Fig. 4

Illustrations of total 2724 DEGs with specifications. a MA plots showing the expression levels and fold-changes of the DEGs detected in MHT&CK, SHT&CK, and SHT&MHT. The x-axis is the log₂ value of normalized counts, and the y-axis stands for the log₂ fold-change of each unigene. Grey dots (NS) are non-DEGs, red dots (UP) are up-regulated DEGs, and blue dots (DOWN) are down-regulated DEGs; b a Venn diagram showing the distribution and overlap of the DEGs in each comparison