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Table 3 Effects of sex, colour and season (of behavioural testing) on ZM, "novel-cage test" and shuttlebox variables.

From: Effects of environmental and physiological covariates on sex differences in unconditioned and conditioned anxiety and fear in a large sample of genetically heterogeneous (N/Nih-HS) rats

Variable

 

Sex

Colour

Season

Sex × Colour

Sex × Season

Colour × Season

Sex × Colour × Season

ZM-E

F =

P =

62.0

< .001

2.1

n.s.

6.6

< .001

1.1

n.s.

1.7

n.s.

0.9

n.s.

0.5

n.s.

ZM-T

F =

P =

35.0

< .001

2.3

n.s.

13.7

< .001

0.48

n.s.

1.0

n.s.

0.9

n.s.

1.0

n.s.

ZM-SAP

F =

P =

42.8

< .001

4.9

< .001

7.6

< .001

1.8

n.s.

1.0

n.s.

1.0

n.s.

1.4

n.s.

NACT-DIST5

F =

P =

59.5

< .001

4.4

< .001

10.0

< .001

0.4

n.s.

4.2

< .05

1.2

n.s.

0.6

n.s.

NACT-DIST30

F =

P =

5.1

< .05

5.0

< .001

2.7

n.s.

0.8

n.s.

1.7

n.s.

0.7

n.s.

0.6

n.s.

FREEZ

F =

P =

51.2

< .001

6.0

< .001

17.2

< .001

0.7

n.s.

1.3

n.s.

0.5

n.s.

2.0

< .05

SHAV-ITC

F =

P =

47.7

< .001

3.6

< .01

3.8

< .05

2.5

< .05

4.5

< .05

0.7

n.s.

1.9

n.s.

  1. Factorial ANOVA analyses, "2 sex × 5 colour × 3 season", for ZM test, novel-cage activity and shuttlebox variables. See Table 1 for other details and for variable symbols.