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Table 4 Bacterial load in infected fish

From: Transcriptional response of Atlantic salmon families to Piscirickettsia salmonis infection highlights the relevance of the iron-deprivation defence system

Family

Mean relative abundance

SEM

LS1

0.7

0.18

LS2

1.3

0.10

LS3

0.6

0.15

HS1

19.3

0.32

HS2

5.2

0.54

HS3

8.7

1.94

  1. The bacterial load (in arbitrary units) was measured by qPCR in infected head kidneys from fish from LS and HS families. Results were normalized relative to the abundance of elongation factor 1 alpha (EF1A) transcript