Dynamics of reproductive hormones during downstream migration in females of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica

Zoological Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 180-188

  Sudo, Ryusuke ^a   Suetake, Hiroaki ^a,b   Suzuki, Yuzuru ^a   Utoh, Tomoko ^c   Tanaka, Satoru ^c   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IRAGO Institute Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

androgen; downstream migration; gonadotropins; otolith microchemistry; silver eel

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ECOSYSTEM; EEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RIVER;

ANGUILLA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPINS; RIVERS; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE;

ANGUILLA JAPONICA;

EID: 79952584571     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.28.180     Document Type: Article

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