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. 2016 Nov 14;4(21):e13011. doi: 10.14814/phy2.13011

Table 3.

Effects of sex (male vs. female) and exercise (wheel vs. no wheel) on home cage activity. Measures were taken at ~1 year (prior to running wheel exposure), ~1.5, and ~2 years of age

Trait Trans N Sex Wheel access Interaction Batch
~Year 1
Home cage activity 59 F 1, 54 = 26.973 F1, 54 = 0.170 F1, 54 = 0.025 F 1, 54 = 0.035
P  < 0.001 P = 0.682 P = 0.874 P = 0.852
Food consumption 59 F 1, 54 = 15.459 F 1, 54 = 0.055 F 1, 54 = 0.416 F 1, 54 = 0.281
P  < 0.001 P = 0.815 P = 0.521 P = 0.598
Water consumption lg10 59 F 1, 54 = 9.912 F 1, 54 = 0.253 F 1, 54 = 7.284 F 1, 54 = 0.249
P  = 0.003 P = 0.617 P  = 0.009 P = 0.620
~Year 1.5
Home cage activity 44 F 1, 39 = 6.070 F 1, 39 = 1.166 F 1, 39 = 10.402 F 1, 39 = 9.860
P  = 0.018 P = 0.287 P  = 0.003 P  = 0.003
Food consumption 44 F 1, 39 = 13.352 F 1, 39 = 11.025 F 1, 39 = 8.609 F 1, 39 = 0.724
P  = 0.001 P  = 0.002 P  = 0.006 P = 0.400
Water consumption 43 F 1, 38 = 10.837 F 1, 38 = 9.618 F 1, 38 = 0.792 F 1, 38 = 4.231
P  = 0.002 P  = 0.004 P = 0.379 P  = 0.047
~Year 2
Home cage activity 45 F 1, 40 = 32.582 F 1, 40 = 9.624 F 1, 40 = 1.815 F 1, 40 = 9.831
P  < 0.001 P  = 0.004 P = 0.186 P  = 0.003
Food consumption 45 F 1, 40 = 3.232 F 1, 40 = 5.452 F 1, 40 = 1.869 F 1, 40 = 1.858
P = 0.080 P  = 0.025 P = 0.179 P = 0.180
Water consumption 44 F 1, 39 = 14.398 F 1, 39 = 4.002 F 1, 39 = 0.009 F 1, 39 = 0.437
P  = 0.001 P = 0.052 P = 0.926 P = 0.512

Statistical significance was judged at < 0.05 (in bold), and all P‐values presented are two‐tailed.