Sex-Biased Gene Expression of Mesobuthus martensii Collected from Gansu Province, China, Reveals Their Different Therapeutic Potentials

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Quality control and overview of the transcriptome of male and female scorpions. (a) Length distribution of unigenes. (b) GC content distribution of unignens. (c) TPM distribution of unigenes. The horizontal coordinates of A, B, and C are the sequence length, GC content, and TPM of the unigenes, respectively. The left vertical coordinates of these histogram represent the number of unigenes, whereas the right vertical coordinates are the cumulative percentage of unigenes. (d) Body width/metasoma width of female and male samples. (e) Pectineous teeth number of female and male samples. (f) Annotation results with the database of GO, KEGG, Pfam, Swissprot, eggNOG, and NR, respectively. (g) Volcano plot of the differential expression unigenes. The red dots represent the upregulated unigenes, whereas the dark blue ones represent the downregulated unigenes.

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