Figure 4.
Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) validations of 26 differentially expressed genes in AC (red), AM (green) and AF (blue). For each qRT-PCR validation, three technical replications were performed, beta-tubulin gene was used as internal control. All results were expressed as means ± standard error (SE) of the number of experiments. The lowercase ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’ indicated that statistically significant difference of mRNA level was considered on an error probability of p < 0.05 by one-way ANOVA using Duncan’s multiple-range test.