Table 2. An overabundance of Grs expressed in female legs are the result of Heliconius-specific duplication.
Gene Family | Gene duplication | Gene Expression | ||
Female-specific | Both sexes | P value† | ||
Gr ‡ | Heliconius-specific | 15 | 20 | 0.019 |
Conserved* | 1 | 13 | ||
Or § | Heliconius-specific | 6 | 12 | 0.483 |
Conserved* | 5 | 19 |
Consists of single-copy genes in H. melpomene; in the monarch or Bombyx genomes, homologues are either single-copy or duplicate genes with bootstrap support ≥80%.
Fisher's exact test, two-tailed, d.f. = 1.
Excludes Gr39 because of poor coverage in the reference genome read-mapping.
Excludes Or20 and Or24 because of coverage in the reference genome.