Expression analyses of foxp3a:EGFP-positive cells. (A) Heat map of T reg signature genes as defined by Sugimoto et al. (2006). Mouse gene names are indicated. Only genes with a normalized read count >10 are shown, as are genes with unambiguous zebrafish-to-mouse orthology, except for Foxp3, for which expression values of foxp3a are represented. (B) Top, GSEA showing that expression of a T reg signature, as defined by Sugimoto et al. (2006), is enriched in zebrafish foxp3a:EGFP cells. Bottom, GSEA showing enrichment of a broader T reg signature, as defined by Hill et al. (2007). (C) Violin plots from single-cell analyses showing that the expression profile of foxp3a:EGFP-positive cells is biased to that of mature (TCR+) cd4-1+cd8a– lymphocytes. Cell populations were assigned from single-cell analyses of sorted lck:EGFP-positive (Lck) and thymic (double-negative [DN], double-positive [DP], CD4, and CD8) cells. By ANOVA, foxp3a (P = 1.61 × 10–22), cd4-1 (P = 1.02 × 10–36), cd8a (P = 1.35 × 10–58), TCRα (P = 2.60 × 10–6), and TCRβ (P = 5.18 × 10–8).