Fig. 4

Gene expression patterns between specific regions of the host-infecting C. reflexa. Coloured circles indicate the normalized expression levels of respective genes in three biological replicates of the host-distal parasite region (green), the swelling side regions of the parasite (yellow), the inner haustorium (red) and the haustorium interface (blue). For each gene respectively, the biological replicate of the host-distal parasite region (green) displaying the highest normalized expression level is set to 1 and the normalized expression levels of the other samples are presented in relation. Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) in normalized expression levels between sample types are indicated