TS participated in the microarray construction, study design and manuscript writing and cultured the flies and extracted the RNA for the microarray study.
TLN performed B. bronchiseptica culturing, microarray design, microarray construction, microarray analysis, cluster analysis, quantitative real-time PCR analysis, data analysis, and drafted the manuscript.
MPCF: performed all exposures and RNA isolations, participated in assembly and annotation, participated in microarray construction, performed data analysis, participated in design and coordination of the study, drafted the manuscript.
AW designed the study, participated in tissue microarray construction, immunohistochemical analyses, drafted the manuscript, read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
DR: designed and coordinated the study, drafted the manuscript, participated in microarray construction, participated in annotation and data analysis.
The authors would like to thank David Barber and Bill Farmerie for their guidance with the microarray construction, with additional thanks to David Barber for his help with the design of the exposure study.
AK performed the moult staging, animal husbandry and sampling, library preparation, sequencing, bioinformatic analysis of the ESTs, microarray construction, microarray hybridizations, and interpretation of the data, contributed to the experimental design and drafted the manuscript.
LG performed sampling, library preparation, sequencing, bioinformatics analysis of the ESTs, microarray construction, microarray hybridizations, in situ hybridizations, interpretation of the data, and contributed to the overall conception, experimental design of the project and drafting of the manuscript.
Cell lysates were stored at –80°C prior to microarray construction.
Performed microarray construction and analysis.
