Table 2.

The primers related to mitochondrial DNA copy number used to determine the expression of genes by qRT-PCR in this study.

Gene	Forward Primer	Reverse Primer
Mitochondrial DNA	5’-CCA CTG TAA AGC TAA CTT AGC ATT AAC-3’	5’-GTG ATG AGG AAT AGT GTA AGG AGT ATG G-3’
Nuclear DNA	5’-CCA GAA AAT AAA TCA GAT GGT ATG TAA CA-3’	5’-TGG TTT AGG GTT GCT TCC-3’
Mitochondrial DNA probe	5’-JOE-CCA ACA CCT CTT TAC AGT GAA ATG CCC CA-BHQ1-3’
Nuclear DNA probe	5’-JOE-CAG CAC TTC TTT TGA GCA CAC GGT CG-BHQ1-3’