RNA-seq of Manduca sexta hemolymph plasma-activated Heterorhabditis bacteriophora strain TT01 infective juveniles

Profiling of the transcriptional response of an infective nematode during the early stage of infection by exposing Heterorhabditis bacteriophora infective juveniles to Manduca sexta hemolymph plasma for 9 hours. A subset of differentially expressed genes were identified as candidate parasitic genes which may provide functional insight into the process of nematode parasitism.