LH-β and FSH-β mRNA expression in nesting and post-breeding three-spined stickleback, Gasterosterus aculeatus, and effects of castration on expression of LH-β, and spiggin mRNA

Fish Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 311-317

  Hellqvist, Anna ^a   Schmitz, Monika ^b   Lindberg, Christina ^c   Olsson, Per Erik ^c,d   Borg, Bertil ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

11 ketotestosterone; Fish; FSH; Gonadotropin; LH; Teleost

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SEX HORMONE; SPIGGIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0038060579     PISSN: 09201742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023210407163     Document Type: Article

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