Fig. 1

RNA-seq samples. a Hymenolepis microstoma life cycle illustrating the stages and regions sampled for transcriptome profiling (dashed boxes) described in Table 1 (whole worm illustration modified from [42]). b Principal component analysis showing clustering of sample replicates and relative variance among samples across PC1 and PC2. c Heatmap clustering of sample replicates showing hierarchical relationships based on overall expression similarity (n.b. each of the three larval samples was split and sequenced as two technical replicates). Note clustering of the Scolex-Neck samples with the Larvae samples rather than with the other adult samples