. 2017 Jan 18;17:2. doi: 10.1186/s12899-017-0028-5

Table 1.

Branchial and hepatic mRNA levels in Atlantic salmon maintained in FW from March 3 through July 10

Target Gene	March 3	April 8	May 1	July 10
Gill
igfbp4	1.00 ± 0.08^b	1.06 ± 0.20^b	1.49 ± 0.15^a,b	1.61 ± 0.10^a
igfbp5a	1.00 ± 0.15^a,b	0.79 ± 0.14^b	1.51 ± 0.18^a	0.73 ± 0.05^b
igfbp5b1	1.00 ± 0.06^a,b	0.47 ± 0.06^c	1.17 ± 0.14^a	0.70 ± 0.09^b,c
igfbp5b2	1.00 ± 0.12^a,b	0.57 ± 0.07^c	1.13 ± 0.06^a	0.76 ± 0.05^b,c
Liver
ghr1	1.00 ± 0.30^b	2.75 ± 0.33^a	1.09 ± 0.16^b	0.38 ± 0.08^b
igf1	1.00 ± 0.21^b	3.04 ± 0.71^a	3.49 ± 0.15^a	3.25 ± 0.35^a
igf2	1.00 ± 0.27	0.91 ± 0.31	0.56 ± 0.11	0.46 ± 0.07
igfbp1a1	1.00 ± 0.45	0.69 ± 0.37	0.10 ± 0.04	0.02 ± 0.004
igfbp1b1	1.00 ± 0.21^b	2.50 ± 0.47^a	1.05 ± 0.14^b	0.36 ± 0.02^b
igfbp1b2	1.00 ± 0.16^b	5.75 ± 1.26^a	2.01 ± 0.27^b	0.21 ± 0.04^b
igfbp2a	1.00 ± 0.10	0.83 ± 0.07	0.74 ± 0.06	0.73 ± 0.07
igfbp2b1	1.00 ± 0.10^a	0.51 ± 0.06^b	0.44 ± 0.05^b	0.44 ± 0.03^b
igfbp2b2	1.00 ± 0.12	1.29 ± 0.15	0.97 ± 0.09	0.90 ± 0.02

Expression levels are presented as a fold-change from the March 3 group. Means ± S.E.M. (n = 8). For a given transcript, means not sharing the same superscript letter are significantly different (one-way ANOVA, Tukey’s HSD test, P < 0.05)