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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2009 May 3;163(3):306–317. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.04.028

Table 2.

Pairwise correlations for seasonal transcript levels in the pituitary of female and male bass collected from the St John’s River

Females
BW length gonad GSI LHβ FSHβ GTHα GH ERα ERβb ERβa
BW 1
Length ***0.960 1
Gonad 0.592*** 0.552** 1
GSI 0.294 0.272 0.913*** 1
LHβ 0.321* 0.329* 0.738*** 0.798*** 1
FSHβ 0.120 0.162 0.483*** 0.600*** 0.886*** 1
GTHα 0.144 0.162 0.295 0.370* 0.564*** 0.478*** 1
GH 0.168 0.231 0.443*** 0.458*** 0.741*** 0.838*** 0.391* 1
ERα 0.200 0.193 0.568*** 0.582*** 0.624*** 0.398* 0.188 0.312 1
ERβb 0.100 0.124 0.443*** 0.485*** 0.600*** 0.476*** 0.327* 0.357* 0.847*** 1
ERβa 0.188 0.155 0.270 0.219 0.239 0.036 0.221 0.048 0.625*** 0.618*** 1
Males
BW length gonad GSI LHβ FSHβ GTHα GH ERα ERβb ERβa
BW 1
Length 0.980*** 1
Gonad 0.205 0.086 1
GSI −.135 −0.187 0.812*** 1
LHβ −0.044 −0.051 0.274 0.355* 1
FSHβ −0.021 −0.002 0.100 0.253 0.890*** 1
GTHα 0.242 0.178 0.428* 0.185 0.475*** 0.222 1
GH −0.142 −0.044 −0.336* −0.215 0.360* 0.457** 0.083 1
ERα −0.040 −0.021 0.118 0.331* 0.805*** 0.836*** 0.031 0.201 1
ERβb −0.038 0.074 −0.205 −0.029 0.481** 0.637*** 0.009 0.751*** 0.453** 1
ERβa −0.014 0.030 0.008 0.148 0.812*** 0.792*** 0.350* 0.664*** 0.695*** 0.666*** 1
*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001