Role of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the regulation of gonadal differentiation in the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-67

  Soverchia, L ^a   Carotti, M ^a   Andreu Vieyra, C ^b   Mosconi, G ^a   Cannella, N ^a   Habibi, H ^b   Polzonetti Magni, A M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologiche e Biochimiche Comparate   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gilthead seabream; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Switching gonad

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GONADORELIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOST; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, SWITCH; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADS; MALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEA BREAM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 33751580720     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20484     Document Type: Article

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