Fig. 5

Principle of the Paralogous Inclusive Expression (PIE) and contrasted paralog expression for DEGs in ‘Cachaco’ (Ca) compared to ‘Grande Naine’ (GN) or ‘Mbwazirume’ (Mb). On the left, comparison between DEGs and global expression including paralog expression (PIE). The white bar illustrates an example where DEGs is considered as promising because the global differential expression remains significant. The example with the black bar is discarded as the global expression is comparable between the two compared conditions. On the right, in orange the expression of the genes differentially expressed (normalized read count, Y axis), in other color(s) the expression of respective paralog(s). a and b are examples for genes whose paralog expression does not invalidate the differential expression of DEG; c and d are examples of genes whose paralog expression overwhelmed the DEG expression