Molecular cloning of the three gonadotropin subunits and early expression of FSHβ during sex differentiation in the nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Fish Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 143-144

  Fan, H G ^a,b   Wang, D S ^b   Kobayashi, T ^b,c   Senthilkumaran, B ^b,c   Sudhakumari, C C ^b,c   Yoshikuni, M ^b,c   Nagahama, Y ^a,b,c  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Institute for Basic Biology   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadotropins; Nile tilapia; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; RNA;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH GENETICS; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HATCHING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TILAPIA;

OREOCHROMIS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 8844285129     PISSN: 09201742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:FISH.0000030502.48938.c0     Document Type: Article

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