Further experiments on the effects of sex steroids on the gonad sex differentiation of European eel.
Yellow eels 15-18 cm and 22.25 cm total length. reared in fresh water at 22.24 °C and on commercial eel food, were treated with 17-alfa-methyltestosterone (MT) and with 17-alfa-ethynilestradiol (EE) given with the diet. A very high proportion of the untreated and the MT treated eels developed as mal...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Akad.-Verl, Wiley-VCH.
1992
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11392/461836 |
| Summary: | Yellow eels 15-18 cm and 22.25 cm total length. reared in fresh water at 22.24 °C and on commercial eel food, were treated with 17-alfa-methyltestosterone (MT) and with 17-alfa-ethynilestradiol (EE) given with the diet. A very high proportion of the untreated and the MT treated eels developed as males. A significantly high proportion of the EE treated eels with e high dose (1 mg/kg of food) differentiated as females. In 22.25 cm eels the effect was weaker. |
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