Gonad Sex Differentiation of Anguilla anguilla by Sex Steroids
Abstract Anguilla anguilla elvers, reared in warm fresh water, were treated with 17 a‐methyltestosterone (MT) and with 17 α‐ethynilestradiol (EE), administered with a commercial diet. A very low proportion of untreated elvers developed as females. A very high proportion of the EE treated elvers deve...
| Published in: | Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1990
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.19900750610 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Firoh.19900750610 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/iroh.19900750610 |
| Summary: | Abstract Anguilla anguilla elvers, reared in warm fresh water, were treated with 17 a‐methyltestosterone (MT) and with 17 α‐ethynilestradiol (EE), administered with a commercial diet. A very low proportion of untreated elvers developed as females. A very high proportion of the EE treated elvers developed as females and the gonads differentiated as ovaries at an earlier growth stage. Among the MT treated elvers, in a very low proportion of eels the gonads developed as ovaries, most into a undifferentiated testis‐like gonad and some with abnormal histological features. |
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