Identifying a developmental transition in honey bees using gene expression data
Fig 6
Existing “transition index” measure also suggests a transition when focused on particular genes.
The transition index defined in Ref. [17] requires selecting a set of genes that are known a priori to be involved in a transition. Applying this measure to our data and restricting to genes identified by our method, the largest values occur at age 10 and 15 (red circles). This corroborates our method, which does not require selecting specific genes, yet locates a transition at a similar time. In contrast, when including data from all 91 genes (pink squares), the signal in the transition index is washed out.