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Fig. 4

From: Sperm competition risk drives plasticity in seminal fluid composition

Fig. 4

Proteomics analysis of key secreted seminal vesicle proteins. Combined data from all HSC and LSC mice were used in a label-free quantitative proteomics analysis of seminal vesicle proteins (Additional file 1). From these data, requiring at least three unique peptides for quantification and identification, the expression of the proteins was recovered and plotted on a protein-by-protein basis. Panel (a) ‘classical’ SVS proteins 1 to 7, panel (b) serine protease inhibitors and (c) other proteins relevant to coagulation, plug formation and survival, or sperm motility. Data are presented as notched box and whisker plots where the midline is the median, box extremes define 25th and 75th percentiles, and the notches are calculated as ([75th-25th percentile value] * 1.57/sqrt(N); whiskers define extreme data points. N = 14 for HSC and 16 for LSC. HSC high sperm competition, LSC low sperm competition

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