A potential reason for this discrepancy
is the Se concentration of the basal diet (0.10 vs. 0.02
ppm of Se, respectively). The dietary Se level used by
Cantor and Scott (1974) would be deficient, but our level
of 0.10 ppm would be only marginally deficient, if at all.
The basal diet of Patton (2000) contained 0.06 ppm of Se;
Cantor et al. (2000) did not report a level of Se in their
basal diet.