Table 4. Descriptive statistics and stability values of candidate reference genes during anaerobic growth with different terminal electron acceptors (n = 5).

Target	dnaK	gap	gly	gyrA	gyrB	infA	pfk	polA2	rpoC	19900	20940
geo Mean [CT]	19.49	18.03	20.91	19.47	18.54	17.21	18.62	22.64	22.68	24.34	22.44
ar Mean [CT]	19.51	18.06	20.99	19.49	18.57	17.24	18.64	22.70	22.81	24.36	22.47
min [CT]	17.95	16.93	19.07	18.22	16.88	15.54	16.95	20.15	18.77	22.96	20.73
max [CT]	20.62	19.69	24.49	21.34	19.91	18.86	19.56	24.49	25.13	25.35	23.77
SD [± CT]	0.87	0.99	1.40	0.81	0.86	0.70	0.72	1.49	1.89	0.68	1.09
CV [% CT]	4.44	5.49	6.67	4.16	4.62	4.04	3.85	6.56	8.29	2.81	4.85
coeff. of corr. [r]	0.87	0.82	0.66	0.87	0.91	0.85	0.69	0.97	0.89	0.92	0.99
NF	0.454	0.510	0.939	0.481	0.321	0.451	0.590	0.519	0.819	0.287	0.224

SD = standard deviation, NF = NormFinder