Fig. 9

Gene expression in adult ovaries. Gene expression was analysed by RT-qPCR using RNA from ovaries from 5-month-old animals. The expression of genes was normalized to the expression of the housekeeping gene Rpl37a and is presented as the average signal compared to the control ± SEM; *p < 0.05, nonparametric Mann–Whitney test; n = 5 for the control and PB groups. The RT-qPCR primers are listed in Additional file 1: Table S2