Table 2.

Stability of candidate reference gene expression under different experimental conditions.

Conditions	CRGs∗	geNorm		Normfider		BestKeeper		ΔCt
		Stability	Rank	Stability	Rank	Stability	Rank	Stability	Rank
Developmental	18S	1.032	6	0.154	1	0.876	6	1.658	4
Stage	28S	0.901	5	0.409	2	0.620	4	1.560	2
	16S	0.668	1	0.710	3	0.338	1	1.459	1
	EF1A	0.720	2	1.429	6	0.734	5	1.765	6
	NADH	0.819	4	0.806	4	0.581	3	1.592	3
	Actin	1.440	7	2.209	7	1.893	7	2.697	7
	Tubulin	0.743	3	1.145	5	0.578	2	1.670	5
	ArgK	1.997	8	3.815	8	3.041	8	3.947	8
Tissue	18S	0.350	1	0.175	1	0.372	3	1.043	4
	28S	0.350	1	0.175	1	0.350	2	1.040	3
	16S	0.423	2	0.210	2	0.157	1	0.996	1
	EF1A	0.597	5	0.830	3	0.845	6	1.287	6
	NADH	0.464	3	0.210	2	0.398	5	1.020	2
	Actin	0.922	6	1.731	4	1.249	7	1.908	7
	Tubulin	0.498	4	0.210	2	0.389	4	1.055	5
	ArgK	1.134	7	1.793	5	1.292	8	1.978	8
dsRNA	18S	0.335	1	0.354	5	0.232	2	0.593	5
	28S	0.524	7	0.609	8	0.406	8	0.761	8
	16S	0.442	5	0.392	6	0.322	6	0.627	6
	EF1A	0.393	3	0.200	1	0.258	4	0.563	2
	NADH	0.478	6	0.462	7	0.382	7	0.684	7
	Actin	0.374	2	0.289	3	0.200	1	0.558	1
	Tubulin	0.335	1	0.287	2	0.259	5	0.576	3
	ArgK	0.412	4	0.294	4	0.241	3	0.584	4

^∗Candidate reference genes.