Fig. 3
Fuzzy c-means clustering identifies general patterns of gene expression across the five tissue layers in the antler growth center (also refer to Fig. 1). The average FPKM values of DEGs (|log2FoldChange| ≥ 1.5, adjusted Pvalue ≤0.001) are used. The MS of a given gene within a cluster is represented in color, with red (MS = 1) indicating high association. The number of genes with MS ≥ 0.5 in clusters is also shown. For each cluster, the key genes involved in significantly enriched GO BP categories (Additional file 7: Table S4) were shown