ADSL and infection: At 24 h post-infection, fat bodies from WT female mosquitoes showed 3,078- and 7,404-fold increases in transcript levels of defensin A and cecropin A, respectively, relative to mock-infected insects, while fat bodies from infected KO mosquitoes showed only 637- and 664-fold increases in the in the transcript levels of the same AMPs (Fig 3C and 3D).