Table 4.

Stability value of seven candidate reference genes based on result from geNorm and NormFinder.

Reference genes	geNorm (M value)	NormFinder (V value)
YWHAZ	0.62	0.14
ACTB	0.96	0.57
SDHA	0.66	0.33
HPRT1	0.78	0.46
HMBS	0.65	0.08
GAPDH	0.58	0.17
TUBB1	1.1	0.7

Results from three biological replicates (n = 3). One biological replicate of each sample consisted of IEL-28.4⁺ cells harvested from 8 chickens.