Transcriptomes of the Premature and Mature Ovaries of an Ascidian, Ciona intestinalis

摘要

Figure 1. Transcriptomic analyses of Ciona intestinalis ovaries. (A) Comparative scatter plot analysis of gene expression levels in premature and mature ovaries. The x- and y-axes represent the expression of each gene in premature and mature ovaries, respectively. (B) Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes in premature and mature ovaries. GO was categorized as “Biological Process” (BP), “Cellular Component” (CC), and “Molecular Function” (MF). Each node represents a GO term. The branches of GO hierarchical trees without significantly enriched GO terms are not shown. The circle size of each node indicates the number of genes with that GO term. The color of each node represents the enrichment score. Red and blue colored nodes indicate the high enrichment scores of expressed genes in premature and mature ovaries, respectively. Edges represent “is_a” connections between GO terms. (C) Real-time PCR analysis of several individual genes expressed in premature (left panel) and mature (right panel) ovaries. Detailed information on genes and primers is summarized in Table S1 in Supplementary Material.