FIGURE 6.

Sexual-specific and module-specific transcription activities of genes in the three WO prophages. The numbers of genes of the prophages verified by RT-PCR were counted. The thick bars in the background represent the total numbers of genes for which we designed primers for amplification, and the narrow bars represent the actual numbers of genes possessing transcriptional activities in each WO sample. Results of six WO samples were split into four groups according to the different functional modules. WOCsol and WOWpum showed a higher transcription activity in males than that in females, and in WOKgib, the pattern was observed to be the opposite. Meanwhile, the genes of head modules of the three WOs were transcribed to a greater extent than those of the baseplate modules, which showed functional module preference on conserved modules.