“…In CMAfin1 cells of P7, P19, P34, and P37, we investigated the expression of the 10 genes selected as epithelial cell markers (cytokeratin 8, KRT8 ; cadherin‐1, CDH1 ), fibroblast (vimentin, VIM ), mesenchymal (collagen type I alpha 1 chain, COL1A1 ), proliferation (proliferating cell nuclear antigen, PCNA ) cytoskeleton (actin beta, ACTB ) and stem cell marker (SRY‐box transcription factor 2, SOX2 ; SRY‐box transcription factor 9, SOX9 ; insulin‐like growth factors 1, IGF1 , and insulin‐like growth factor 2, IGF2 ). No cDNA sequences were publicly available for the selected marker genes at the beginning of the study, except for IGF1 , and − 2 , ACTB , and the chosen reference genes eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1, variant A ( EEF1A1A ), ribosomal protein L9 ( RPL9 ) and –L32 ( RPL32 ) (Nipkow et al, 2018). Therefore, we identified orthologous gene sequences from the closely related salmonid species Oncorhynchus mykiss from the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) GenBank (GB) database and used BLAST searches against the published transcriptome of C. maraena (RefSeq NCBI BioProjekt: PRJNA302355) to identify corresponding sequence fragments.…”