Figure 5
Heat map depicting the expression of immune genes of adult Crassostrea gigas infected with OsHV-1, Vibrio aestuarianus and V. tasmaniensis LGP32. The expression of each target gene was normalised to the transcript level of control groups (adults injected with sterile seawater) at each sampling time point (1, 2, 3 and 4Â days post-injection). Adult oysters in the early stages of OsHV-1 infection (A2) cluster separately to adult oysters in the early (A3) and late (A4) stages of Vibrio infection. Hierarchical clustering did not reveal a distinction in the transcriptional response of adult C. gigas infected with V. aestuarianus or V. tasmaniensis LGP32.