Cortisol-induced masculinization: Does thermal stress affect gonadal fate in pejerrey, a teleost fish with temperature-dependent sex determination?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Hattori, Ricardo S ^a   Fernandino, Juan I ^b   Kishil, Ai ^a   Kimura, Hiroyuki ^a   Kinno, Tomomi ^a   Oura, Miho ^a   Somoza, Gustavo M ^b   Yokota, Masashi ^a   Strüssmann, Carlos A ^a   Watanabe, Seiichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FEMININITY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HERMAPHRODITISM; INCIDENCE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MASCULINITY; NONHUMAN; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE STRESS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; NICK END LABELING;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; PISCES; REPTILIA; TELEOSTEI;

ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; FISHES; HYDROCORTISONE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LARVA; MALE; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 68449085024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006548     Document Type: Article

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