Fig. 5

RT-qPCR validation. Correlation between transcriptional abundance of 11 genes (in LT) and 10 genes (in MV) in both whole body and dissected MRT samples, as revealed by RT-qPCR and RNA-seq. Level of abundance is defined as the ratio between each sample value over the group median (mean FPKM and mean ΔCt for RNA-seq and RT-qPCR data, respectively) in both RT-qPCR and RNA-seq approaches. For both techniques, statistical evaluation throughout Pearson test was performed and relative results are reported in the figure insets