Fig. 1

Heat map of top thirty DEGs in the magnum of laying and non-laying hens. The raw z-score depicts the standard deviation of the gene expression value from the mean after normalization. A gene having a negative z-score is represented by green color while a positive z-score is represented by red color. RNA-Seq was performed on magnum from three laying (3 h p.o.) and three non-laying hens. Transcripts were aligned to the chicken genome and mapped genes with at least a 3-fold change difference and Benjamini Hochberg q-value < 0.05 were considered differentially expressed