Identifying reference genes with stable expression from high throughput sequence data

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Alexander, Harriet ^a,b   Jenkins, Bethany D ^c,d   Rynearson, Tatiana A ^c   Saito, Mak A ^b   Mercier, Melissa L ^c   Dyhrman, Sonya T ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Diatom; Housekeeping genes; Phytoplankton; Reference gene; Relative gene expression; RT qPCR; Thalassiosira pseudonana; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875859432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00385     Document Type: Article

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