Fig. 7
From: Post-transcriptional regulation of Dufour’s gland reproductive signals in bumble bees
Panel A-Comparison between identified proteins (current study) and transcripts (previous study) in the Dufour’s gland. The y-axis shows mean log2CPM (TMM normalized counts per million) expression values from a previous RNA-seq study [14] and orders genes by descending value. Genes for which we also identified proteins with shotgun proteomics (this study) are shifted up and shown in blue, and those proteins which are differentially expressed are shifted up and shown in purple. Panel B - The inset violin plot shows the distributions of the genes that were found in the RNA-seq study (black), found in both proteomics and RNAseq studies (blue), and those that were differentially expressed in the proteomics study (purple). As expected, the set of identified proteins was biased towards more abundantly-expressed genes, but still captured variation in some of the least abundantly-expressed genes. For purpose of visualization, only the queen values are shown but the pattern is similar for all groups