Species differences in brain gene expression profiles associated with adult behavioral maturation in honey bees

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Consistency of results compared to an earlier study

		Genes differentially expressed in Whitfield et al 2006 (p < 0.001)
Genes differentially expressed in current experiment (p < 0.01)		One-day-old upregulated (1574)	Forager upregulated (1678)	Replicability
*A. mellifera*	One-day-old upregulated (665)	413	50	X² = 562.75 p < 10^-15
	Forager upregulated (662)	60	432
*A. cerana*	One-day-old upregulated (425)	302	18	X² = 400.6 p < 10^-15
	Forager upregulated (317)	22	214
*A. dorsata*	One-day-old upregulated (258)	174	18	X² = 267.53 p < 10^-15
	Forager upregulated (227)	10	172
*A. florea*	One-day-old upregulated (528)	326	53	X² = 402.18 p < 10^-15
	Forager upregulated (611)	61	356

Data belonging to each species were analyzed separately to obtain genes significantly regulated between foragers and one-day-olds by an F test (p < 0.01), numbers in parentheses. The comparison set was obtained from Whitfield et al 2006 [8] and consisted of genes significantly regulated between foragers and one-day-olds (p < 0.001). Only those genes that were present in the gene list of at least one species in the current study were included in the comparison set. Intersects of pair-wise comparisons between the two datasets are given along with results of Chi-square tests.

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