Table 4 Texture characteristics of pectoral muscle of Pharaoh and Japanese quails slaughtered at 6 weeks of age.

Trait	Genotype		Sex		SEM	P values
Trait	Pharaoh quail	Japanese quail	Male	Female	SEM	G	S	G × S
WB shear force (N)	23.12	22.96	22.21	23.87	0.776	0.923	0.305	0.733
Cutting work (J)	0.14^b	0.20^a	0.16	0.17	0.008	0.001	0.509	0.667
Hardness (N)	18.02^a	15.10^b	17.29	15.83	0.661	0.025	0.249	0.355
Cohesiveness	0.35	0.29	0.33	0.31	0.009	0.067	0.417	0.799
Springiness (cm)	1.32^b	1.44^a	1.35	1.41*	0.017	0.001	0.026	0.066
Chewiness (N × cm)	8.40^a	6.69^b	8.09	7.00	0.414	0.037	0.176	0.465
Gumminess (N)	6.41^a	4.48^b	5.81	5.08	0.334	0.002	0.234	0.409

S sex; G genotype; S × G interaction between genotype and sex; SEM standard error of the mean. n = 20 for genotype or sex, 10 males and 10 females within a given genotype.
^a,bAre the means with different superscripts are statistically different between Pharaoh and Japanese quail P value < 0.05; * statistical differences between males and females P value < 0.05.

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