To expand on these initial findings, we screened, by qRT-PCR, an expanded list of host genes encoding components of the Dectin signaling pathway, including the gene encoding the upstream SYK adapter protein Smed-syk (syk) and downstream gene components Smed-card (card), Smed-bcl (bcl), Smed-malt1 (malt1), Smed-tab1 (tab1), and Smed-tak (tak) during early infection with C. albicans (Wagener et al., 2018). The gene discussed is CDK9; the disease is infection.