Flatfish as Model Research Animals: Metamorphosis and Sex Determination

Practical Flatfish Culture and Stock Enhancement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 286-302

  Borski, Russell J ^a   Luckenbach, John Adam ^b   Godwin, John ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine regulation of metamorphosis; Insulin like growth factor (IGF); Morphological and behavioral changes during metamorphosis; Other factors influencing sex determination; Physiological mediation of sex determination responses; Prolactin and the growth hormone insulin like growth factor axis; Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954674155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813810997.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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