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. 2016 Nov 24;7:574. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00574

Figure 8.

Figure 8

qRT-PCR analysis of tissue-specific relative expression levels of forkhead box protein O (FOXO) across castes of B. terrestris. FOXO is a transcription factor involved in stress tolerance, diapause, longevity, and growth. FOXO transcription is lower in workers and reproducing queens than in other castes (see main text). Data represent mean ± SEM (n = 3–5) of normalized and rescaled expression levels. (A) Heatmap: Log-scale. Bar graphs: Relative transcript levels in linear scale (B) and log-transformed scale (C). Significantly different expression levels are indicated by different letters (p < 0.05).