The colour was not significantly different in controls and experiments.

Thanks maxxpf.Experimentals was some slang, sorry for that.

Now, would only IN be correct or also BETWEEN?

If you say BETWEEN controls and experiments I would understand that the controls and the experiments didn't differ, therefore IN is correct.

@3: Danke, aber es soll eben heissen, dass sie NICHT unterschiedlich sind.
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I guess I need some mother tongues for this. It would be helpful since I need it frequently.

Here some more from the manuscript:

They were significantly different from the others.

The colour was significantly different in animals with mediated pigments than equivalently pigmented ones.

The colour was not significantly different in experimental animals with their respective controls.

The colour of animals A was significantly different than that of animals B.

Do you have the German version? I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

Your version is corect:

difference ... between:
There was no sig. color difference between control and exp.

color was different/blue/cold/... in :
The colour was not significantly different in controls and experimentals.

And correct would be correcter than corect :-/

1) They were significantly different from the others.
Sie waren signifikant unterschiedlich von den anderen.

2) The colour was significantly different in animals with spots than equivalently tainted controls
Die Farbe war signifikant unterschiedlich zwischen Tieren mit Tupfen und entsprechend gefaerbten Kontrollen.

3) The colour was not significantly different in experimental animals with their respective controls.
Die Farbe war nicht signifikant unterschiedlich zwischen exp. Tieren und ihren jeweiligen Kontrollen.

4) The colour of animals A was significantly different than that of animals B.
Die Farbe der Tiere A war signifikant unterschiedlich von der der Tiere B.


(Sorry about the pigment stuff in 2) earlier. I just needed to change the text to something else so that the actual author wouldn't be able to recognize it.)

4- (analog zu 1) different from that ....

Mein Vorschlag:

1) They differed significantly from the others.
Sie waren signifikant unterschiedlich von den anderen.

2) The colour in animals with spots differed significantly from correspondingly tainted controls
Die Farbe war signifikant unterschiedlich zwischen Tieren mit Tupfen und entsprechend gefaerbten Kontrollen.

3) The colour in experimental animals was not significantly different from their respective controls.
Die Farbe war nicht signifikant unterschiedlich zwischen exp. Tieren und ihren jeweiligen Kontrollen.

4) The colour of animals A was significantly different from that of animals B.
Die Farbe der Tiere A war signifikant unterschiedlich von der der Tiere B.

@wor:
Thanks for your help. I only found it after posting 8.
So it would be

- a difference between control animals and experimental animals
and
- something is different in control animals and experimental animals.

There are no constructions with difference/different possible at all using from or than? (Just to make sure, and I will ban them from my brain forever and ever and ever)

@dude:
Also many thanks.

The control animals are different from the exp. animals.
but (like above)
Some attribute (of the animals) is different in A animals and B animals.

Now I would like to know what "Kontrollen" are in this context.

Dude's suggestions are OK. :-))

Kontrollen: here the control group (animals) or generally control experiments

@ wor, nice try, but I still don't get it. It must be a little more complicated than simply "control." :-))

@14: Hi Helmi.
(I always wondered whether this is your real name since we always considered our neighbor the only bearer of it...)

Kontrollen would be the 'standard', what you compare to. Often this would be untreated or sham treated animals. But this is a question that leads deeply into statistics and philosophy (and biology, medicine etc). And forget the colour stuff, it is just an attribute that I made up.

And sorry for pestering: Since we have to add one sentence like this to the other, I would like to know ALL grammarwise correct versions.

So, these are right, you say:
A differed significantly from B.
A was significantly different from B.

What about these?
- a difference between A and B

- a difference in A and B

- an attribute is different in A and B.

- an attribute is different between A and B.

The controls show no sign of catching up and seem to have stabilized around 75 percent.

At least one little quote at the end of the week.
For now, have a nice weekend. I'm out! :-)))))))))))))

@ Annaka, there are more than one. When I wanted to put my name on the New York state vanity license plate I couldn't, because somebody else already had it. :-))