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Table 1 Correlations between slopes of the sperm ultrastructures across 10 species

From: Comparative analysis of mammalian sperm ultrastructure reveals relationships between sperm morphology, mitochondrial functions and motility

Ultrastructure name

ODFs

Axonome

FS

MS

odf1

odf2

odf3

odf4

odf5

odf6

odf7

odf8

odf9

t-odf area

Axonome

−0.07

             

FS

0.11

0.51

            

MS

−0.79**

−0.32

− 0.27

           

odf1

0.98***

0.16

0.04

−0.87***

          

odf2

0.97***

0.04

−0.14

−0.78**

0.95***

         

odf3

0.91***

0.04

0.05

− 0.92**

0.94***

0.92***

        

odf4

0.98***

0.04

−0.14

− 0.78**

0.94***

0.97***

0.93***

       

odf5

0.99***

0.1

−0.02

− 0.82**

0.99***

0.96***

0.92***

0.95***

      

odf6

0.99***

0.11

−0.01

− 0.83**

0.99***

0.97***

0.93***

0.96***

1***

     

odf7

0.95***

0

−0.09

− 0.81**

0.92***

0.98***

0.95***

0.98***

0.93***

0.94***

    

odf8

0.82**

0.08

0.07

−0.89**

0.88***

0.87***

0.94***

0.83***

0.86***

0.87***

0.89***

   

odf9

0.96***

0.12

−0.16

−0.74*

0.92***

0.99***

0.88***

0.96***

0.93***

0.94***

0.96***

0.8**

  

t-odf area

0.84**

−0.22

−0.08

−0.65*

0.81***

0.89***

0.83***

0.86***

0.83***

0.85**

0.92***

0.81**

0.85**

 
  1. *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001. Analyses with autocorrelation between variables were not included in the table.t-odf area = (odf1–9) total area