Figure 2

Summary of transcriptome expression analysis. A) Overlap of the head, thorax and abdomen transcriptome. The abdomen transcriptome is larger than the two other tissue types, with 53,286 transcripts detected in the abdomen (dark blue), 51,006 in the head (light blue) and 47,544 in the thorax (blue). B) Heatmap of RNA abundance expression. Abundance expression was determined using RSEM and abdundance was measured using FPKM (Fragments Per Kilo base of transcript per Million mapped reads). The figure depicts the 20 most abundantly expressed genes from the head, thorax and abdomen, supporting data is given in the Additional file 1: Tables S5, S6 and S7. The left side of the figure represents the gene name, while the right side describes the general function of the gene.