Genes exhibiting deviant expression levels in <i>hand</i>^<i>173</i> animals, as confirmed by qRT-PCR.

Genes listed are either expressed in heart tissue or involved in muscle and heart development, maintenance or function. Deviating expression of the particular genes in hand173 animals is depicted in percent (%) relative to the respective expression in wild type specimen, which was set to 100%. Statistically significant deviations are indicated (* P<0.05; ** P<0.01, Student´s t-test). Functional classification of the corresponding protein products was done manually utilizing data from NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) and Flybase (http://flybase.org/). Values represent means of at least three independent qRT-PCR experiments.