Sex-related changes in estrogen receptors and aromatase gene expression and enzymatic activity during early development and sex differentiation in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-101

  Blázquez, Mercedes ^a   González, Alicia ^a   Papadaki, Maria ^b   Mylonas, Constantinos ^b   Piferrer, Francesc ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aromatase; cyp19; Dicentrarchus labrax; Estrogen receptors; Estrogens; Sea bass; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; AROMATASE A; AROMATASE B; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR 1; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR 2; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; TRITIUM OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUROPEAN SEA BASS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; MATURATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TESTIS;

EID: 47749115671     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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