Duality of gonadotropin in a primitive teleost, Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 121-131

  Yoshiura, Yasutoshi ^a   Suetake, Hiroaki ^a   Aida, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CDNA cloning; Duality of gonadotropin; Fish reproduction; Gonadotropin (GTH); Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica); subunit

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GONADOTROPIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EEL; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0032915022     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7242     Document Type: Article

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