Light-induced hormone conversion of T4 to T3 regulates photoperiodic response of gonads in birds

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6963, 2003, Pages 178-181

  Yoshimura, Takashi ^a   Yasuo, Shinobu ^a   Watanabe, Miwa ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^b   Yamamura, Takashi ^a   Hirunagi, Kanjun ^a   Ebihara, Shizufumi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; GENES; HORMONES;

GENE ENCODING; PHOTOPERIODIC TIME MEASUREMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

HORMONE; HORMONE INHIBITOR; HORMONE PRECURSOR; IODOTHYRONINE; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE 2; IOPANOIC ACID; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIRD; HORMONE; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEIODINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIGHT; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; COTURNIX; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HYPOTHALAMUS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LIGHT; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344441889     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02117     Document Type: Article

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