Intra-pituitary relationship of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone during pubertal development in Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 194, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-23

  Berkovich, Nadia ^a,b   Corriero, Aldo ^c   Santamaria, Nicoletta ^c   Mylonas, Constantinos C ^d   Vassallo Aguis, Robert ^e   de la Gándara, Fernando ^f   Meiri Ashkenazi, Iris ^a   Zlatnikov, Vered ^a   Gordin, Hillel ^a   Bridges, Christopher R ^g   Rosenfeld, Hanna ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^e Malta Center for Fisheries Sciences   (Malta)

^f Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^g HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic bluefin tuna; Dot blot immunoassay; Fish reproduction; Gonadotropins; Puberty; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FISHERY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RNA ISOLATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPERMATOZOON; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THUNNUS THYNNUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUNA;

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA; DOT-BLOT-IMMUNOASSAY; FISH REPRODUCTION; GONADOTROPINS; PUBERTY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; TUNA;

EID: 84884387351     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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