Energy intake, initial body mass, body-mass increment, final body mass, resting metabolic rate (RMR), body temperature, carcass fat content, pectoral muscle mass, mass of small intestines, intestinal uptake rate of L-proline, and locomotor activity of nestlings from the three experimental groups. Means (or least-square means from ANCOVA) ±SE were compared with ANOVA (*), ANCOVA (§), or Kruskall-Wallis test (‡). For all tests, P values and critical levels of significance α are calculated by means of the false-discovery-rate procedure (FDR; k = 11). Means marked with superscript letters (a, b) differ significantly according to least- significant-difference (LSD) test.
Energy intake, initial body mass, body-mass increment, final body mass, resting metabolic rate (RMR), body temperature, carcass fat content, pectoral muscle mass, mass of small intestines, intestinal uptake rate of L-proline, and locomotor activity of nestlings from the three experimental groups. Means (or least-square means from ANCOVA) ±SE were compared with ANOVA (*), ANCOVA (§), or Kruskall-Wallis test (‡). For all tests, P values and critical levels of significance α are calculated by means of the false-discovery-rate procedure (FDR; k = 11). Means marked with superscript letters (a, b) differ significantly according to least- significant-difference (LSD) test.
