Fig. 4

Results from the qPCR analysis of selected antibacterial (A: lect2a, lect2b, igma, igmb, igd), antiviral (B: mxa, mxb, ifit5), and other immune-related (A: mhcI) transcripts, as well as transcripts involved in oxidation-reduction processes (A: mtco1, mtco2a, mtco2b). Columns and error bars represent mean relative quantity (RQ) values and S.E., respectively. Different letters above error bars represent significant differences between diets [one-way ANOVA, Tukey’s (homogeneity of variances among groups) or Games-Howell (variances not homogenous across groups) post-hoc test, p < 0.05]. Gene abbreviations (below their corresponding columns) are according to UniProt terminology