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. 2018 Jan 22;9:13. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00013

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Heatmap of differential cytokine gene expression in Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG)-infected (red bar, far right) and control (green bar, far right) house finches on day 6 postinoculation (DPI 6). For this analysis, all MG-infected birds received the NC2006 isolate. The heatmap is based on relative cytokine quantity standardized on 28S rRNA expression (stQ). Gene names are shown at the bottom of the chart. Low gene expression is indicated in red; high gene expression in white. Tissue type is highlighted with color of the sample label: red—blood (Bl), green—brain (Br), orange—conjunctiva (Cj), purple—choana and upper respiratory tract (Ch), blue—Harderian gland (HG), light orange—nictitating membrane = internal eyelid (iL), light green—spleen (SP). Dendrograms showing the clustering of the cytokine expression patterns were constructed using Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean method.