Figure 5

Genes identified in I. elegans that are found in pigmentation pathways in experimental animal systems. A) Melanin pathway B) Pteridine pathway and C) Ommochrome pathway. Pathways were constructed by overlying the genes identified in the I. elegans transcriptome over well-established colour pathways obtained from other experimental animal system. Black colour denotes pigments or pigment precursors, blue denote enzymes or proteins and red denotes genes identified in the I. elegans transcriptome. D) Heatmap of RNA expression of pigmentation enzymes in the three tissues, supporting data can be found in Additional file 1: Table S12.