The saccus vasculosus of fish is a sensor of seasonal changes in day length

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nakane, Yusuke ^a   Ikegami, Keisuke ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^b,c   Ono, Hiroko ^a   Takeda, Korenori ^b,c,d   Takahashi, Daisuke ^b   Uesaka, Maiko ^b   Kimijima, Meita ^b   Hashimoto, Ramu ^b   Arai, Natsumi ^b   Suga, Takuya ^b   Kosuge, Katsuya ^b   Abe, Tomotaka ^b,c   Maeda, Ryosuke ^a   Senga, Takumi ^a   Amiya, Noriko ^e   Azuma, Teruo ^f   Amano, Masafumi ^e   Abe, Hideki ^a   Yamamoto, Naoyuki ^a   Yoshimura, Takashi ^a,g   more..

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Tochigi Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station   (Japan)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

CELL ORGANELLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; LIGHT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; REPRODUCTION; SACCUS VASCULOSUS; SALMON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; RHODOPSIN; SEASONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

EID: 84880124307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3108     Document Type: Article

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