Table 1. Widely different numbers of genes are differentially expressed in (A) C. elegans and (B) P. pacificus in response to the four bacteria.
(A) C. elegans | Up | Down | TOTAL | %Up | %Down |
B. thuringiensis | 5532 | 156 | 5688 | 97% | 3% |
S. aureus | 181 | 68 | 249 | 73% | 27% |
S. marcescens | 1465 | 4931 | 6396 | 23% | 77% |
X. nematophila | 732 | 7884 | 8616 | 15% | 85% |
The genes were called differentially expressed on microarrays if the FDR corrected p-value was less than 0.05 and the absolute value of fold changes was greater than 1.42 (corresponding to log2 fold change of 0.5 where log2(1.42) = 0.5).