Figure 1.

Effect of treatment on the mRNA expression of conceptus tissues from lactating dairy cows receiving AI (A) or heifers receiving ET (B). Conceptuses were recovered on day 16 of pregnancy and dissected into trophoblast and embryonic disc. Heat maps were generated including differently expressed genes (P ≤ 0.10) affected by treatment for the experiment with lactating cows receiving AI or for the experiment with heifers receiving ET. Genes were separated using the average linkage clustering method and following Euclidean distance measurement approach. The mRNA expression increases from red to green, and data based on genes were compared across the rows and presented on a Z-score-based scaling system.