highly significantp < 0.05
Similar to the blood and gill tissues, a highly significant ( p < 0.05) expression of LrIRF9 gene expression was detected in the A. hydrophila- infected fish PBLs at 6 h (∼3000 fold) ( Fig. 7 f ) and also in the RBCs at 6 h (∼2.3 fold) at 6 h ( Fig. 7 e ).