Table 3. Microarray probes differentially expressed across albino, light and dark prawns.

	Number of Probes differentially expressed across the single pair-wise comparisons
Gene ID	Albino and Light	Albino and Dark	Dark and Light
arginine kinase/allergen Pen m	16	13	0
Crustin	0	0	3
elongation factor 1 alpha	0	7	0
elongation factor 2	0	3	0
heat shock protein 70	0	0	4
myosin heavy chain	0	0	5
myosin light chain	3	3	0
possibly integrin-linked protein kinase 2	0	0	3
possibly male reproductive related protein	3	0	0
possibly myosin light chain	0	3	0
possibly solute carrier family 25 (phosphate carrier)	0	0	3
ribosomal RNA	0	0	71
sarcoplasmic calcium-binding protein	15	19	0
slow muscle myosin S1 heavy chain	0	0	6
slow tonic S2 tropomyosin	21	0	0
some type of actin	48	73	3
Tropomyosin	6	0	0
troponin I	18	4	0
Unannotated	52	55	54
Total	182	180	152

This table summarises the results of the single pair-wise comparisons for ease of readability, and shows probes that were 4-fold or greater and statistically significantly (p<0.05) differentially expressed according to the individual pair-wise comparisons of albino and light, albino and dark, and 4-fold or greater but not statistically significantly differentially expressed between light and dark F. merguiensis, in at least three out of four probes. The comparison between light and dark, although not significant, was included to show potential underlying biological trends in the data.