News Finding: When the creosote was a new addition to the diet of individual N.bryanti woodrats, they had different reactions.
Paper Finding: There were significant differences in expression related to experience with creosote between N. bryanti populations.
News Context: We expected a huge list of genes -- instead we found very few." When the creosote was a new addition to the diet of individual N.bryanti woodrats, they had different reactions. They exhibited signs of severe stress, showing that because they hadn't been exposed to the diet, the genes to detoxify it hadn't been switched on.
Paper Context: All other biotransformation transcripts across all groups exhibited inductions of 7-fold or less. There were significant differences in expression related to experience with creosote between N. bryanti populations. Although the total number of transcripts with greater expression in both the experienced and naïve was similar (199 in experienced vs. 183 naïve, [Table 2A with list of genes in Additional file 3: Table S2 ]), the experienced population expressed absolutely twice as many transcripts for biotransformation enzymes (Table 2A,  Χ  2 = 14 .72, df = 1, p < 0.001).