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Chapter 4<br />

WSSV genes viz. endonuclease, immediate early gene, latency related gene,<br />

protein kinase, <strong>and</strong> thymidine kinase higher levels of transcripts could be<br />

detected. However, in these samples also the expression levels remained<br />

more or less similar until post-challenge day 4. After that, the amount of all<br />

WSSV gene transcripts dramatically increased from 5 th day post-challenge<br />

<strong>and</strong> continued to increase during the experimental period. The expression<br />

kinetics of the various WSSV gene transcripts were thus found to be quite<br />

similar in that all genes were found to be expressed during 1 st or 2 nd day<br />

post-challenge onwards <strong>and</strong> were found to be expressed at maximum level<br />

at the later stages of WSSV infection i.e. from 5 th day of post-challenge<br />

onwards. This in turn shows that WSSV infection has reached its peak from<br />

5 th day onwards.<br />

The present results are in agreement with previous works by Liu et al.<br />

(2005) in which, expression profile of DNA polymerase <strong>and</strong> VP28 was<br />

studied for 36 hours post-challenge WSSV. Lin et al. (2002) has studied the<br />

time-course of ribonucleotide reductase for 84 hrs of post-WSSV challenge.<br />

Lu et al. (2005) have studied the time-course analysis of immediate early<br />

gene for 48 hrs post-challenge WSSV injection. The results showed that the<br />

WSSV gene were transcribed as early as 2 hours post-challenge <strong>and</strong> after<br />

that, the amount transcripts continued to increase until the end of the<br />

analysis. Similar results have been reported by earlier researchers for VP35<br />

gene (Chen et al., 2002a), DNA polymerase gene (Chen et al., 2002b), protein<br />

kinase gene (Liu et al., 2001), ribonucleotide reductase gene (Tsai et al.,<br />

2000a) <strong>and</strong> thymidine kinase gene (Tsai et al., 2000b). Viral replication could<br />

be the predominant process in the haemocytes of WSSV-infected shrimp,<br />

allowing them to overcome the expression of shrimp immune related genes<br />

(Chen et al., 2008b). In the present study also, viral replication was found to<br />

overcome immune response in the experimental animals during late hours of<br />

WSSV infection, except for ALF <strong>and</strong> crustin-3.<br />

<strong>Molecular</strong> <strong>Characterization</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Gene</strong> <strong>Expression</strong> <strong>Profiling</strong> of Antimicrobial Peptides in Penaeid Shrimps<br />

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