Fig. 4

Differentially expressed genes (DEG) of B. bassiana ERL836 (a) and JEF-007 (b) when interacting with cuticle of western flower thrips. Thrips were exposed to 3-day old fungus-cultured plates for 3 days. Infected thrips were harvested using a surfactant solution and thrips bodies were excluded by filtering and subjected to RNA extraction. As a non-infecting control, 6-day cultured fungus was used for RNA extraction. In each isolate, the numbers of up- and down-regulated contigs (|fold change| > 2) were analyzed and GO analyses of DEGs were conducted using Blast2Go program