the effect of temperature and genotype on growth traits, plasma glucose and uric acid in dwarf and normal white leghorn females温度和基因型对经济增长的影响特征,血糖和尿酸在矮和正常的白色里女性.pdfVIP

The effect of temperature and genotype on growth traits, plasma glucose and uric acid in Dwarf and Normal White Leghorn females A.K. BANERJEE A. BORDAS P. MERAT LN.R.A., Laboratoire de Génétique factorielle Centre de Recherches zootechniques F 78350 Jouy-en-Josas Summary Day old White Leghorn female chicks of 7 sire families and two genotypes at the sex-linked dwarfism locus (Dw and dw) were reared on deep litter under normal (around 15-20 °C after 4 weeks) and hot temperature (around 25-30 °C) from 0-18 weeks of age. Body weights at 4, 8, 12 and 18 weeks of age, shank lengths at 12 weeks, plasma glucose and uric acid levels at 18 weeks were measured. Results are as follows : 1) A very highly significant difference between genotypes was obtained in plasma uric acid level at 18 weeks, dwarfs having almost the double values than normals. As expected body weight and shank length differences were very highly significant. A difference for plasma glucose was found significant at 5 p. 100 level only with pooled environments. 2) Plasma uric acid was found to be appreciably elevated in the hot temperature group (increase being relatively more in normals than in dwarfs). Hot temperature had a very highly significant depressent effect on 8 and 12 weeks body weight. The effect was observed to be less significant at 4 weeks while it was non-significant for 18 weeks body weight and for plasma glucose level. 3) Effect of sire family was found to be significant for all the traits measured. No trait showed any genotype X family interaction. 4) Very highly significant interaction between genotype at