Fig. 4
From: Horizontally acquired antibacterial genes associated with adaptive radiation of ladybird beetles
Evidence of the antibacterial activity of ladybird cwh genes III: Downregulation of other antibacterial genes in cwh-RNAi strains. Gene expression levels of three cwh-RNAi strains of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (RNAi of CM-C1a, CM-C1b, and CM-C2) were studied based on transcriptome sequencing data. Three biological replicates were set for each treatment, and GFP-treated individuals were used as control. Patterns of expression of immunity-related genes involving in recognition (PGRP and GNBP), signal transduction (Toll/IMD and JAK/STAT pathway), and defense execution (antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and lysozymes) are shown. FPKM (fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped) of PBS controls, log2(fold change) and -log10 adjust-p values (-log10(Q)) for the transcriptome comparisons of cwh-RNAi strains vs PBS control were showed. Only genes with average FPKM higher than 1 are shown