Enabling comparative gene expression studies of thyroid hormone action through the development of a flexible real-time quantitative PCR assay for use across multiple anuran indicator and sentinel species

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 148, Issue , 2014, Pages 162-173

  Veldhoen, Nik ^a   Propper, Catherine R ^b   Helbing, Caren C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anuran; Frog tadpole; Metamorphosis; Multispecies assay; Normalizer; Quantitative PCR; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

ANURAN; FROG TADPOLE; METAMORPHOSIS; MULTISPECIES ASSAY; NORMALIZER; QUANTITATIVE PCR; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID HORMONES; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84893485028     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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