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Table 1 Salmon performance and plasma cortisol

From: Gene expression in Atlantic salmon skin in response to infection with the parasitic copepod Lepeophtheirus salmonis, cortisol implant, and their combination

	C0	CL	SL	S0
Weight, g	47.9 ± 10.0^a	53.2 ± 11.3^a	64.1 ± 13.1^b	51.9 ± 10.6^b
Condition factor¹	0.92^a	0.89^a	0.94^b	0.97^b
Lice number, per fish	0	26.5 ± 1.6	25.5 ± 1.3	0
Plasma cortisol, ng/ml	858.2 ± 36.3^a	982.6 ± 45.6^a	128.1 ± 22.7^b	19.1 ± 9.7^b
Sodium (Na+), mM	160.5^ab	163.9^b	156.6^a	156.9^a
Glucose, mM	5.35^b	5.64^b	4.09^a	4.25^a

¹Calculated as weight, g × 100/(length, cm)³
Different superscript letters denote significant group differences calculated by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey-Kramer test for post hoc comparisons (p < 0.05)

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