Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma marginale Elicit Different Gene Expression Responses in Cultured Tick Cells
Figure 3
Effect of A. phagocytophilum and A. marginale infection on tick ISE6 cells gene expression. The mRNA levels were compared between A. phagocytophilum- (white bars) and A. marginale- (black bars) infected tick ISE6 cells by real-time RT-PCR. Bars represent the ratio between infected normalized Ct values and uninfected average normalized Ct values (+SD). The mRNA levels were normalized against tick 16S rRNA and compared between A. phagocytophilum- and A. marginale-infected tick cells by Student’s -test (*). Positive and negative values denote upregulation and downregulation, respectively, with respect to uninfected controls.
