Among the most relevant genes here identified in the two infection‐level scenarios inspected, the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase [GTP], a key enzyme related to energy balance through gluconeogenesis but also involved in bacteria recognition and elimination (Lv et al. 2017), and several proteasome‐related genes, involved in cell proliferation and differentiation, replication of protozoan parasites, and stress response (Fernández‐Boo et al., 2014; Portilho et al. 2019), were also differentially expressed in the two functional studies outlined before. This evidence concerns the gene MTG1 and infection.