extremely significantp=0.0001
Sea cucumbers treated with AjKiss1b-10 for 40 days exhibited weight loss (p=0.0583, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test, as shown in Figure 7E ) and extremely significant intestinal degeneration (p=0.0001, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test, as shown in Figure 7F,G ), which are characteristic phenotypes of aestivating A. japonicus ( Wang et al., 2015 ).