Figure 3

Distribution of morphological phenotypes of the natural strains and the gene deletion strains. (A) Distribution of the ratio of variance of the gene deletion strains to the natural strains. Gray and white boxes indicate the parameters with a larger and a smaller variance, respectively, of gene deletion strains than those of the natural strains. (B) Boxplot of the whole cell size (C101_C). (C) Equiprobability density ellipse of the natural strains and the gene deletion strains. The blue, orange, and black circles indicate the natural strains, the gene deletion strains, and BY4743, respectively. The blue and orange ellipses show the multivariate normal distribution of the natural strains and the gene deletion strains, respectively. Ratio of variance was calculated by gene-deletion/natural.