Expression profiles of sex differentiation-related genes during ontogenesis in the european sea bass acclimated to two different temperatures

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 312, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 686-700

  Blázquez, Mercedes ^a   Navarro Martín, Laia ^a   Piferrer, Francesc ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; REPTILIA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 70350338753     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21286     Document Type: Article

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