Aromatase immunoreactivity and the role of enzymes in steroid pathways for inducing sex change in the hermaphrodite gobiid fish Trimma okinawae

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-59

  Sunobe, Tomoki ^a   Nakamura, Masaru ^b   Kobayashi, Yasuhisa ^b   Kobayashi, Tohru ^c   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^d  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estradiol 17 ; Gobiidae; Hermaphroditism; Immunohistochemistry; Sex change; Steroid pathways; Trimma okinawae

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ENZYME; STEROID; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FISH; GONAD; GRANULOSA CELL; HERMAPHRODITISM; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPERM; TESTIS; TRIMMA OKINAWAE;

GOBIIDAE; TRIMMA OKINAWAE;

EID: 20444404915     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.03.012     Document Type: Article

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