cytoskeletal rearrangement and immune activation/inflammation in the
pathogen entry and host inflammatory responses. Understanding of these responses can highlight
mechanisms of tilapia host defense, and expand our knowledge of teleost immunology. Our findings will
set a foundation of valuable biomarkers for future individual, strain, and family-level studies to evaluate
immune effect of vaccine and individual response in host defense mechanisms to S. iniae infection, to
select disease resistant families and strains.