Transcripts up-regulated in absence of lin-65 correlate with and are largely epistatic to met-2-induced changes. (A) Representative image of embryos bearing reporter gwIs4, which expresses GFP::LacI when derepressed, following RNAi against met-2, lin-65, or empty vector. Bar = 5 µm. (B) RT-qPCR on total RNA isolated from wild-type, lin-65(gw1465), met-2(n4256), and arle-14(tm6748) mutant embryos for selected repetitive elements showing the fold change in expression over wild-type (N = 4; error bars indicate the standard deviation). Classes of repetitive elements are indicated above the graph. (C and D) Changes of genes in met-2(n4256), lin-65(gw1465), and met-2;lin-65 embryos determined by total RNA-seq (N = 3). (C) Correlation between the fold change (FC, log2) over wild-type for gene expression between met-2 and lin-65 single and double mutants. Genes significantly changed compared with wild-type (FDR <0.05; fold change >2 or <−2) are colored according to the genotype (lin-65 = cyan; met-2 = red; met-2 = purple), and genes significantly changed in two compared genotypes are black. Pearson correlations are indicated as R2 in the graphs. (D) Expression level of genes in reads per kilobase per million (RPKM in log2) in met-2 and lin-65 single mutants (y axis) compared with the lin-65;met-2 double mutant (x axis). Black mark genes significantly changed in both met-2 and lin-65 single mutants.