A transcriptomic insight into the infective juvenile stage of the insect parasitic nematode, Heterorhabditis indica

Table 6 RNAi effector genes discovered in the IJ stage of the H. indica

S. No.	C. elegans ortholog	H. indica IJ	H. bacteriophora
Small RNA biosynthetic proteins
Total	10	6	2
1	drh-3	+	-
2	drsh-1	+	+
3	xpo-1	+	-
4	xpo-2	+	-
5	dcr-1	+	+
6	drh-1	+	-
dsRNA uptake and spreading and siRNA amplification effectors
Total	12	4	5
7	smg-2	+	+
8	smg-6	+	-
9	ego-1	+	+
10	smg-5	-	+
11	rsd-3	+	+
12	sid-1	-	+
Argonautes (AGOs)
Total	28	3	1
13	alg-1	+	-
14	rde-1	-	+
15	ppw-2	+	-
16	nrde-3	+	-
RNA-induced Silencing Complex (RISC) components
Total	4	2	2
17	tsn-1	+	+
18	ain-1a	+	-
19	vig-1	-	+
RNAi inhibitors
Total	9	2	0
20	eri-1	+	-
21	xrn-2	+	-
Nuclear RNAi effectors
Total	15	7	2
22	mut-7	+	-
23	cid-1	+	-
24	gfl-1	+	+
25	mes-2	+	-
26	rha-1	+	-
27	zfp-1	+	+
28	mut-2	+	-

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