Developmental changes in pituitary-thyroid axis, and formation of gonads in leptocephali and glass eels of Anguilla spp

Fisheries Science

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1115-1122

  Ozaki, Yuichi ^a   Okumura, Hiromi ^a,b   Kazeto, Yukinori ^a   Ikeuchi, Toshitaka ^a,c   Ijiri, Shigeho ^a,d   Nagae, Masaki ^a,e   Adachi, Shinji ^a   Yamauchi, Kohei ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Center of Marine Biotechnology   (United States)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glass eel; Gonads; Leptocephalus; Metamorphosis; Pituitary; Thyroid gland; TSH TH axis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012310876     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2906.2000.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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