Melatonin effects on Fundulus heteroclitus reproduction

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 794-803

  Lombardo, Francesco ^a   Giorgini, Elisabetta ^a   Gioacchini, Giorgia ^a   Maradonna, Francesca ^a   Ferraris, Paolo ^a   Carnevali, Oliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

fecundity; FT IR microspectroscopy; GVBD; killifish; mtnr; oogenesis

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; YOLK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMINAL VESICLE; HATCHING; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EGG PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FISH PROTEINS; FUNDULIDAE; MALE; MELATONIN; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; REPRODUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

CYPRINODONTOIDEI; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS;

EID: 84863804430     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD11267     Document Type: Article

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