Fig. 6.

Effect of AGO2 silencing on selected GpSGHV transcript levels in G. pallidipes, following AGO2 knockdown. RT-qPCR expression analysis of (a) GpSGHV odv-e66 gene, (b) GpSGHV dnapol gene, (c) GpSGHV tegument gene and (d) GpSGHV capsid gene post virus injection, following AGO2 and tsetse EP (control) dsRNAs injection. Gene expression values were normalized to β–tubulin gene and transformed by the Box-Cox process (log(Expression)). Regression lines marked with the same lower-case letter do not differ at the 0.05 level