Table 1.
days post microinjection | microbe | percentage of tissues with RDV, Nasuia and Sulcia signals (mean ± s.e.)a |
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epithelial plug |
symbiont ball |
oocyte |
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pre-immune serum | porin antibody | pre-immune serum | porin antibody | pre-immune serum | porin antibody | ||
5 days | RDV | 0.38 ± 0.01b | 0.20 ± 0.01c | 0.13 ± 0.01b | 0.07 ± 0.01b | 0.47 ± 0.01b | 0.26 ± 0.01c |
Sulcia and Nasuia | 0.53 ± 0.01b | 0.49 ± 0.01b | 0.21 ± 0.01b | 0.19 ± 0.01b | 0.69 ± 0.02b | 0.63 ± 0.01b | |
7 days | RDV | 0.52 ± 0.02b | 0.42 ± 0.02c | 0.33 ± 0.02b | 0.23 ± 0.01c | 0.53 ± 0.01b | 0.42 ± 0.01c |
Sulcia and Nasuia | 0.97 ± 0.02b | 0.91 ± 0.02b | 0.50 ± 0.02b | 0.47 ± 0.02b | 0.98 ± 0.02b | 0.93 ± 0.02b |
aFor each treatment, 50 samples were collected, and three replicates were performed.
b,cData for the same tissue in the same row that are followed by different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05, one-way ANOVA, Tukey's HSD test).