DEPC-treated
Pacific abalone (Haliotis discus hannai) used in this study were obtained from an aquaculture farm located in Wando, Korea, and maintained in laboratory rearing tanks. Untreated abalones were dissected, and tissues were preserved in RNAlater (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) and stored at 80  until use. Among the dissected tissues, hemocytes were immediately subjected to RNA extraction, followed by next-generation sequencing (NGS) for transcriptome analysis.