Fig. 1: Variation in behavior, brain and antenna gene expression between nurses and foragers. | Communications Biology

Fig. 1: Variation in behavior, brain and antenna gene expression between nurses and foragers.

From: Task-specific odorant receptor expression in worker antennae indicates that sensory filters regulate division of labor in ants

Fig. 1

A Boxplot showing behavioral differences between ants selected for transcriptomic analysis. Each black dots represent individual ants. For differential expression analysis, each sample contains the pooled RNA of seven ants of the respective behavioral phenotype. B Venn diagrams showing the number of DEGs that were upregulated in nurses (red) and foragers (turquoise) for both antennae and brain tissues. Principal component analysis (PCA) plots based on all expressed genes for C antenna and D brain samples with 95% confidence level presented as ellipses. The color of each sample represents task (red = nurse, turquoise = forager), and the shape the colony of origin.

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