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However, previously reported reference genes may not be stably expressed across all experimental conditions and individuals. This research identified novel candidate reference genes from publicly available healthy bovine tissue transcriptomes and subsequently developed and validated primers for five candidate reference genes. Forty-one transcriptomes were obtained from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) from apparently healthy\n                    <jats:italic>Bos taurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    samples: bone marrow, bronchial lymph nodes (LN), mesenteric LN, kidney, liver, lung, nasal epithelium, unspecified LN, spleen, thymus, and trachea. Bioinformatic analysis of each dataset was performed using FastQC, Trimmomatic, STAR, and R, with library normalization carried out using the Relative Log Expression (RLE) method and normalized gene counts converted to log2-CPM values. The values for each gene across the transcriptomes were ranked by coefficient of variation (CV). 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