Selection of suitable reference genes for RT-qPCR analyses in cyanobacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pinto, Filipe ^a,b   Pacheco, Catarina C ^a   Ferreira, Daniela ^a,b,c   Moradas Ferreira, Pedro ^a,b   Tamagnini, Paula ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGORITHM; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYNGBYA; LYNGBYA AESTUARII; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNECHOCYSTIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84859347775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034983     Document Type: Article

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