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Genes that display significant strain by stage variation fall into four main categories. The genes that show significant variation due to strain by stage interaction were clustered hierarchically. Four distinct patterns appear in the clustered data, identified by the letters A–D. CB4856 (H) are on the left, from the egg to the young adult, while N2 (N) are on the right, from the egg to the young adult. Missing values were imputed using KNN-impute and expression values represent the average from four replicates.

Further Description

Capra et al were studying the variation in gene expression during the different stages of Development of different isolates of C. elegans. This image is a microarray result, showing genes that are expressed in different amounts in different strains of C. elegans during development. This Micrarray shows allow these differentially expressed genes to be classified into 4 groups. It’s likely the genes in the same cluster are regulated in the same way.

Reference <pubmed>19116648</pubmed>

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