Table 8 Dimensions of the femur and tibia 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	S × G
Femur dimensions (mm)
GL	40.34	39.86	39.48	40.72*	0.199	0.165	0.001	0.037
ML	38.22	38.25	37.57	38.90*	0.201	0.925	0.001	0.024
GB	6.86^a	6.37^b	6.59	6.64	0.092	0.007	0.768	0.398
GD	3.76^a	3.38^b	3.53	3.61	0.081	0.034	0.624	0.884
SM	2.95^a	2.61^b	2.81	2.75	0.047	0.001	0.484	0.234
GC	5.94^a	5.37^b	5.55	5.77	0.084	0.001	0.122	0.349
GE	4.61^a	4.28^b	4.31	4.58	0.076	0.029	0.074	0.403
Tibia dimensions (mm)
GL	49.42^b	50.49^a	49.42	50.49*	0.297	0.049	0.047	0.011
AL	47.74^b	48.39^a	47.83	48.30	0.158	0.027	0.098	0.015
GD	7.40^a	6.79^b	7.08	7.12	0.079	< 0.001	0.792	0.317
SB	2.70^a	2.48^b	2.62	2.56	0.043	0.007	0.474	0.067
SD	5.05^a	4.69^b	4.93	4.81	0.066	0.005	0.321	0.284
DD	4.95^a	4.54^b	4.68	4.81	0.057	< 0.001	0.198	0.139

Femur dimensions: GL, greatest length; ML, medial length; GB, greatest breadth of proximal end; GD, greatest depth of proximal end; SM, smallest breadth of the corpus; GC, greatest breadth of the distal end; GE, greatest depth of distal end. Tibia dimensions: GL, greatest length; AL, axial length; GD, greatest diagonal of the proximal end; SB, smallest breadth of the corpus; SD, greatest breadth of the distal end; DD, greatest depth of the distal end.
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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