BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Differential transcriptional modulation of duplicated fatty acid-binding protein genes by dietary fatty acids in zebrafish (Danio rerio): evidence for subfunctionalization or neofunctionalization of duplicated genes

Santhosh Karanth1, Santosh P Lall2, Eileen M Denovan-Wright3 and Jonathan M Wright1*

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1 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4J1, Canada

2 National Research Council of Canada, Institute of Marine Biosciences, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3Z1, Canada

3 Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1X5, Canada

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:219 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-219

Published: 2 September 2009

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Fatty acid composition in different tissues of zebrafish fed experimental diets. The data represents the fatty acid composition of the intestine (Table S1), liver (Table S2), muscle (Table S3) and brain (Table S4) of zebrafish fed either diet HD, LD, LND or LFD.

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