Induction of female-to-male sex change in adult zebrafish by aromatase inhibitor treatment

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Takatsu, Kanae ^a   Miyaoku, Kaori ^a   Roy, Shimi Rani ^a   Murono, Yuki ^a   Sago, Tomohiro ^a   Itagaki, Hideyuki ^a   Nakamura, Masaru ^b   Tokumoto, Toshinobu ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Churashima Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; MALE; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84889029761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03400     Document Type: Article

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