Isolation, characterization and expression analyses of FSH receptor in protogynous grouper

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 364-371

  Alam, Mohammad Ashraful ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuhisa ^a   Hirai, Toshiaki ^b   Nakamura, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; FSHR; Grouper; Sex change

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS MERRA;

EID: 77951978352     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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