Developmental and Tissue Patterns of the Basal Expression of Chicken Avian β-Defensins

Table 2

Pearson correlation among GI tract tissues, age of chickens, and AvBDs.

	Age	AvBD1	AvBD2	AvBD3	AvBD4	AvBD5	AvBD6	AvBD7	AvBD8	AvBD9	AvBD10	AvBD12	AvBD13	AvBD14
Tissue	0.000	0.096	-0.180	-0.242	0.017	-0.626	0.006	-0.082	-0.488	-0.322	0.380	0.055	-0.564	-0.626
Age		-0.445	-0.202	-0.037	-0.109	-0.139	-0.166	-0.187	0.354	-0.103	-0.176	-0.292	0.034	-0.307
AvBD1			0.672	0.420	0.743	-0.080	0.679	0.763	-0.289	-0.132	0.189	0.385	-0.169	-0.049
AvBD2				0.748	0.819	-0.010	0.668	0.924	-0.018	-0.073	0.353	0.204	-0.108	0.019
AvBD3					0.755	0.126	0.779	0.773	-0.053	-0.160	0.221	0.090	-0.054	0.085
AvBD4						-0.162	0.807	0.870	-0.099	-0.134	0.179	0.338	-0.169	-0.095
AvBD5							-0.138	-0.064	0.172	0.182	-0.102	-0.300	0.637	0.691
AvBD6								0.817	-0.236	-0.250	0.144	0.239	-0.266	-0.162
AvBD7									-0.094	-0.105	0.362	0.262	-0.130	-0.009
AvBD8										0.520	-0.176	-0.119	0.568	0.244
AvBD9											-0.210	-0.181	0.698	0.463
AvBD10												-0.047	-0.274	-0.136
AvBD12													-0.236	0.074
AvBD13														0.702

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