Table 4.

Stability of the eight candidate genes at different developmental stages of B. mucronatus based on Cq values evaluated by BestKeeper software.

	ACT	EF	TUB	HIS	PMP	UBCE	UBQ	18S rRNA
SD	1.16	0.98	0.61	0.78	1.49	1.17	0.98	0.64
CV	5.11	3.12	2.70	3.42	6.13	5.08	4.60	3.30
r	0.746	0.690	0.987	0.931	0.411	0.990	0.986	0.853
p	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001

SD, standard deviation; CV, Coefficient of variation; r, coefficient of correlation; p, p-value.