Table 3.

The wool thickness and medullation features based on the color of the animals. The values in bold font denote $P<\mathrm{0.05}$.

Item	Light wool	Dark wool	$F$ value	$P$ value
	LSM $\pm$ SE	LSM $\pm$ SE
Mean fiber diameter (MFD, $\mathrm{\mu }\mathrm{m}$)	23.45 $\pm$ 1.22	27.16 $\pm$ 0.89	6.060	0.026
Standard deviation of the MFD (SD)	4.83 $\pm$ 0.21	5.36 $\pm$ 0.15	4.038	0.062
Coefficient of variation of the MFD (CV, %)	21.00 $\pm$ 0.95	19.78 $\pm$ 0.69	1.068	0.317
Comfort factor (CF, %)	85.13 $\pm$ 6.30	70.45 $\pm$ 4.59	3.545	0.078
Prickling factor (PF, %)	14.87 $\pm$ 6.30	29.55 $\pm$ 4.59	3.545	0.078
MFD of non-medullated fibers ($\mathrm{\mu }\mathrm{m}$)	21.19 $\pm$ 1.13	22.20 $\pm$ 0.83	0.520	0.481
SD of non-medullated fibers	4.80 $\pm$ 0.39	4.25 $\pm$ 0.28	1.280	0.275
CV of non-medullated fibers (%)	22.00 $\pm$ 1.27	19.03 $\pm$ 0.93	3.568	0.077
MFD of discontinuous medullated fibers	24.35 $\pm$ 1.14	27.43 $\pm$ 0.83	4.757	0.044
SD of discontinuous medullated fibers	3.63 $\pm$ 0.27	4.06 $\pm$ 0.19	1.719	0.208
CV of discontinuous medullated fibers (%)	14.87 $\pm$ 0.93	14.76 $\pm$ 0.68	0.010	0.921
MFD of continuous medullated fibers ($\mathrm{\mu }\mathrm{m}$)	28.79 $\pm$ 1.17	32.27 $\pm$ 0.86	5.729	0.029
SD of continuous medullated fibers	3.42 $\pm$ 0.41	4.62 $\pm$ 0.30	5.641	0.030
CV of continuous medullated fibers (%)	11.76 $\pm$ 1.25	14.36 $\pm$ 0.91	2.837	0.111
Medullation (%)	58.39 $\pm$ 4.48	79.44 $\pm$ 3.27	14.391	0.002
Continuous medullated fibers (%)	16.90 $\pm$ 4.53	21.33 $\pm$ 3.30	0.623	0.441
Discontinuous medullated fibers (%)	41.49 $\pm$ 4.93	58.11 $\pm$ 3.59	7.432	0.015
Non-medullated fibers (%)	41.61 $\pm$ 4.48	20.56 $\pm$ 3.27	14.395	0.002

LSM represents the least squares mean, and SE represents the standard error.