Conservation of eliminated nematode genes and their expression during spermatogenesis. (A) Conservation of eliminated genes among Ascaris, Parascaris, and Toxocara (see Supplemental Material). The color-coded values illustrate the direct gene comparison for each genus. Note that there is more than one value as not all gene comparisons among these nematodes correspond to a 1:1 match. (B) Expression of Ascaris genes that are eliminated in all three nematodes, eliminated in two nematodes, or the eliminated genes unique to Ascaris (for description of the stages, see Fig. 2D). (C) Heatmap showing the expression of conserved versus nonconserved eliminated Ascaris genes in different developmental stages (for description of the stages, see Fig. 2D).
