Fig. 4

Relationship between holistic morphological abnormality and fitness. a Scatter plot of non-essential gene deletion mutants in terms of holistic morphological abnormality (x-axis) and fitness (y-axis) (Additional file 2: Table S1). Blue, green, and black circles indicate holistic morphological mutants, specific morphological mutants, and other mutants, respectively. Horizontal and vertical solid red lines indicate FDR = 0.01. Each number indicates the number of deletion mutants classified based on fitness and morphology. b Fitness in holistic morphological mutants, specific morphological mutants, and other mutants. Horizontal solid red lines indicate median values. ** indicates a significant difference at p < 0.01 by the Mann–Whitney U test