Table 1.

Up- and down-regulation of DEGs in the low and high inoculum cohorts throughout the experimental course

	Low inoculum			High inoculum
	Up-regulated	Down-regulated	Total	Up-regulated	Down-regulated	Total
Day 1	1 (25%)	3 (75%)	4	290 (80.6%)	70 (19.4%)	360
Day 3	193 (81.8%)	43 (18.2%)	236	751 (73.7%)	268 (26.3%)	1019
Day 4	856 (72.0%)	333 (28.0%)	1189	753 (57.0%)	568 (43.0%)	1321
Day 6	430 (70.6%)	179 (29.4%)	609	661 (55.5%)	529 (44.5%)	1190
Day 8	367 (91.3%)	35 (8.7%)	402	617 (59.6%)	419 (40.4%)	1036

Data are reported in each cell as number of DEGs (percentage of total DEGs in given inoculum on given day)