. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2012 Apr 26;62(1):18–26. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.04.012

Table 2.

Female whole brain mRNA levels normalized to actin.

Gene	Mouthbrooding	Food Deprived	Fed	P value
gnrh1	0.0282 ± 0.0113	0.0174 ± 0.00651	0.0269 ± 0.0105	0.0514
gnrh2	0.00223 ± 0.000811	0.00246 ± 0.000748	0.00216 ± 0.000752	0.789
gnrhr2	0.00132 ± 0.000239	0.00124 ± 0.000474	0.000881 ± 0.000390	0.0350
hcrt	0.00332 ± 0.00132	0.00357 ± 0.00144	0.00343 ± 0.000914	0.914
npyry8b	0.00161 ± 0.000480	0.00108 ± 0.000243	0.00135 ± 0.000230	0.0474
npyry8c	0.0102 ± 0.00300	0.00865 ± 0.00313	0.00644 ± 0.000853	0.0142
cck	0.0397 ± 0.0108	0.0402 ± 0.0173	0.0339 ± 0.00747	0.528

Values reported as mean ± SD (N = 10 Mouthbrooding, 9 Food Deprived, 8 Fed). One-way ANOVA test and Tukey post hoc test used for gnrh1, cck, and hcrt. Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Dunn’s post hoc test used for gnrh2, gnrhr2, npyry8b, npyry8c