Androgen receptor-beta mRNA levels in different tissues in breeding and post-breeding male and female sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hoffmann, Erik ^a   Walstad, Anders ^b   Karlsson, Johnny ^b   Olsson, Per Erik ^b   Borg, Bertil ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRESH WATER; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GONAD; HEART; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; KIDNEY; MALE; OVARY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SMEGMAMORPHA; TESTIS;

EID: 84858974000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-10-23     Document Type: Article

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