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Figure 8

From: Analysis of anther transcriptomes to identify genes contributing to meiosis and male gametophyte development in rice

Figure 8

Identification of putative male gamete transcripts in rice. The Venn diagram shows overlap between genes that were identified as being present in TPA with microspore preferential genes [16], and homologues found by sequence similarity in the Arabidopsis sperm cell transcriptome [34], maize sperm cell ESTs [35] and the lily generative cell transcriptome [36]. The number of genes from the respective transcriptomes that could be mapped on the Rice Genome Array are bold and in italics, while the number of genes that are specifically expressed in the rice TPA transcriptome are indicated in parentheses. The red dashed line constitutes the total number of rice homologues (excluding those in parentheses) that contribute to the putative sperm cell transcriptome in rice which have been identified from the other systems examined.

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