Fig. 4
From: Stability in gene expression and body-plan development leads to evolutionary conservation
Gene expression diversity under a laboratory crossing strategy significantly correlated with that under natural evolution In the scatter plots, the x-axes show F3 gene expression diversity, and the y-axes show gene expression diversity between the two wild Kasasa and Oura populations. The same analysis was performed for all four developmental stages. The numbers of embryonic pairs from the two wild populations were 16 (stage 15, n = 4 per population), 16 (stage 23.5, n = 4), 16 (stages 28, n = 4), and 4 (hatching, n = 2). Spearman’s correlation coefficients and the numbers of genes used in the analysis are shown in each plot (stage 15, rho = 0.37, P = 2.8×10−25; stage 23.5, rho = 0.40, P = 9.6×10−38; stage 28, rho = 0.37, P = 5.1×10−34; hatching, rho = 0.25, P = 3.4×10−20). The P values are derived from the test of no correlation