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Table 1 Candidate reference genes and their functions

From: The use of reference gene selection programs to study the silvering transformation in a freshwater eel Anguilla australis: a cautionary tale

Gene name

Gene abbreviations

Function

Elongation factor-1α

eef1

Catalysation of GTP-dependent binding of amynoacyl-total RNA to the ribosome; translational factor

Î’-actin

Actb

Component of the cytoskeleton and mediates cell motility

Ornithine decarboxylase 1

odc1

Involved in the urea cycle as rate limiting enzyme in polyamine synthesis, carboxylating L-onithine into diamine putrescine

18 s ribosomal RNA

18s

Part of the small ribosomal subunit

60 S ribosomal protein L36

l36

Smallest protein in the large subunit of the ribosome

Nucleolar Protein 14

nop14

Processing pre 18 s rRNA and export of 40 s pre-ribosomal unit to cytoplasm