Normalizing for biology: Accounting for technical and biological variation in levels of reference gene and insulin-like growth factor 1 (igf1) transcripts in fish livers

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-14

  Metzger, David C ^a,b   Luckenbach, J Adam ^a   Shimizu, Munetaka ^c   Beckman, Brian R ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish; Growth; Housekeeping gene; IGF1; Liver; MRNA; Reference gene; RNA:DNA ratio

Indexed keywords

DNA; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGY; BODY SIZE; CELL COUNT; GENE; GENE ARP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLYCOGEN LIVER LEVEL; LIVER; LIVER SIZE; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

EID: 84862906908     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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