Table 5. Comparisons of relative gene expression fold between gene expression data and qPCR results.

Name	gene ID	Fold change at 6/24/48 h (gene expression data)			qPCR fold change at 6/24/48 h
attacin	Unigene12874	15.2	4.7	3.9	210.8±59.0**	52.6±15.8**	25.1±4.2**
defensin	CL7841.Contig1	15.9	3.4	6.0	220.3±60.5**	45.1±12.9**	63.2±16.1**
diptericin	Unigene13439	12.8	9.8	5.7	180.5±51.4**	112.3±30.8**	62.9±18.5**
muscin	Unigene29893	8.3	-	1.9	55.0±16.2**	16.0±4.3**	26.0±7.6**
prophenoloxidase	Unigene28739	-	-	10.9	42.3±12.1**	51.6±10.9**	116.7±32.2**
PGRP-SD	CL486.Contig1	4.2	1.4	1.6	7.8±2.4**	1.5±0.3**	1.1±0.3*
HSP67B2	CL8219.Contig1	-	1.1	1.2	1.0±0.3	0.9±0.2	1.0±0.2
eiger	CL358.Contig2	-	1.5	3.5	2.5±0.7**	3.9±1.1**	4.8±1.1**
metallothionein	Unigene13124	-	1.2	-	1.0±0.3	1.0±0.2	3.1±0.9**
SOD	CL6208.Contig1	-	-	1.9	1.9±0.5	1.1±0.3	2.1±0.5*

Significant differences between the challenged and control group are indicated with * at P<0.05 or ** at P<0.01.