Selection of internal reference gene for quantitative real‐time PCR analysis of gene expression in largemouth bass ( Micropterus salmoides ) under different experimental conditions

Abstract

The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is native to the United States and belongs to eurythermal fish (Xia et al., 2018). In addition to living in fresh water, largemouth bass also has a certain adaptability to low salinity (Zhang & He, 1994). With the rapid development of artificial breeding and aquaculture technology, largemouth bass has become an economically important fish species in China (Bai et al., 2008). In recent years, the researches of largemouth bass have mainly focused on genetic diversity (Dong et al., 2019;