Esterase-like and fibronectin-like polypeptides share similar sex-cell-biased patterns in the gonad of hermaphroditic and gonochoric species of bivalve mollusks

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 322, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 475-489

  Paz, María ^a   Torrado, Mario ^a   Korochkin, Leonid I ^b   Mikhailov, Alexander T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bivalves (Mollusca); Gonad sexualization; Ovarian fibronectin; Testicular esterase

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; FIBRONECTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STROMA CELL; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TESTIS CELL;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESTERASES; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; PECTEN MAXIMUS;

EID: 27944491483     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-0032-0     Document Type: Article

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