Fig. 5

Expression of long RNA transcripts affected by MSUS in sperm at different developmental spermatogenic stages and in Sertoli cells. a Density plot shows the presence of mRNA and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) found to be differentially accumulated in MSUS sperm in spermatogonia, pachytene spermatocytes (pachytene), round spermatids and Sertoli cells. b Heatmap shows single differentially accumulated mRNA and long non-coding RNA in F1 control and MSUS sperm in comparison to spermatogonia (three samples), pachytene spermatocytes (three samples), round spermatids (three samples) and Sertoli cells (one sample) in control conditions (published data [26, 27]). Sequencing was done once with two batches of different libraries (a, b). Plotted are the row z-scores of log-normalised counts