Figure 3.

Gene expression profile in the schizont and piroplasm life cycle stages. (A) Heatmap of all the differentially expressed genes. (B) Heatmap of the top 20 most variable genes between schizont replicates and piroplasm replicates. The genes were clustered into two groups: from genes XM_760801.1 to XM_757627.1 where genes were upregulated in piroplasm and downregulated in schizont, and from XM_757604.1 to XM_758863.1 where genes where upregulated in schizont and downregulated in piroplasm. The genes were clustered by hierarchical clustering within each horizontal partition and replicates for the infection stages within each vertical partition by similarity. Color red denotes high expression, yellow denotes stable expression, and blue denotes low expression. The colors are scaled per row.