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. 2008 Aug 25;105(37):13912–13917. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710997105

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

Mating induces changes in oviduct transcript expression level. (A) Schematic representation of Drosophila female RT. The oviduct is composed of the lateral oviducts (LO) and common oviduct (CO). Other organs: ovary (OV), accessory gland (AG), sperm storage organs (SSO), and uterus (UT). (B) Identification of mating-responsive transcripts. Venn diagram of transcripts from unmated or mated oviducts at 3 h after mating: Of the 5,615 total transcripts present in either sample, 53 were present only in unmated oviduct, and 198 were present only in mated oviduct. A total of 432 transcripts were significantly differentially expressed (P < 0.05); of these, 33 were down-regulated and 122 were up-regulated by ≥1.5-fold. (C–E) Clusters of genes differentially expressed (fold change ≥1.5; P < 0.05) in oviducts of unmated and mated females at 3 h after mating. Expression ratios range from −1.8 (purple) to +1.8 (yellow). (C) Genes up-regulated in mated female; most immune-related genes (red) were higher in mated oviduct. (D) Genes down-regulated in mated female; transcription factors are highlighted (blue). (E) Genes differentially expressed in oviduct and whole-body assay (8); genes from cluster shown in C are highlighted in bold labels, with immune-related genes in red labels. Schematic in A adapted from FlyBase image FBim6932540. See also Fig. S1.