The Evolution of Pepsinogen C Genes in Vertebrates: Duplication, Loss and Functional Diversification

• Luís Filipe Costa Castro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luís Filipe Costa Castro, Monica Lopes-Marques

  * E-mail: filipe.castro@ciimar.up.pt (LFC); wilson.jm.cimar@gmail.com (JMW)

  Affiliation CIMAR Associate Laboratory, CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, UPorto–University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Monica Lopes-Marques ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luís Filipe Costa Castro, Monica Lopes-Marques

  Affiliation CIMAR Associate Laboratory, CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, UPorto–University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Odete Gonçalves,

  Affiliations CIMAR Associate Laboratory, CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, UPorto–University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Jonathan Mark Wilson

  * E-mail: filipe.castro@ciimar.up.pt (LFC); wilson.jm.cimar@gmail.com (JMW)

  Affiliation CIMAR Associate Laboratory, CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, UPorto–University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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