Fig. 1

Volcano plot displaying DEGs between the whole blood of 10 low yielders and 13 high yielders. The y-axis corresponds to the mean expression value of log10 (q-value), and the x-axis displays the log2 fold change value. The red dots circled in the frame represent the significantly differentially expressed transcripts (p value < 0.05 and FDR < 0.05) between high and low milk yield cows; the blue dots represent the transcripts whose expression levels did not reach statistical significance between the two groups