Amphioxus, a primitive chordate, is on steroids: Evidence for sex steroids and steroidogenic enzymes

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3551-3553

  Baker, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; STEROID ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES;

EID: 34547134700     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0547     Document Type: Short Survey

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