Male silver eels mature by swimming

BMC Physiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Palstra, Arjan P ^a   Schnabel, Denhi ^b   Nieveen, Maaike C ^a   Spaink, Herman P ^b   Van Den Thillart, Guido E E J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONAZON; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEA WATER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG MECHANISM; EEL; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWIMMING; ANIMAL; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWIMMING;

EID: 47649106404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6793-8-14     Document Type: Article

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