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Table 5.

MANCOVA comparison of the intercepts of the regression lines of expression between different muscle-specific protein genes (all temperatures)

	MyHC	TnT	TnI	CK-M	TnC
α-act	NS	P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001
MyHC		P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001
TnT			P<0.01	P<0.001	P<0.001
TnI				P<0.001	P<0.001
CK-M					NS

	MyHC	TnT	TnI	CK-M	TnC
α-act	NS	P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001
MyHC		P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001	P<0.001
TnT			P<0.01	P<0.001	P<0.001
TnI				P<0.001	P<0.001
CK-M					NS

MANCOVA, multivariate analysis of covariance

NS, not significant

α-actin, skeletal α-actin; MyHC, myosin heavy chain; TnT, troponin T; TnI, troponin I; CK-M,muscle creatine kinase; TnC, troponin C