Vertebrate Vitellogenin Gene Duplication in Relation to the “3R Hypothesis”: Correlation to the Pelagic Egg and the Oceanic Radiation of Teleosts

Roderick Nigel Finn; Børge A. Kristoffersen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000169

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Vertebrate Vitellogenin Gene Duplication in Relation to the “3R Hypothesis”: Correlation to the Pelagic Egg and the Oceanic Radiation of Teleosts

Roderick Nigel Finn ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nigel.finn@bio.uib.no

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Børge A. Kristoffersen

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Vertebrate Vitellogenin Gene Duplication in Relation to the “3R Hypothesis”: Correlation to the Pelagic Egg and the Oceanic Radiation of Teleosts

Roderick Nigel Finn,
Børge A. Kristoffersen

Published: January 24, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000169

About the Authors

Roderick Nigel Finn

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nigel.finn@bio.uib.no

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Børge A. Kristoffersen

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RF. Performed the experiments: RF. Analyzed the data: RF BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF. Wrote the paper: RF.

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