Fig. 3.

Mean (± SEM) gonadal mRNA expression of INHBA (A, B), INHBB (C, D), INHA (E, F), FST (G, H), GDF9 (I, J), PCNA (K, L), FOXL2 (M, N), CYP19A1 (O, P) in female (A, C, E, G, I, K, M, and O) and male (B, D, F, H, J, L, N, and P) alligators. Days after hatching: black bars = 7, diagonal lined bars = 30, white bars = 90, crosshatched bars = 150. All sample means were normalized using ribosomal protein L8 (RPL8) expression. Different letters above the bars of each graph of mRNA transcript levels indicate statistical significance at p < 0.05 across both ages and sexes.