Figure 7From: The transcriptome landscape of Prochlorococcus MED4 and the factors for stabilizing the core genome Correlation between gene expression levels and mRNA half-lives. (a) Correlation between gene expression levels and mRNA half-lives. Red line shows loess-smoothed curve. The exceptions reported by Steglich et al.[29] were indicated with arrows (b) Box plot of the correlation between gene expression levels and mRNA half-lives (Mann–Whitney U Test, two-tailed). The line was drawn through the median. A circle represents an outlier, and an asterisk represents an extreme data point.Back to article page