Gene expression response to recovery from chronic cold exposure (CE, solid lines) or cold shock (CS, dashed lines) analyzed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> larvae of two strains, Oregon (blue symbols) and Hsp70^- (red symbols).

<p>Log2-transformed values of the fold-differences in relative mRNA levels (shown in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0128976#pone.0128976.s004" target="_blank">S4 Fig</a>) were fitted into the PCA model and a plot of principal components PC1 and PC2 is presented. The ellipsoids in lower part of Fig 6 delimit the areas of clustering of three biological replications of each sample. Samples were taken at three different times (1h, 3h, 24h) of recovery at constant 18°C. The eigenvectors in the upper part of Fig 6 represent individual mRNAs.