Identification of the photoperiodic signaling pathway regulating seasonal reproduction using the functional genomics approach

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 163, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 2-6

  Ono, Hiroko ^a   Nakao, Nobuhiro ^a   Yoshimura, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ependymal cell; Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica); Mediobasal hypothalamus; Pars tuberalis; Photoperiodism; Thyrotropin; Type 2 and 3 iodothyronine deiodinases

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUAIL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 67649739565     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.11.017     Document Type: Article

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