Tissue and sexually dimorphic expression of ovarian and brain aromatase mRNA in the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes): Implications for their preferential roles in ovarian and neural differentiation and development

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-137

  Patil, Jawahar G ^a,b   Gunasekera, Rasanthi M ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gonad; qPCR; Reproduction; Sex differentiation; Steroidogenic pathway

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BETA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP19A GENE; CYP19B GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; HATCHING; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; ORYZIAS; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 47749102467     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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