Figure 8.
Silencing of AATs genes expression and their effect on B. tabaci B. (A) Effect of feeding of B. tabaci B adults with dsEGFP, dsAAAP15, or dsAAAP21 on the relative expression of AAT genes at 48 h post-RNAi. The mRNA levels are shown as a ratio relative to the levels of the reference gene EF-1α. (B and C) Mortality of B. tabaci B adults after feeding on dsEGFP, dsAAAP15, or dsAAAP21 for (B) 2 days or (C) 7 days. Within each panel, different letters indicate significant differences between treatments (P < 0.05; Holm-Sidak's test; n = 3).