Figure 4.

Detection of viral load in E. carinicauda after infection of WSSV pre-incubated with EcALFs-LBD. ‘EcLBD2 + WSSV’, ‘EcLBD3 + WSSV’, ‘EcLBD4 + WSSV’, and ‘EcLBD5 + WSSV’ were groups injected with 64 μM EcLBD2, EcLBD3, EcLBD4 and EcLBD5 peptide pre-incubated WSSV, respectively. ‘PBS + WSSV’ was group injected with WSSV, and ‘pGFP + WSSV’ was group injected with pGFP pre-incubated WSSV as positive controls. The copy number of WSSV was shown by measuring the expression level of VP28. Different lowercase letters (a and b) showed significant differences of copy number of WSSV between different groups at p < 0.01.