Overview of the contigs that have been selected by tag-based evaluation for qRT-PCR analysis.

The different columns show the sequence ID of the contig, the number of tags referring to the origin (C: crowded-reared; I: isolated-reared) of the composing ESTs per contig, the annotation of the sequence and the primers that have been used for the qRT-PCR assays. The contigs printed in bold black are those for which the corresponding transcript levels were significantly different in nervous tissue of crowded- and isolated-reared locusts. The transcript levels corresponding to the contigs printed in normal black were not found to be significantly different in nervous tissue from locusts in the two phases.