Table 4. Results of qPCR experiments.
| Gene | Male | Female | ||||
| Infecteda | Uninfecteda | Pb | Infecteda | Uninfecteda | Pb | |
| Attacin-A | 5.51 (1.50) | 5.45 (1.49) | 0.949 | 5.26 (1.73) | 4.52 (1.07) | 0.088 |
| Drosocin | 14.05 (1.60) | 13.65 (2.11) | 0.848 | 14.20 (1.96) | 13.05 (0.93) | 0.180 |
| PGRP-SC2 | 4.19 (0.45) | 4.08 (0.56) | 0.949 | 4.40 (0.33) | 3.79 (0.42) | 0.011 |
| Tudor-SN | 5.99 (0.78) | 6.18 (0.80) | 0.482 | 7.06 (1.03) | 7.61 (0.54) | 0.338 |
| Act88F | 7.82 (0.86) | 7.86 (0.83) | 0.610 | 10.46 (1.25) | 10.16 (1.04) | 0.522 |
a
Shown are the mean ΔCt values (standard deviation) relative to the control ribosomal protein gene, RpL32, for seven biological replicates of each gene/treatment.
b
Two-tailed P-value from Mann-Whitney test.