## 3 Results
### Experiment 2 in Kinshasa, Western Lovlands of DR Congo
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**Strain** & **Sex** & **\# of Fish** & **FBW** & **CF** & **HSI** & **CSI** & **\# of Maps** & **WG** & **H** & **FCR** & **SUR** & **PER** & **LRR** \\ \hline GPT C & - & - & 39 & 77.9 \(\pm\) 2.52 & 0.2 \(\pm\) 0.54 & 10.8 \(\pm\) 3.8 & 7.2 \(\pm\) 6.7 & 3 & 99.0 \(\pm\) 4.44 & 99.4 \(\pm\) 2.5 & 15.0 \(\pm\) 0.14 & 97.6 \(\pm\) 0.15 & 8.7 \(\pm\) 2.6 \\ GPT R & - & 42 & 60.0 \(\pm\) 2.30 & 1.8 \(\pm\) 0.25 & 8.5 \(\pm\) 3.5 & 7.9 \(\pm\) 4.3 & 43.2 \(\pm\) 10.33 & 79.0 \(\pm\) 6.10 & 2.0 \(\pm\) 0.49 & 93.3 \(\pm\) 2.7 & 13.0 \(\pm\) 0.26 & 22.6 \(\pm\) 4.3 \\ Thange & - & 42 & 67.2 \(\pm\) 14.5 & 19.3 \(\pm\) 0.34 & 7.1 \(\pm\) 2.3 & 7.9 \(\pm\) 7.1 & 3 & 28.1 \(\pm\) 0.8\({}^{\circ}\) & 63.0 \(\pm\) 1.3\({}^{\circ}\) & 22.2 \(\pm\) 0.1\({}^{\circ}\) & 93.3 \(\pm\) 6.7\({}^{\circ}\) & 13.1 \(\pm\) 0.03 & 19.4 \(\pm\) 0.06 \\ - & Female & 66 & 48.3 \(\pm\) 2.7 & 19.5 \(\pm\) 0.4 & 7.6 \(\pm\) 3.1 & 22.2 \(\pm\) 6.4 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ - & Male & 57 & 37.6 \(\pm\) 18.9 & 19.9 \(\pm\) 0.2 & 9.8 \(\pm\) 3.5 & 43.8 \(\pm\) 18.5 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ GPT C & Female & 21 & 68.1 \(\pm\) 25.0 & 20.6 \(\pm\) 0.6 & 30.7 \(\pm\) 37.6 & 19.5 \(\pm\) 7.5 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ Male & 18 & 98.3 \(\pm\) 19.9 & 2.0 \(\pm\) 0.2 & 16.2 \(\pm\) 2.8\({}^{\circ}\) & 47.2 \(\pm\) 2.2 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ GIFT\_RA & Female & 24 & 43.3 \(\pm\) 11.1 & 17.7 \(\pm\) 0.2 & 6.3 \(\pm\) 22.9 & 10.9 \(\pm\) 3.9 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ Male & 18 & 82.3 \(\pm\) 14.1 & 18.0 \(\pm\) 10.4 & 3.0 \(\pm\) 3.4 & 48.1 \(\pm\) 1.7 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ Thange & Female & 21 & 34.3 \(\pm\) 7.0 & 19.4 \(\pm\) 0.4 & 7.1 \(\pm\) 2.6 \({}^{\circ}\) & 42.7 \(\pm\) 7.5 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ Male & 21 & 60.1 \(\pm\) 8.5\({}^{\circ}\) & 19.0 \(\pm\) 0.4 & 7.2 \(\pm\) 21.7 & 36.6 \(\pm\) 1.2 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} \({}^{\dagger}\): Data within the same column with different superscript letters are significantly different (see Table 5).  
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Table 6: Experiment 2 in Kinshasa, western lowlands DR Congo—mean \(\pm\) standard deviation for fish and parameters for which there were individual values such as initial body weight (IBW), final body weight (FBW), condition factor (CF), hepato-somatic index (%) (HSI), gonado-somatic index (%) (GSI) organized by strain (GIFT* C= GIFT Congo Future; GIFT* C= GIFT RATA1,BIB, and Thange) and sex (female and male); and parameters for which there were only mean values for having such as initial body weight (IBW), weight gain (WG), red intake (FI), feed conversion ratio (FCR), survival rate (%) (SUR), protein efficiency ratio (PER), and lipid efficiency ratio (LER) organized by strain \({}^{\dagger}\). \begin{table}
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**Treatments** & **Dry Matter (\%)** & **Crude Protein (\% dm)** & **Ash (\% dm)** & **Gross Energy (Ocal/g dm)** & **Crude Lipid (\% dm)** & **Total Carbohydrate (\% dm)** \\ \hline Thange & 21.32 \(\pm\) 0.91 & 38.54 \(\pm\) 2.98 & 8.81 \(\pm\) 1.52 \({}^{\circ}\) & 4.38 \(\pm\) 0.22 & 14.39 \(\pm\) 0.38 & 38.27 \(\pm\) 4.66 \\ GIFT-RATA1 BI & 20.70 \(\pm\) 1.38 & 42.06 \(\pm\) 6.31 & 8.33 \(\pm\) 0.75 \({}^{\circ}\) & 4.49 \(\pm\) 0.26 & 20.28 \(\pm\) 0.93 & 29.34 \(\pm\) 7.22 \\ GIFT-Congo Future & 21.59 \(\pm\) 1.32 & 41.41 \(\pm\) 5.17 & 6.33 \(\pm\) 0.29 \({}^{\circ}\) & 4.53 \(\pm\) 0.06 & 20.55 \(\pm\) 1.50 & 31.71 \(\pm\) 3.81 \\ \(\mu\)-Value & 0.676 & 0.68 & 0.0462 & 0.65 & 0.44 & 0.0991 \\ Pooled SEM & 0.70 & 2.895 & 0.57 & 0.11 & 3.58 & 2.48 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} \({}^{\dagger}\): Data within the same column with different superscript letters are significantly different (see Table 5).  
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Table 7: Experiment 2 in Kinshasa, western lowlands DR Congo—whole body composition of Nile tilapia (Orexhuss initials) fingerlings of the “Thange”, GIFT-RATA1 BI and GIFT- Congo Future strains fed a commercial feed in Kinshasa, western lowlands highlands DR Congo \({}^{\dagger}\).