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ArticleBiomolecules2023

I Choose You: Selecting Accurate Reference Genes for qPCR Expression Analysis in Reproductive Tissues in

Maria João Ferreira, Jessy Silva, Sara Cristina Pinto, Sílvia Coimbra

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Article in Biomolecules, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria João FerreiraLAQV/REQUIMTE, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-6238-3463
Jessy SilvaLAQV/REQUIMTE, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4415-0647
Sara Cristina PintoLAQV/REQUIMTE, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
Sílvia CoimbraLAQV/REQUIMTE, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
Universidade do Porto · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a widely used method to analyse the gene expression pattern in the reproductive tissues along with detecting gene levels in mutant backgrounds. This technique requires stable reference genes to normalise the expression level of target genes. Nonetheless, a considerable number of publications continue to present qPCR results normalised to a single reference gene and, to our knowledge, no comparative evaluation of multiple reference genes has been carried out in specific reproductive tissues of

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ArabidopsisFlowersGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, PlantReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReproducibility of Resultsexpression analysisnormalisationqPCRreference genesreproductive tissues

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PMID36979397
PMCPMC10046263
OpenAlexW4322769886

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