Marine fish egg hydration is aquaporin-mediated

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5709, 2005, Pages 545-

  Fabra, Mercedes ^a,b   Raldúa, Demetrio ^a,b   Power, Deborah M ^c   Deen, Peter M T ^d   Cerdà, Joan ^a,b  

^a Inst de Recerca/Tecn Agroaliment   (Spain)

^b Reference Center in Aquaculture   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

FISH;

ARTICLE; FISH; HYDRATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; SEA BREAM; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISHES; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MICROVILLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OVARY; PERMEABILITY; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA BREAM; WATER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 19944432333     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106305     Document Type: Article

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6. We thank E. Lubzens, W. W. de Jong, and F. Piferrer for critical reading of the manuscript. Supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCyT) and European Commission grants (J.C.) and by a fellowship from the Catalan government (M.F.). This work is dedicated to Prof. R. A. Wallace, a pioneer in the investigation of oocyte hydration in fish, who inspired and encouraged this research.