Fig. 5
Quantitative rtPCR results for scale tissues. Box and whisker plot showing expression levels relative to the housekeeping gene, beta actin. All data points are shown as black dots. Error bars extend to the maximum and minimum values for each group, not including outliers. The center of each box depicts the median, and the upper and lower hinges correspond to the third and first quartiles, respectively. Relative expression is calculated via the comparative CT method. Along the x-axis, species names followed by “scale” indicates expression in tissue around normally growing scales. Species names followed by “regen” indicates expression in scales after one week of regeneration. Asterisks indicate significance at the p < 0.05 (*) and p < 0.01 (**) levels
