Temperature effects on sex determination and ontogenetic gene expression of the aromatases cyp19a and cyp19b, and the estrogen receptors esr1 and esr2 in Atlantic Halibut (Hippoglossus Hippoglossus)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1481-1490

  Van Nes, Solveig ^a,b   Andersen, Øivind ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NOFIMA   (Norway)

Author keywords

Flounder; Gene regulation; Gonadogenesis; Sex plasticity; Thermolabile

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CYP19A GENE; CYP19B GENE; ESR1 GENE; ESR2 GENE; FISH; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HATCHING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INCIDENCE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GONADS; MALE; SEX; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

HIPPOGLOSSUS HIPPOGLOSSUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750389911     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20514     Document Type: Article

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