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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Proteomics. 2015 Jan 7;117:120–144. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.12.014

Figure 8. Expression difference of bilaris proteins between male and female ticks.

Figure 8

Figure 8

(A) Fold difference in the transcriptome is expressed over number of male reads. Seven transcripts were highly expressed in females while one was highly expressed in males. These sex biased transcripts which were more than 10 fold expressed in either sex are highlighted in grey. The subclass of the bilaris proteins are indicated beside the transcript name. It is noted that most of subclass I, III and IV were expressed by males, and subclass II and V in females, as tabulated in the inset. Transcripts marked with an asterisk (*) were used for RT-PCR studies. (B) RT-PCR was performed on selected bilaris proteins from subclass II, III and IV. Comparison of expression is in reference to females. Two independent biological samples were used to obtain the standard deviation.