Table 5.
Overlap of Genes Found to be Differentially Expressed due to Mating and/or the Onset of Reproduction in Cardiocondyla obscurior, Drosophila melanogaster, and Apis mellifera (−, downregulated; +, upregulated).
| VQ18 versus SQ18 |
VQ18 versus MQ18 |
SQ18 versus MQ18 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + | − | + | − | + | − | ||||
| Drosophila melanogaster orthologs (6,959) | DEGs | 186 | 74 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Whole Female (McGraw 2004) | Sperm | + | 139 | 3 (0.9) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| − | 152 | 16 (3.8e-5) | 2 (0.8) | 2 (0.2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acps | + | 41 | 5 (0.027) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| − | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nonsperm/Non-Acps | + | 317 | 13 (0.2) | 2 (0.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| − | 196 | 11 (0.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Apis mellifera othologs (7,948) | DEGs | 215 | 80 | 27 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Queen Brain (Kocher et al. 2008) | Virgin versus Mated | + | 42 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| − | 30 | 1 | 2 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Virgin versus Intermediate | + | 66 | 3 (0.4) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| − | 336 | 2 (1) | 12 (0.001) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Intermediate versus Mated | + | 261 | 1 | 4 (0.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| − | 100 | 3 (0.7) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Queen Ovary (Kocher et al. 2008) | Virgin versus Mated | + | 74 | 2 (0.8) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| − | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Virgin versus Intermediate | + | 119 | 2 (1) | 2 (0.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| − | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Intermediate versus Mated | + | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| − | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Queen Brain (Kocher et al. 2010) | Virgin versus Mated | + | 84 | 9 (0.003) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| − | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Worker Brain (Grozinger et al. 2007) | Sterile versus Reproductive | + | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| − | 59 | 4 (0.2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Whole Worker (Cardoen et al. 2011) | Sterile versus Reproductive | + | 410 | 39 (8.9e-11) | 2 (1) | 3 (0.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| − | 632 | 5 (1) | 12 (0.1) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Worker Ovary (Wang et al. 2012) | Low pollen versus high pollen strain | + | 616 | 25 (0.1) | 2 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| − | 1,140 | 21 (1) | 18 (0.1) | 3 (1) | 0 | 2 (0.2) | 0 | ||
Note.—Fisher’s exact tests were performed on comparisons revealing at least two common genes, resulting P values after FDR-correction are shown in parenthesis. Significant overlaps are italicized.