post-amputation body length / post-amputation body length) was compared between
chemically treated and control embryos using Student’s t-test. For the
microarray experiment, several quality control methods were used to examine
expression values across the 65 GeneChips in the experiment. Box plots were
generated in Expression Console (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA) to examine the
consistency of expression across arrays, and principal components analysis and
Mahalanobis distances were calculated in JMP to examine array clustering in
multivariate space. One of the GeneChips (12 hr non-treated) was identified as
an outlier and removed from the experiment. All of the retained GeneChips were
normalized using Affymetrix Expression Console software to accomplish robust
multichip averaging (RMA) (
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time point to identify probe sets that yielded significantly different average
expression values as a function of treatment. These lists were further filtered
using a false discovery rate of α = 0.05 and by requiring a 1.5
fold difference between treatment means.