Zebrafish sexual behavior: Role of sex steroid hormones and prostaglandins

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pradhan, Ajay ^a   Olsson, Per Erik ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain dimorphism; Brain transcriptomic; Forebrain; Hindbrain; Midbrain; sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SEX HORMONE; WATER; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MATING; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; PROSTAGLANDINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84941884726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12993-015-0068-6     Document Type: Article

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