Suppression of P450 aromatase gene expression in sex-reversed males produced by rearing genetically female larvae at a high water temperature during a period of sex differentiation in the Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)

Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-176

  Kitano, T ^a,b   Takamune, K ^b   Kobayashi, T ^c   Nagahama, Y ^c   Abe, S I ^b  

^a Kumamoto Prefectural Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GONAD; LARVA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEAT; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032693873     PISSN: 09525041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/jme.0.0230167     Document Type: Article

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