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Estradiol-17β Treatment Induces Intersexual Gonadal Development in the Pufferfish,<i>Takifugu rubripes</i>
1 Sept 2009
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Estrogens are responsible for most characteristics of the female sex of a species, such as metabolic, behavioral, and morphological changes during reproduction. Artificial estradiol-17beta (E2) treatment Induces sex reversal in some fish. The Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes) has the most compact genome among vertebrates and great pottial for comparative genome analysis. In this paper, we describe the...
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