Fig. 3.

Differential gene expression of ECs and LCs. (a) Violin plots showed the expression of 11 cell-marker genes are different in the ECs (Red) compared with LCs (Green). The gene name is indicated on top of each violin plot and the value on Y-axle represents the gene expression level in the binary logarithm (log₂) value. (b) Bar graph shows the values of differential gene expression by fold change of the binary logarithm (log₂) in ECs relative to LCs (*p < 0.05; ***p < 0.001). Gene symbols are used in the figures and corresponding gene names can be found in Table 2. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)