HPGDS and infection: Several genes out of the above mentioned clusters (cpr-3; spp-1, spp-2, spp-3 and ugt-44 respectively) were additionally identified to be part of the worm’s innate immune response among other differentially expressed genes, such as C-type lectins (clec-166, clec-4), the caenacin cnc-11, the infection response gene irg-2, lysozyme lys-2, a glutathione-S-transferase (gst-24), invertebrate lysozyme ilys-2, and dod-17 (“Downstream Of DAF-16”).