ANOVA	Analysis of variance
BGP	Bone gla protein
BLAST	Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
bp	base pairs
cDNA	Complementary Deoxyribonucleic acid
DW	dry weight
GCCX	γ-glutamyl carboxylase (Ggcx)
hpf	hours post-fertilization
JTT	Jones-Taylor-Thornton
MEGA	Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis
MGP	Matrix gla protein
MK-4	Menaquinone 4
MK-7	Menaquinone 7
M-MLV	Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus
M-MLV	Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus
MUSCLE	MUltiple Sequence Comparison by Log-Expectation
no	number
PCR	Polymerase Chain Reaction
PSI-BLAST	Position Specific Iterated Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
PXR	Pregnane X receptor
qPCR	Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
RACE	Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
SNPs	Single nucleotide polymorphisms
UBQ	Ubiquitin
UBUAD1	UbiA prenyltransferase domain-containing protein 1
VK1	Vitamin K1 - phylloquinone
VK2	Vitamin K2 - menaquinone
VK3	Vitamin K3 - menadione
VK	Vitamin K
VKDPs	Vitamin K dependent proteins
VKOR	Vitamin K epoxide reductase
VKORC1	Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1
VKORC1L1	Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1 like protein 1
VKORS	Vitamin K epoxide reductases