Two cytochrome P450 aromatase genes in the hermaphrodite ricefield eel Monopterus albus: mRNA expression during ovarian development and sex change

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 317-331

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Zhang, Weimin ^a   Yang, Huiyi ^a   Zhou, Wenliang ^a   Hu, Chaoqun ^b   Zhang, Lihong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EEL; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELEOST; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VITELLOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; EELS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTIS;

EID: 56849122976     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-08-0303     Document Type: Article

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