Gonadotropin α-subunit glycoprotein from channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and its expression during hormoneinduced ovulation

Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-227

  Liu, Zhanjiang ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Argue, Brad J ^a   Dunham, Rex A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARP; CATFISH; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; ICTALURIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; OVULATION; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINUS CARPIO; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0030770107     PISSN: 10536426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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