Current status of genetic and endocrine factors in the sex change of protandrous black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli (Teleostean)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 206-214

  Wu, Guan Chung ^a   Du, Jin Lien ^a   Lee, Yan Horn ^b   Lee, Mong Fong ^a   Chang, Ching Fong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Black porgy; Fish; Hormone; Sex change; Sex development

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMRT 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SF 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BISEXUALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONAD; HEREDITY; HERMAPHRODITISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPAWNING; TELEOST; TESTIS;

ACANTHOPAGRUS SCHLEGELII;

EID: 22144468035     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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