Seasonality of serum levels of vitellogenin in male Japanese whiting, Sillago japonica, reared under natural temperature and photoperiod

Fisheries Science

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 555-562

  Hotta, Komei ^a   Watanabe, Takayuki ^a   Kishida, Chiho ^a   Nakamura, Yukio ^a   Ohkubo, Nobuyuki ^b   Matsubara, Takahiro ^b   Adachi, Shinji ^c   Yamauchi, Kohei ^c  

^a Teikokushoin Bldg 5F   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomarker; ELISA; Endocrine disruptor; Environmental estrogen; Japanese whiting; Male; Seasonality; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

JAPONICA; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; SILLAGO; SILLAGO JAPONICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038489078     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2906.2003.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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