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. 2009 Aug 21;106(36):15400–15405. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0907043106

Table 2.

Aggression-related brain gene regulation in honey bees: Number of genes overlapping between gene sets and regulated in the same direction

Experiment Old bee
AHB guard
AHB soldier
AHB forager
Expected Observed no. RF P value Expected Observed no. RF P value Expected Observed no. RF P value Expected Observed no. RF P value
    Alarm pheromone 55.3 139 2.5 <0.0001 10 14 1.4 0.13 21.8 41 1.9 <0.0001 2.3 4 1.7 0.16
    Old bee 28.8 27 0.9 0.41 63.7 105 1.6 <0.0001 6.8 14 2.1 0.006
    AHB guard (I) 11.6 75 6.5 <0.0001 1.2 24 19.5 <0.0001
    AHB soldier (I) 2.7 29 10.7 <0.0001
    Alarm pheromone 55.3 139 2.5 <0.0001 19.8 18 0.9 0.4 33.6 47 1.4 0.011 13.9 19 1.4 0.1
    Old bee 57.1 70 1.2 0.04 98.3 162 1.5 <0.0001 40.3 57 1.4 0.004
    AHB guard (C) 35.4 151 4.3 <0.0001 14.6 87 6.0 <0.0001
    AHB soldier (C) 24.9 97 3.9 <0.0001

Data are from the following: Experiment 1, AHB vs. EHB (guards, soldiers, and foragers); Experiment 2, alarm pheromone induced; and Experiment 3, old vs. young bees. Expected, the number of genes expected to overlap in all three experiments by chance alone; RF, representation factor; I, individual genotype; C, colony genotype. The statistical significance of the overlap between two lists was determined using an exact hypergeometric test and an extended version of the hypergeometric test for the overlap between three lists (see SI Text).