Fig. 6

Heat maps of gene expression. Expression patterns of genes carrying non-synonymous SNPs associated with fiber length in MAGIC parents and four RILs at the 8 DPA fiber development stage (a) and in different cotton tissues (b). Expression patterns of DEGs near fiber length QTLs length in MAGIC parents and four RILs at 8 DPA (c) and in different cotton tissues (d). Expression data for different cotton tissues were obtained from ccNET database (http://structuralbiology.cau.edu.cn/gossypium/). Fiber developmental tissues were marked with a rectangle