Table 3

Primers used in the PCR experiments

Fish
Primer
Sequence primer (5'-3')

D. rerio
DAG1_s
CCAGCCTTTCATCTGTGGCAA
D. rerio
DAG1_as
CTTCGCACCCTTTTGGGCAC
D. rerio
ACT_s
TCTTGACCCTGAAGTACCCCATT
D. rerio
ACT_as
TCCTTGATGTCGCGCACAAT
D. labrax
FISH_ext_s
GGGCTTCAGCACATGAAGAT
D. labrax
FISH_ext_as
CTGTAGGG(A/G)GTCATGTTCTT
D. labrax
ACT s
TCCTGACCCTGAAGTACCCCA
D. labrax
ACT as
TTGATGTCACGCACGATTTCC
T. nigroviridis
DAG1a s
CAGACGTTCCTGTGTGAGGGG
T. nigroviridis
DAG1a as
GCTTCGGAAGGTGCTGCTTC
T. nigroviridis
DAG1b s
AGCTCAGCCTCTCACCTGTAGC
T. nigroviridis
DAG1b as
GACTCGTTTCACTCCATGGACC
T. nigroviridis
ACT s
CACCCTGAAGTATCCCATCGAA
T. nigroviridis
ACT as
GTCTCTGACGATCTCTCGCTCAG

The primers used to amplify the gene sequences from D. rerio and T. nigroviridis were designed using the sequences available in the database. The degenerate primers FISH_ext_s and FISH_ext_as, which allowed the fishing of the newly identified D. labrax sequence, were chosen exploiting two regions displaying very high homology within the aligned DG sequences from D. rerio and T. rubripes (see also Fig. 1).

Pavoni et al. BMC Molecular Biology 2007 8:34   doi:10.1186/1471-2199-8-34