TABLE 2.

Comparison of the silkworm economic traits.

Genotype	Female			Male
	Whole cocoon weight (g)	Cocoon shell weight (g)	Cocoon shell rate (%)	Whole cocoon weight (g)	Cocoon shell weight (g)	Cocoon shell rate (%)
WT	1.127 ± 0.046	0.118 ± 0.008	10.45 ± 0.003	0.890 ± 0.030	0.113 ± 0.011	12.65 ± 0.005
Ser-2A-hEGF	1.062 ± 0.049 a	0.105 ± 0.007 a	9.91 ± 0.004 a	0.825 ± 0.047 a	0.097 ± 0.011 a	11.66 ± 0.007 a
Ser-T-hEGF	1.023 ± 0.047 a	0.107 ± 0.012 a	10.42 ± 0.011 a	0.754 ± 0.046 a	0.097 ± 0.013 a	12.95 ± 0.016 a
Ser-2A-EGFP	0.913 ± 0.038 a	0.107 ± 0.008 a	10.17 ± 0.005 a	0.766 ± 0.041 a	0.092 ± 0.010 a	12.49 ± 0.006 a

Note. Female and male animals were separated and used for statistics. The data shown are mean ± S.D. (n = 30). The asterisks stand for significance with p < 0.05.

^aSignificance between WT and transformed lines.