Fig. 7

Expression of genes commonly used as molecular markers of osteoblast and osteoclast cells indicate that genes functioning in osteoblast differentiation are typically not differentially expressed among species of pupfish, while a number of osteoclast expressed genes tend to be overexpressed in the scale-biter and underexpressed in the durophage. Gene expression values were measured as log2 transformed RPKM similar to Fig. 6. Letters indicate significant differential expression (FDR ≤ 0.1) in pairwise comparisons at each stage. Letters are omitted from stages where no pairwise comparisons are significant