Figure 1.

Factorial analyses of scouting across different behavioural and ecological contexts. (a) Numbers of DEG and their overlap as a function of role, context and their interaction, are shown in an area-proportional Venn diagram. ‘Context’ refers to an involvement with either food sources or nest sites (both scouts and recruits), and ‘role’ refers to acting as either a scout or a recruit (for food sources or nest sites). (b) Numbers of functional enrichments (based on GO terms and KEGG pathways) and their overlap as a function of role, context and their interaction (EASE score, p < 0.05) are shown in a similar diagram. Context was associated with the largest number of DEGs but smallest number of GO enrichment terms, with the opposite pattern for the role × context interaction.