An algorithm for evaluating sexual dimorphism is presented based on data arrays of digital analogues of histoenzymatic activity of three types of phosphatases of skin glands from five topographic sites of male and female laboratory rats. Each data array for males and females contained fifteen elements. For this purpose, we used the NumPy library in the Python program. It was found that in six cases the phosphatase activity of males dominates, in four cases sexual parity was revealed, and in five cases the phosphatase activity of females dominates.

general biology and biomathematics, laboratory outbred white rat (Rattus norvegicus var. alba), skin glands, histochemistry, ordinal scale, sexual dimorphism.

Received: August 27, 2021; Accepted: October 6, 2021; Published:  October 11, 2021

How to cite this article: A. B. Kiladze and N. K. Dzhemukhadze, Bioinformatics of sexual dimorphism of histoenzymatic activity in the skin glands of laboratory rats, JP Journal of Biostatistics 18(3) (2021), 429-436. DOI: 10.17654/BS018010429

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