Induction of female-to-male sex change in the honeycomb grouper (Epinephelus merra) by 11-ketotestosterone treatments

Zoological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-69

  Bhandari, Ramji Kumar ^a,c   Alam, Mohammad Ashraful ^a   Soyano, Kiyoshi ^b   Nakamura, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c National Institute for Basic Biology   (Japan)

Author keywords

11 ketotestostrone; Epinephelus merra; Honeycomb grouper; Protogynous hermaphrodite fish; Sex change

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; METABOLISM; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; PERCIFORMES; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EPINEPHELUS MERRA;

EID: 33646583853     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.23.65     Document Type: Article

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