Fig. 4
From: Caste- and environment-associated differential expression of olfactory receptors in pest ants
Results of GO analysis of Camponotus floridanus DEGs. (A–B) GO analysis results of DEGs between majors originating from Wild Spaces A and B (A) and DEGs between minors originating from Wild Spaces A and B (B), with terms colored by biological process (BP, dark blue), cellular component (CP, medium blue), and molecular function (MF, light blue). Most of the terms are related to molecular function. This suggests that antennal transcriptomes of ants from various wild environments primarily differ in relation to the expression of genes with roles in molecular function. (C–D) GO analysis results of DEGs between wild and lab-reared majors (C) and DEGs between wild and lab-reared minors (D); terms are colorized as in (A–B). GO terms identified in (C) are similar (though fewer in number) to those identified in (A); however, GO terms identified in (D) are starkly different from those of (B), featuring several terms related to olfaction. These findings suggest there are substantial differences between lab-reared and wild minor antennal transcriptomes, particularly in relation to genes involved in olfaction, an entirely different result from the previous comparison of minors from two wild environments. However, this finding does not carry over to majors: DEGs between lab-reared and wild majors exhibit similar function to DEGs between majors of differing wild environments.
