Selection and validation of reference genes for real-time RT-PCR studies in the non-model species Delomys sublineatus, an endemic Brazilian rodent

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 392, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-149

  Weyrich, Alexandra ^a   Axtner, Jan ^a   Sommer, Simone ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BestKeeper; geNorm; Normalization; NormFinder; Relative quantification; Software programs

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ACCURACY; ACTB GENE; ACTG1 GENE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANX GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELOMYS SUBLINEATUS; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PGK1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAIN FOREST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SDHA GENE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES; MICE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMODONTINAE; TREES;

DELOMYS; DELOMYS SUBLINEATUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 75949114872     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.12.173     Document Type: Article

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