Association Between the Blue Color Intensity of the Skin with Growth Performance and Skin Spottiness in a Blue-Colored Strain of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Table 2: Simple linear correlations between the blue color intensity and the growth performance and spottiness parameters in blue-colored groups of rainbow trout.

Correlation	PBBOT07 (n = 243)	PBBPR09 (n = 200)	PBB07IN (n = 138)
*BCI vs.* BW**	0.1966 **(0.0021)	0.1545 *(0.0289)	0.1809 *( 0.0337)
*BW vs.* Age**	0.1070 ^NS( 0.0962)	0.1275 ^NS(0.0721)	-0.0362 ^NS(0.6731)
*BCI vs.* NDS**	-0.23869 ***(0.0002)	-	0.0435 ^NS(0.6124)
*BCI vs.* DSS**	-0.0626 ^NS(0.3312)	-	0.0833 ^NS(0.3311)

n = Number of Individuals, BCI = Blue Color Intensity on the back, BW = Body Weight, NDS = Number of Dark Spots, DSS = Dark Spots Size. The significance of the correlations were calculated according to Student’s t-test. The exact P-values are indicated in parenthesis. *P < 0.05;**P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, NS = Non-Significant Result.