Figure 9
From: Characterisation of Caenorhabditis eleganssperm transcriptome and proteome
Sperm genes are downregulated by endo-siRNA pathway. (a) Heat-map showing the transcripts in the sperm transcriptome are targeted by antisense 19G-28G primary siRNAs. Each row represents a sperm transcript. Abundance of a sperm transcript is quantified by log2RPKM. The sperm transcript targeted by the corresponding siRNAs is indicated by a black line. (b) RT-PCR identification of 32 sperm genes that are expressed at higher levels in the rrf-3;him-5, as compared with the him-5.