Estradiol-17β induced a reversible sex change in the fingerlings of protandrous black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli bleeker: The possible roles of luteinizing hormone in sex change

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1270-1278

  Lee, Yan Horn ^a   Wu, Guan Chung ^b   Du, Jin Lien ^b   Chang, Ching Fong ^b  

^a NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MARINE BIOLOGY AND AQUARIUM   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Black porgy; Estradiol; Fish; Gametogenesis; Luteinizing hormone; Seasonal reproduction; Sex change; Steroid hormone receptors; Steroid receptors; Testis development

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; FISH; FOREBRAIN; GAMETOGENESIS; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; HORMONE ACTION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPAWNING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACANTHOPAGRUS; ACANTHOPAGRUS SCHLEGELII; ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GONADS; LARVA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PERCIFORMES; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 4544233725     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.030221     Document Type: Article

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