A newly established ELISA showing the effect of the androgenic gland on secondary-vitellogenic-specific protein in the hemolymph of the crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-45

  Sagi, Amir ^a   Khalaila, Isam ^a   Abdu, Uri ^a   Shoukrun, Rami ^a   Weil, Simy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIC SPECIFIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAYFISH; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GONAD; HEMOLYMPH; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNODIFFUSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

CHERAX QUADRICARINATUS;

EID: 0032991471     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7277     Document Type: Article

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