Divergence in sex steroid hormone signaling between sympatric species of Japanese threespine stickleback

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kitano, Jun ^a,b,c,d   Kawagishi, Yui ^d,e   Mori, Seiichi ^f   Peichel, Catherine L ^g   Makino, Takashi ^d   Kawata, Masakado ^d   Kusakabe, Makoto ^h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f GIFU KEIZAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g USA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FISH; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE BETA GENE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE; HYPOPHYSIS; JAPAN SEA; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; SYMPATRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEROIDS;

EID: 84555203270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029253     Document Type: Article

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