Suitability of three common reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR in honey bees

Apidologie

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 342-350

  Reim, Tina ^a   Thamm, Markus ^a   Rolke, Daniel ^a   Blenau, Wolfgang ^b   Scheiner, Ricarda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; gene expression; quantitative PCR; reference gene; stability program

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HONEYBEE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84877835714     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-012-0184-3     Document Type: Article

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