Fig. 7

The Comparison of expression of five genes between RNA-Seq and qRT-PCR during the differentiation of workers into NRs. a Ras protein; (b) Calmodulin; (c) calcium-binding protein; (d) Ras GTPase-activating protein 4; (e) protein kinase C. Worker, the female workers in natal colonies; IWs, isolated female workers for 3 weeks; NRs, female neotenic reproductives. The blue color represents the qRT-PCR analyses of the gene expression levels. The red color represents the transcriptome sequencing analyses (RPKM) of the gene expression levels