Cloning and sequencing of the FSH-β and LH β-subunit in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, and effects of photoperiod and temperature on LH-β and FSH-β mRNA expression

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-174

  Hellqvist, Anna ^a   Bornestaf, Cecilia ^a   Borg, Bertil ^a   Schmitz, Monika ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COLOR; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0346992144     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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