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Fig. 4 | Genome Biology

Fig. 4

From: Comparative transcriptomics reveals the conserved building blocks involved in parallel evolution of diverse phenotypic traits in ants

Fig. 4

Only a single gene is consistently differentially expressed between queens and workers. The plot shows the number of caste differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in common in a variable number of randomly selected species (bootstrap resampling 100 times). This pairwise analysis shows either that few genes are consistently caste-biased across species or that comparison of differentially expressed genes lacks power to detect these biases. By contrast, network analysis manifested significant underlying regulatory structure, suggesting that it is a more powerful approach (Fig. 2). A similar analysis was conducted at the level of GO terms (Fig. 5)

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