“…The DEGs that were up-regulated included actin-like, actin, muscle-like, cuticle protein 7-like, cuticle protein CP1158-like, myosin regulatory light chain 2like, transmembrane protein 53-like and tubulin-tyrosine ligaselike protein 12, transcript variant X1 in N-P2; actin-3, musclespecific-like, keratin, type I cytoskeletal 10-like, keratinassociated protein 19-2-like, myoferlin-like, myosin heavy chain, muscle-like, pupal cuticle protein 36a-like and transmembrane protein 53-B-like in N-P36; and actin-2, muscle-specific-like, cuticle protein 7-like, transcript variant X1, cuticle protein AMP1A-like, cuticle protein CP14.6-like, cuticular protein 47Eg-like, keratin-associated protein 16-1like, protein Skeletor, isoforms B/C-like, pupal cuticle protein Edg-84A-like and troponin C-like, transcript variant X1 in N-P48. The results indicated that the up-regulation of cytoskeleton remodeling-associated genes expression may confer stress protection and allow shrimp to respond to pathogen invasion or drastic environmental changes, in agreement with findings from previous studies (37). Moreover, we found that the expression of cytoskeleton-related genes showed temporal differences.…”