Figure 7
Venn diagram of sex differentially expressed genes based on independent comparisons for each month. Some genes (110, middle) have differential expression between sexes in all the seven time points (time independent). Other genes (outer numbers) have significant differential expression only in a single month (time-dependent). All other fields indicate overlaps in sex differential expression for all possible combinations of two or more time points. The black arrow marks the beginning of the annual flowering cycle, with June representing the earliest developmental stage studied. By our final time point, May, fully mature pre-anthesis catkins have developed (c.f. Figure 1 for images of reproductive inflorescences at the different time points.).
