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More stable reference genes in a mouse sex-dimorphic brain development identified

Researchers have identified and analyzed 10 reference genes in a Mus musculus via methods that may be of general interest across a number of fields where qPCR and normalization are used.

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Developing the Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): testing the stimulus features that influence embedding
Psychiatry and Psychology
Lee de-Wit, Hanne Huygelier, Ruth Van der Hallen, Rebecca Chamberlain, Johan Wagemans
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Three new karst-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata; Gekkoniade) from Peninsular Thailand and the phylogenetic placement of C. punctatonuchalis and C. vandeventeri
Genetics Taxonomy Zoology
Perry Lee Wood Jr, L. Lee Grismer, Anchalee Aowphol, César A. Aguilar, Micheal Cota, Marta S. Grismer, Matthew L. Murdoch, Jack W. Sites Jr
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The DNA methylation level against the background of the genome size and t-heterochromatin content in some species of the genus Secale L
Biodiversity Genomics Plant Science
Anna Kalinka, Magdalena Achrem, Paulina Poter
24 January
History of kidney stones and risk of chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis
Epidemiology Nephrology Urology
Weifeng Shang, Lixi Li, Yali Ren, Qiangqiang Ge, Ming Ku, Shuwang Ge, Gang Xu
24 January
Exploration of immunoglobulin transcriptomes from mice immunized with three-finger toxins and phospholipases A2 from the Central American coral snake, Micrurus nigrocinctus
Bioinformatics Biotechnology Toxicology Immunology Synthetic Biology
Andreas H. Laustsen, Mikael Engmark, Christopher Clouser, Sonia Timberlake, Francois Vigneault, José María Gutiérrez, Bruno Lomonte
24 January
Bells, bomas and beefsteak: complex patterns of human-predator conflict at the wildlife-agropastoral interface in Zimbabwe
Agricultural Science Animal Behavior Conservation Biology Ecology Zoology
Andrew J. Loveridge, Timothy Kuiper, Roger H. Parry, Lovemore Sibanda, Jane Hunt Hunt, Brent Stapelkamp, Lovelater Sebele, David W. Macdonald
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