Does a 5500-km swim trial stimulate early sexual maturation in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.)?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1095-1103

  van Ginneken, V ^a   Dufour, S ^b   Sbaihi, M ^b   Balm, P ^c   Noorlander, K ^a   de Bakker, M ^a   Doornbos, J ^a   Palstra, A ^a   Antonissen, E ^a   Mayer, I ^d   van den Thillart, G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Estradiol; European eel; Gonad maturation; Gonadotropins; Spawning migration; Swim trial

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERMEDIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; VITELLOGENIN;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SWIMMING;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 34249730547     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.03.021     Document Type: Article

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