Project description:To allow estimation of the complexity of the antennal transcriptome between sexes as well as in comparison with a non-antennal tissue, microarrays were designed based on an assembly of new 454 sequence data from the antenna and publicly available data including 454 data from the larval midgut. The microarrays were hybridized with samples generated from the repsecitve tissues from 3 (antenna) and 5 (midgut) animals per sample, with four independent samples per sex (antenna) and tissue (midgut).
Project description:The humoral immune response of Galleria mellonella exposed to Mycobacterium bovis BCG (vaccine strain), 1x107 CFU (10 ul inoculum) were injected into the larvae. For low dose BCG challenge, 1x105 CFU (10 ul) were injected. For larval challenge with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP), ~1.5x106 CFU (10 ul) were injected. APP were only challenged at this single dose. For larval challenge with Control (0h) were included. APP and low dose (1x105 CFU) BCG were sampled only at 48 h post infection.