Serious Overestimation in Quantitative PCR by Circular (Supercoiled) Plasmid Standard: Microalgal pcna as the Model Gene

• Yubo Hou ,

  * E-mail: yhou@wadsworth.org

  Current address: Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Huan Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Lilibeth Miranda,

  Current address: AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Senjie Lin

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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