Table 2.

Association of OGs of genes in L. tarentolae with differential expression in promastigote and/or amastigote life stages in pathogenic Leishmania species

	n	Promastigote	Amastigote	P-value*
All OGs	7694	890	1013	NA
Higher copy number in L. tarentolae	86	20	20	0.75
Lower copy number in L. tarentolae	23	11	11	0.83
OGs absent from L. tarentolae	278	18	52	<0.001

*Promastigote versus amastigote comparison using two-tailed Fisher's exact test.

NA: Not Applicable.