Hormonal Regulation of Vasa-Like Messenger RNA Expression in the Ovary of the Marine Teleost Sparus aurata

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 737-743

  Cardinali, M ^a   Gioacchini, G ^a   Candiani, S ^b   Pestarino, M ^b   Yoshizaki, G ^c   Carnevali, Oliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gametogenesis; Gene regulation; Mechanisms of hormone action; Oocyte development; Ovary

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELEOST; VASA GENE; VERTEBRATE; VITELLOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; RNA HELICASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEA BREAM;

ANIMALIA; ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; EUKARYOTA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; INVERTEBRATA; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1242298771     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.021428     Document Type: Article

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