Figure 1. Change in metabolites during encystation.

(A) Kinetics of encystation. The percentages of the amoebae resistant to 0.05% sarkosyl during encystation are shown. (B and C) Heat map produced by hierarchical clustering of metabolites profiles obtained from CE-TOFMS analysis. Rows correspond to metabolites and columns correspond to time intervals. Shown are 104 metabolites detected during encystation. Metabolites levels are expressed as log₂ of the fold change with respect to time 0 h. Shades in red and green indicate an increase and decrease of metabolites, respectively, according to the scale bar shown at the bottom.