Selection of Reference Genes for RT-qPCR Analysis in the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus (L.), a Migrating Bio-Indicator

• Huipeng Pan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huipeng Pan, Xiaowei Yang

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Xiaowei Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huipeng Pan, Xiaowei Yang

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Keith Bidne,

  Affiliation Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Richard L. Hellmich,

  Affiliation Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Blair D. Siegfried,

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Xuguo Zhou

  * E-mail: xuguozhou@uky.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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