TABLE 1.
Test statistics for ANOVAs performed on individual amino acids to test differences between soft tissue and exoskeleton amino acid content.
| Amino acid | (A) Protein proportion | (B) Mass proportion | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| df | rdf | MSE | F | p | df | rdf | MSE | F | p | |
| Ala | 1 | 14.2 | w | 31.3 | <.001 | 1 | 24 | 0.7 | 14.8 | <.001 |
| Arg | 1 | 24 | 1.3 | 58.6 | <.001 | 1 | 12.7 | w | 105.05 | <.001 |
| Asp | 1 | 14.4 | w | 19.9 | <.001 | 1 | 14.6 | w | 121 | <.001 |
| Glu | 1 | 24 | 4.9 | 44.1 | <.001 | 1 | 14.9 | w | 156.3 | <.001 |
| Gly | 1 | 13.3 | w | 7.8 | <.001 | 1 | 24 | 0.7 | 15.0 | <.001 |
| His | 1 | 14.3 | w | 12.8 | <.001 | 1 | 24 | 0.09 | 31.8 | <.001 |
| Ile | 1 | 24 | 0.7 | 8.5 | <.001 | 1 | 24 | 0.2 | 74.1 | <.001 |
| Leu | 1 | 24 | 4.7 | 6.0 | <.001 | 1 | 24 | 0.8 | 51.1 | <.001 |
| Lys | 1 | 16.7 | w | 206.3 | <.001 | 1 | 12.8 | w | 150.5 | <.001 |
| Met | 1 | 24 | 0.2 | 89.8 | <.001 | 1 | 12.9 | w | 143.1 | <.001 |
| Phe | 1 | 13.7 | w | 6.0 | <.001 | 1 | 14.3 | w | 96.6 | <.001 |
| Pro | 1 | 17.9 | w | 31.2 | <.001 | 1 | 24 | 0.5 | 15.2 | <.001 |
| Ser | 1 | 24 | 0.6 | 10.6 | <.001 | 1 | 16.5 | w | 58.5 | <.001 |
| Thr | 1 | 17.3 | w | 38.9 | <.001 | 1 | 17.2 | w | 87.6 | <.001 |
| Tyr | 1 | 17.2 | w | 9.1 | <.001 | 1 | 15.6 | w | 24.5 | <.001 |
| Val | 1 | 15.7 | w | 39.2 | <.001 | 1 | 24 | 0.3 | 33.6 | <.001 |
Note: Amino acid data were calculated as (A) a proportion of total protein (mg/100 mg protein) and (B) as a proportion of dry mass (mg/100 mg dry mass). (w) in the MSE column indicates Welch's ANOVA and hence no MSE value.