Figure 1

Distribution of the raw Cq values. For each gene, the box-plot gathered all the 66 raw Cq values obtained from the 33 duplicated culture conditions of T. versatilis. The lower and upper boundaries of the box (interquartile) represent the 25^th and the 75^th percentile, respectively. The line within the box corresponds to the median and the cross to the mean of the distribution, while the whiskers indicate the highest and the lowest Cq values, with the exception of the outliers that are represented by the squares outside the whiskers.