Thyroid gland development in a neotenic goby (ice goby, Leucopsarion petersii) and a common goby (ukigori, Gymnogobius urotaenia) during early life stages

Zoological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 883-888

  Harada, Yasuko ^a   Harada, Shigeo ^b   Kinoshita, Izumi ^c   Tanaka, Masaru ^a   Tagawa, Masatomo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fisheries Division   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digestive tract; Ice goby (Leucopsarion petersii); Neoteny; Thyroid; Ukigori (Gymnogobius urotaenia)

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; JAPAN; MORPHOGENESIS; PERCIFORMES; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; JAPAN; MORPHOGENESIS; PERCIFORMES; PITUITARY GLAND; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMALIA; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; GYMNOGOBIUS; GYMNOGOBIUS UROTAENIA; LEUCOPSARION PETERSII; PERCIFORMES; POMATOSCHISTUS MICROPS;

EID: 0141819222     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.20.883     Document Type: Article

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