Skip to main content

Table 2 Comparison of FPKM distributions between OP and CP libraries

From: Comparative transcriptome analysis of obligately asexual and cyclically sexual rotifers reveals genes with putative functions in sexual reproduction, dormancy, and asexual egg production

Genes

Sample

OP

OP

CP

CP

Kolmogorov-Smirnov

Mann–Whitney

size

mean

variance

mean

variance

value

value

All

39265

1.0320

0.7431

1.4521

0.5545

0.0001

-

Housekeeping

176

2.5819

1.7160

2.5751

1.3709

0.0540

0.4660

Dormancy

200

1.5381

0.9866

2.0287

0.6013

0.0001

-

Meiosis Inventory

107

1.3204

0.4265

1.6428

0.3424

0.0002

-

MI-Recombination

26

0.9094

0.2261

1.3591

0.2432

0.0019

-

MI-Chromosome Struc.& Int.

33

1.4567

0.2878

1.7927

0.1487

0.0328

-

MI-Cell Cycle

48

1.4503

0.5268

1.6950

0.4855

0.0074

-

Nuclear Receptors

73

0.8888

0.7537

1.2949

0.3400

0.0099

-

Male Gametogenesis

39

1.2196

0.4508

1.5884

0.2337

0.0078

-

  1. Mean and variance are given for log-transformed FPKM values for sets of genes examined in this study. Distributions of expression were compared using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test with statistically similar distributions compared post-hoc by Mann–Whitney test.