Contrasting invertebrate immune defense behaviors caused by a single gene, the Caenorhabditis elegans neuropeptide receptor gene npr-1

Table 2 eQTL enrichment analysis on identified expression clusters

eQTL enrichment analysis was performed to identify significant overlaps between the genes underlying a specific cluster in our analysis (first column; see also Fig. 9) and previously characterized gene sets that define particular eQTLs (last column). Such overlaps can then be linked to the specific QTL regions within the genome (second and third column), which may then contain regulatory elements important for the expression variation in our study and which may also have been identified as QTLs for the observed variation in behavioral immune defense (Figs. 2 and 3). For further details see Additional file 16. No significant enrichment was found for cluster 4

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