Gene expression analyses in maize inbreds and hybrids with varying levels of heterosis-5

-mer oligonucleotide microarray data. (A) The d/a distributions for all differentially expressed genes. The distributions of the four hybrids are very similar to one another and peak at approximately zero, as was observed in Affymetrix microarray data. (B) The d/a distributions for the subset of differentially expressed genes that are also represented with features on the Affymetrix platform. The distributions are similar to those in (A). In both (A) and (B), the proportion of DE genes with d/a values above 3.0 or below -3.0 are all plotted as a single data point. The proportion of d/a values above 3.0 and below -3.0 for hybrid B84 × B73 plotted beyond the range of the displays and are not shown.Copyright information:Taken from "Gene expression analyses in maize inbreds and hybrids with varying levels of heterosis"http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/8/33BMC Plant Biology 2008;8():33-33.Published online 10 Apr 2008PMCID:PMC2365949.