Influences of sex, incubation temperature, and environmental quality on gonadal estrogen and androgen receptor messenger RNA expression in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 194-201

  Moore, Brandon C ^a   Milnes, Matthew R ^b   Kohno, Satomi ^a   Katsu, Yoshinao ^c   Iguchi, Taisen ^c   Guillette Jr , Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^c OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alligator; Environment; Ovary; Steroid hormone receptors; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450 17A1; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HYDROXY DELTA 5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE 3 BETA AND STEROID DELTAM ISOMERASE 1; ISOMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; STEROID HORMONE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NR5A1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; POLLUTANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; OVARY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS;

EID: 77950343521     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.077305     Document Type: Article

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