Seasonal profiles of brain and pituitary gonadotropin-releasing hormone and plasma luteinizing hormone in relation to sex change of protandrous black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 922-931

  Du, Jin Lien ^a   Lee, Van Horn ^b   Yueh, Wen Shiun ^c   Chang, Ching Fong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MARINE BIOLOGY AND AQUARIUM   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Luteinizing hormone; Neuroendocrinology; Pituitary; Seasonal reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; RNA; TRITIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX TRANSFORMATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ISOMERISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OVARY; PERCIFORMES; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTIS;

ACANTHOPAGRUS SCHLEGELII;

EID: 15544365181     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.033159     Document Type: Article

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