Gene expression profiles selected for simulations.

aThe interacting genes are included in the interaction matrix, while the maternal gene is merely a regulator with a constant profile. The four genes are selected from the groups indicated in Table 1 (see text).
bThe expression profiles at 0 hours serve as initialization for the simulations. The profiles at 25 hours and 50 hours are used as fitting targets to rank the simulation models. The table entries refer to the profiles in Dataset S1 and are plotted in Figure 8. “zeros” means no observed expression and represents a list of zeros.