Table 3.
Number of DEGs identified in each pairwise comparison using DESeq 2.
| Comparison name | Pairwise comparison | total DEGs |
upreg. DEGs | downreg. DEGs |
annotated unique DEGs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First ACTH response | Day 1 ACTH response/Day 1 pre-ACTH | 315 | 302 | 13 | 61 |
| Fourth ACTH response | Day 4 ACTH response/Day 4 pre-ACTH | 29 | 21 | 8 | 12 |
| Overall ACTH response | Day 4 ACTH response/Day 1 pre-ACTH | 624 | 479 | 145 | 99 |
| Pre-ACTH comparison | Day 4 pre-ACTH/Day 1 pre-ACTH | 66 | 39 | 27 | 24 |
| ACTH response comparison | Day 4 ACTH response/Day 1 ACTH response | 27 | 23 | 4 | 12 |
DEGs: differentially expressed genes. Annotated unique DEGs: differentially expressed elephant seal homologs of vertebrate proteins with known function, with multiple transcript isoforms collapsed to a single gene.