Anatomical, hormonal and histological descriptions of captive Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) with intersex gonads

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 359-367

  Jackson, Karen ^a,b,c   Hurvitz, Avshalom ^a,b   Din, Svetlana Yom ^a,b   Goldberg, Doron ^a,b   Pearlson, Oren ^a,b,c   Degani, Gad ^a,b,c   Levavi Sivan, Berta ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Estradiol; FSH; Gene expression; Gonadotropins; Intersex; LH; Sturgeon

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; STEROID;

ACIPENSER GUELDENSTAEDTII; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITISM; HYBRID; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TESTIS; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 33747864541     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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