Table 5.

Results of a Spearman’s rank correlation analysis used to identify significant associations between testicular oocyte prevalence or severity and transcript abundance in the spring

	TO prevalence	Correlation coefficient (r)	p value
Testis Reproductive	42sp43	0.40	0.027
	hsp71	−0.40	0.027
	TO severity	Correlation coefficient (r)	p value
Testis Reproductive	42sp43	0.59	0.001
	zp3	0.50	0.004
	up1	0.49	0.005
	sox11	0.44	0.014
	dmrt2	0.41	0.022
	zpax	0.41	0.022
	up2	0.40	0.025
	zp4	0.39	0.029
	star	0.39	0.029
	3bhd	0.39	0.032
	dmrt3	0.39	0.032
	cyp p450 11b	0.38	0.034
	ara	0.37	0.043
Testis Immune	afabp	0.36	0.045
	socs3	0.39	0.028
	tgfb2	0.38	0.037
	tollip	−0.40	0.027

Results were statistically significant at p value < 0.05