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Fig. 2

From: Sexually dimorphic gene expression in the lateral eyes of Euphilomedes carcharodonta (Ostracoda, Pancrustacea)

Fig. 2

Embryonic expression of eye-related genes. To assess whether eye-development genes were also pleiotropically expressed at embryonic stages, we compared embryonic expression levels to average juvenile values. We divided average embryonic expression by average juvenile expression to assess relative expression levels. Numbers lower than one (below the X-axis) represent embryonic expression levels lower than average juvenile levels. Numbers greater than one (above the X-axis) represent embryonic expression levels higher than average juvenile levels. Most of the genes whose homologues are known to be used in Drosophila development, are also expressed at relatively high levels in E. carcharodonta embryos. Error bars represent standard error. Specification gene homologs are in blue, determination/patterning gene homologs are in green, and phototransduction gene homologs are in orange. The lighter color bars represent early embryos (no eyespot visible) while the darker bars denote late embryos (eyespot visible). Due to the large variation in expression levels between genes, the Y-axis is log-scaled

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