Neuroendocrine regulation of puberty in fish: Insights from the grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) model

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 355-361

  Nocillado, Josephine N ^a   Elizur, Abigail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain pituitary gonadal axis; drd2; GnRH; GPR54

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FISH; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUGIL CEPHALUS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUBERTY; REVIEW; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARY; PITUITARY GLAND; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

MUGIL CEPHALUS; MUGILIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 37849022714     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20744     Document Type: Review

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