11-Ketotestosterone stimulates putative sex pheromone production in the male peacock blenny, Salaria pavo (Risso 1810)1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 861-868

  Serrano, Rui M ^a,b   Lopes, Orlando ^b   Hubbard, Peter C ^a   Araújo, Jorge ^b   Canário, Adelino V M ^a   Barata, Eduardo N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anal gland; Androgens; Behavior; Blenniidae; Electro olfactogram; Implantation; Male reproductive tract; Olfaction; Pheromones; Reproduction; Steroid hormones; Teleost; Testes

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; MUCIN; SEX PHEROMONE; SIALOMUCIN; SILASTIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GERM LINE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMPLANT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; PERIANAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SALARIA PAVO; SMELLING; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; VAS DEFERENS;

ANAL SACS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; PERCIFORMES; SEX ATTRACTANTS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

BLENNIIDAE; BLENNIOIDEI; SALARIA PAVO; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 55549093399     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.069914     Document Type: Article

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