Table 1.

Gene-specific primers used in this study

Primer	Primer sequence (5′-3′)	Sequence information
P1	CAGGAGGTTATGGATCATGTCA	Specific primer (for RACE)
P2	AGACACGAGGCACCTTTGAACT	Specific primer (for RACE)
P3 (forward)	CGCTACACTCCAACCTCCAGTA	Specific primer (real-time PCR)
P4 (reverse)	AACCTTATCCTCCAGACGGCT	Specific primer (real-time PCR)
β-actin (forward)	TCACACACTGTCCCCATCTACG	Reference gene
β-actin (reverse)	ACCACGCTCGGTCAGGATTTTC	Reference gene

β-actin was used as a reference gene (Lu et al. 2018)