Assessment of Tools for Marker-Assisted Selection in a Marine Commercial Species: Significant Association between MSTN-1 Gene Polymorphism and Growth Traits

Table 4

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) for weight, length, and condition index within genotypes for different age groups in S. aurata. Breeders are considered without respect to gender.

Locus		Phenotypic variable
			W-B	L-B	C-B	W-J120	L-J120	C-J120	W-A635	L-A635	C-A635	W-A819	L-A819	C-A819
IGF-I-P	TaqI	F	0.325	0.492	0.758	0.046	0.243	4.227	3.328	3.101	1.227	1.457	1.408	1.137
		P	0.807	0.689	0.520	0.996	0.913	0.003^b	0.040^a	0.049^a	0.297	0.220	0.236	0.343
		N	131	131	131	148	148	148	108	108	108	120	120	120
MSTN1_A	HaeIII	F	8.010	8.578	0.614	0.177	0.105	0.117	0.665	0.807	0.297	3.521	2.832	2.546
		P	0.005^b	0.004^b	0.435	0.675	0.675	0.732	0.417	0.371	0.587	0.063	0.095	0.113
		N	131	131	131	148	148	148	108	108	108	120	120	120
	DraI	F	0.303	0.712	0.290	0.012	0.003	1.430	0.422	1.859	11.918	—	—	—
		P	0.583	0.400	0.591	0.912	0.960	0.234	0.518	0.176	0.001^b	—	—	—
		N	131	131	131	148	148	148	108	108	108	120	120	120
MSTN1_B	HaeIII	F	4.236	3.723	0.440	5.103	3.924	0.047	4.747	3.292	4.510	0.518	0.144	2.929
		P	0.017^a	0.027^a	0.645	0.007^b	0.022^a	0.954	0.011^a	0.041^a	0.013^a	0.597	0.866	0.057
		N	131	131	131	148	148	148	108	108	108	118	118	118
PRL_1	EcoRV	F	1.534	1.779	0.416	0.182	0.136	1.255	1.587	1.380	3.429	2.111	2.043	0.573
		P	0.220	0.173	0.660	0.834	0.873	0.288	0.197	0.253	0.020^a	0.126	0.134	0.565
		N	131	131	131	148	148	148	108	108	108	120	120	120
	BspLU11I	F	1.123	1.199	0.415	0.453	0.463	0.716	2.086	1.882	1.513	0.944	1.019	0.365
		P	0.352	0.313	0.838	0.810	0.803	0.613	0.061	0.102	0.181	0.467	0.417	0.900
		N	131	131	131	148	148	148	108	108	108	120	120	120
PRL_3_4	FokI	F	0.030	0.026	0.103	1.022	1.395	0.400	0.437	0.122	1.230	0.416	0.336	0.653
		P	0.97	0.974	0.902	0.362	0.251	0.671	0.647	0.885	0.297	0.661	0.715	0.522
		N	131	131	131	147	147	147	107	107	108	119	119	119

W-, L-, and C-: body weight, fork length, and condition index, respectively; B: breeders; J120: juveniles sampled 120 days after hatching; A635: adults sampled 635 days after hatching; A819 Adults sampled 819 days after hatching; F: F value; P: P value; N: number of individuals analyzed.
^aSignificant at 𝛼=0.05.
^bSignificant at 𝛼_Bonferroni = 0.00714.