Fig. 4

Select candidate genes for the regulation of the transitions between brood care and reproduction. The plots show the expression changes over time after adding larvae (RB transition; blue) or removing larvae (BR transition; green) from the colonies. a Transferrin. b ILP2 (insulin-like peptide 2). c LGR4 (leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein-coupled receptor 4). d Neuroparsin-a. e Queen vitellogenin. Gene expression is shown as variance-stabilized transformed read counts (which approximate log2-transformed read counts)