Expression of three gonadotropin subunits in Southern catfish gonad and their possible roles during early gonadal development

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-48

  Wu, Fengrui ^a   Zhang, Xiuyue ^a   Zhang, Weili ^a   Huang, Baofeng ^a   Liu, Zhihao ^a   Hu, Chongjiang ^a   Wang, Deshou ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Expression; Gonad; Gonadotropin; Southern catfish

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATFISH; DNA ISOLATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

SILURUS MERIDIONALIS;

EID: 64049087393     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.12.013     Document Type: Article

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