Changes in androgen-producing cell size and circulating 11-ketotestosterone level during female-male sex change of honeycomb grouper Epinephelus merra

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 206-214

  Alam, Mohammad Ashraful ^a   Bhandari, Ramji Kumar ^b   Kobayashi, Yasuhisa ^a,d   Nakamura, Shigeo ^a   Soyano, Kiyoshi ^c   Nakamura, Masaru ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

11 KT; Honeycomb grouper; P45011 ; P450scc; Sex change

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; COLOR; FEMALE; FISH; GERM CELL; HONEYCOMB GROUPER; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; THECA CELL; TUNICA ALBUGINEA;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BASS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; EPINEPHELUS MERRA;

EID: 30144438164     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20393     Document Type: Article

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