Table 3.

The lake- and trophic niche-based analyses of expression correlations between oral and pharyngeal jaws for seven target genes in the haplochromine cichlids at the end of larval phase

	Oral versus pharyngeal jaws
Gene	Lake Victoria	Lake Malawi	Lake Tanganyika	Herbivores	Carnivores
bapx1	r = 0.801 P < 0.01**	NS	NS	r = 0.827 P < 0.001***	NS
foxq1b	r = 803 P < 0.01**	NS	r = 0.889 P < 0.001***	r = 0.793 P < 0.001***	r = 0.707 P < 0.01**
wnt9b	r = 0.792 P < 0.01**	r = 0.744 P < 0.01**	NS	NS	NS
satb2	r = 0.79 P < 0.01**	NS	NS	NS	r = 0.798 P < 0.001***
fgf8a	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
lbh	r = 0.962 P < 0.001***	r = 0.891 P < 0.001***	r = 0.62 P < 0.05*	r = 0.835 P < 0.001***	r = 0.897 P < 0.001***
prdm1a	r = 0.837 P < 0.001***	NS	NS	r = 0.613 P < 0.01**	NS

Pearson correlation coefficient (r) was used to assess the similarity between expression pattern of the target genes between oral and pharyngeal jaws across the haplochromine species in each lake or trophic niche specialization. NS indicates no significant expression correlation between the two jaw types in a given comparison