Fig. 3

RNA-Seq transcriptomes compared between mouse smooth muscle tissue/cells versus woodrat and laboratory rat foregut tissues. The mouse smooth muscle (SM) RNA-Seq data was obtained from NCBI: GSM1388412, (SM Jejunum) and GSM1388406 (SM cells Jejunum). a A Spearman rank correlation matrix of read counts from 10,241 genes detected in woodrat (N ste) or lab rat (R nor) foregut compared with mouse smooth muscle tissue (SM54 = GSM1388412) or isolated mouse smooth muscle cells (SMC48 = GSM1388406). b List of smooth muscle-specific transcripts identified from the Smooth Muscle Cell Genome Browser [21]. c Normalized log₂ read count scatter plots showing the comparative transcript abundance between mouse SM jejunum and the rat foregut tissues, with smooth muscle-specific transcripts shown in red