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ArticleScientific reports2019

Identification and validation of potential reference gene for effective dsRNA knockdown analysis in Chilo partellus.

Olawale Samuel Adeyinka, Bushra Tabassum, Idrees Ahmad Nasir, Iqra Yousaf, Imtiaz Ahmad Sajid, Khurram Shehzad, Anicet Batcho, Tayyab Husnain

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Olawale Samuel AdeyinkaCentre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 53700, Pakistan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1430-9538
Bushra TabassumCentre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 53700, Pakistan. bushra.cemb@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2460-2706
Idrees Ahmad NasirCentre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 53700, Pakistan.
Iqra YousafCentre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 53700, Pakistan.
Imtiaz Ahmad SajidCentre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 53700, Pakistan.
Khurram ShehzadSAHARA Medical College, Narowal, Pakistan.
Anicet BatchoCentre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 53700, Pakistan.
Tayyab HusnainCentre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 53700, Pakistan.
University of the Punjab · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chilo partellus is an invasive polyphagous pest that has not been effectively managed with chemical pesticides. To select potential dsRNAs for use in an alternate control strategy, it is crucial to identify and evaluate stable reference genes for knockdown expression studies. This study evaluates the expression stability of seven candidate reference genes in C. partellus larvae fed on crude bacterially-expressed dsRNAs and purified dsRNAs at different time intervals, as well as the developmental stages and sexes. The expression stabilities of the reference genes were evaluated with different software programmes, such as BestKeeper, NormFinder, deltaCt, geNorm, and RefFinder. The overall results rank ELF as the most stably expressed reference gene when larvae were fed with crude bacteria-induced dsRNAs and purified dsRNA. However, Tubulin and HSP70 were more stable under different developmental stages and sexes. The expression levels of larvae that were fed crude bacteria-induced dsRNAs of Chitinase and Acetylcholinesterase were normalized with the four most stable reference genes (ELF, HSP70, V-ATPase and Tubulin) and the least stable reference gene (18S and HSP70) based on the geNorm algorithm. The least stable reference gene showed inconsistent knockdown expression, thereby confirming that the validation of a suitable reference gene is crucial to improve assay accuracy for dsRNA-targeted gene selection in C. partellus.

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AnimalsComputational BiologyFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Knockdown TechniquesInsect ProteinsLarvaLepidopteraMaleReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReference StandardsRNA, Double-StrandedSoftwareInsect ProteinsRNA, Double-Stranded

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PMID31541183
PMCPMC6754392
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