Identification of Potential Metabolites Mediating Bird’s Selective Feeding on Prunus mira Flowers
Figure 3
Identification of the potential metabolites associated with the bird’s selective feeding behavior in Prunus mira flowers. (a) Volcano-plot showing the differentially accumulated metabolites (DAMs) between the preferred (FG) and avoided (BFT) flowers by birds at the J location (J-FG_vs_J-BFT), (b) volcano-plot showing the DAMs between the preferred (FG) and avoided (BFT) flowers by birds at the N location (N-FG_vs_N-BFT), (c) volcano-plot showing the DAMs between the preferred (FG) and avoided (BFT) flowers by birds at the Y location (Y-FG_vs_Y-BFT), (d) Venn diagram depicting the shared and unique DAMs between the three sampling locations, and (e) Salvianolic acid A content (pme2444) in FG and BFT samples collected at the three locations. DAMs were identified based on the variable importance in projection ≥ 1 and fold change ≥ 2 or fold change ≤ 0.5.