Fig. 5: Transcriptional changes in Jamaican fruit bat respiratory tract after inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 Delta.

Gene expression changes in blood, lungs, and nasal turbinates collected at 1 and 4 DPI. Tissues collected from uninfected bats at day 28 served as comparison. The expression level of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) was plotted against the significance level in a volcano plot. Shown are DEGs from transcriptomic data collected at 1 and 4 DPI compared to each other or to non-infected animals. Upregulated DEGs are shown in red, downregulated DEGs in blue and non-differentially expressed transcripts are shown in gray.