Fig 1. BmPMFBP1 is specifically expressed in testes.

(A) Tissue and developmental stage-specific levels of gene expression for two SilkDB3 annotations corresponding to the BmPMFBP1 locus. (B) The relative transcript level of BmPMFBP1 in various tissues from the fourth day of the fifth larval instar (L5D4). Tissues including epidermis (EP), fat body (FB), gonad (GD, testes in male and ovary in female), head (HE), midgut (MG), Malpighian tubule (MT), silk gland (SG). (C) HMM (hidden Markov model) profile alignment of the SMC domain in PMFBP1 from human (Homo) and silkworm (Bombyx). Protein regions outside of those represented here failed to align.