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Research article2014Peer reviewedOpen access

Analysis of reference gene stability after Israeli acute paralysis virus infection in bumblebees Bombus terrestris

Niu, Jinzhi; Cappelle, Kaat; Rodrigues De Miranda, Joachim; Smagghe, Guy; Meeus, Ivan

Abstract

To date, there are no validated internal reference genes for the normalization of RT-qPCR data from virus infection experiments with pollinating insects. In this study we evaluated the stability of five candidate internal reference genes: elongation factor-1 -alpha (ELF1 alpha), peptidylprolyl isomerase A (PPIA), 60S ribosomal protein L23 (RPL23), TATA-binding protein (TBP) and polyubiquitin (UBI), in relation to Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) infection of Bombus terrestris. We investigated the stability of these genes: in whole bodies and individual body parts, as well as in whole bodies collected at different time intervals after infection with IAPV. Our data identified PPIA as the single, most-optimal internal reference gene and the combination of PPAI-RPL23-UBI as a fully-sufficient multiple internal reference genes set for IAPV infection experiments in B. terrestris. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Gene expression; Bee virus; RT-qPCR; Dicistroviruses; qBase(PLUS)

Published in

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
2014, Volume: 115, pages: 76-79 Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2013.10.011

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/63764