EcR transcriptionally regulates genes involved in phagocytosis.

Among the genes significantly up-regulated in control hemocytes at metamorphosis (p<0.001; linear FC and p values indicated on the table) and significantly down-regulated in EcRB1DN-expressing hemocytes (p<0.001; linear FC and p values indicated on the table), 35 genes were annotated by Flybase with the GO term phagocytosis or found in S2 cell-based RNAi screens for phagocytosis phenotype [9], [20], [55]–[57].
FC: linear Fold Change; in bold: genes for which expression pattern was confirmed by qPCR. All p values are <0.001, no FC threshold was applied.