Unscrambling butterfly oogenesis

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Table 1 Transcript abundance

Ovary/Egg LOG2 fold change	Egg/Ovary LOG2 fold change	FPKM - value
spherulin-2A	signal transducing adapter molecule 1	ribosomal protein LP2
PACG20471	nucleolar GTP-binding protein 2	40S ribosomal protein S6
chorion class A precursor family 5	ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 S	ribosomal protein L39
Bmtitin1	SLIT-ROBO Rho GTPase-activating protein	cytochrome oxidase subunit 3
Egg protein 80	mo-molybdopterin cofactor sulfurase	Bmtitin1
Vitellogenin	poly U binding factor 68kD	ribosomal protein L32
chorion class A precursor family 3	NADH dehydrogenase subunit 6	40S ribosomal protein S28
chorion class A precursor family 4	PACG6651	ubiquitin
PACG21670	chromatin regulatory protein sir2	Ferritin 2 – light chain homolog
chorion class C precursor family 2	PACG13792	BmBR-C gene for Broad-Complex isoform Z2
putative uncharacterized protein DDB	DNA repair protein complementing XP-A cells homolog	polyubiquitin
PACG20450	disulfide oxidoreductase	ribosomal protein L27
PACG21661	PACG710	60S ribosomal protein L28
PACG24051	similar to phosphinothricin acetyltransferase gene	PACG20761
chorion class B precursor family 1	PACG5386	60S ribosomal protein L18
chorion protein-like	abhydrolase domain-containing protein 1	translationally controlled tumor protein
endonuclease-reverse transcriptase	RAD51C protein	ribosomal protein S3A
spec2	PACG18339	60S ribosomal protein L38
PACG19208	PACG19350	ribosomal protein L7A
PACG20509	SLIT-ROBO Rho GTPase-activating protein 1-like	heat shock protein cognate 3

Transcript abundance (on the basis of FPKM values) in the Pararge aegeria ovarian/oocyte transcriptome (see also Additional file 2). The first column is a measure of which transcripts were most abundant in the ovaries compared to those present as maternal transcripts in the oocytes. These are genes highly expressed in the ovaries, but with few to no maternal transcripts in the oocyte. The genes listed in column 2 have relatively high FPKM values in the oocytes compared to the ovaries, indicating large concentrations of transcripts (see also Additional file 2). The third column lists the genes most transcribed during P. aegeria oogenesis. Columns list the gene top 20, from high to low.

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