Sexually dimorphic expression of gonadotropin subunits in the pituitary of protogynous honeycomb grouper (Epinephelus merra): Evidence that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) induces gonadal sex change

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1030-1036

  Kobayashi, Yasuhisa ^a   Alam, Mohammad Ashraful ^a   Horiguchi, Ryo ^a   Shimizu, Akio ^b   Nakamura, Masaru ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen; Estrogen; Follicle stimulating hormone; Gonadotropin; Grouper; Luteinizing hormone; Ovary; Pituitary hormones; Sex change; Teleost

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERMAPHRODITISM; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TELEOST; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; UPREGULATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BASS; CATTLE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTIS;

BOVINAE; EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS MERRA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 77953841131     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.080986     Document Type: Article

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