xii, 456 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
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Fish, fishing and fisheries.; Marine biology (New York, N.Y.)
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Preface; Involvement of Neuropeptides in Gonadotropin Secretion in Teleost Fish; Neuroendocrine Control of Lunar-Synchronized Spawning Rhythm in Grass Puffer; Cytokines as Intraovarian Mediators of Luteinizing Hormone-Induced Ovulation in Fish; Teleosts as Model for Environmental Risk Assessment; Atherinopsid Fishes as Models for the Study of Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination: Physiology of Gonadal Sex Differentiation in Pejerrey Odontesthes Bonariensis; Developmental Aspects of Reproductive Hormones in Fish; Dimorphisms in the Brain & Involvement of Various Neurosubstances in Fish Reproduction: An Overview; Ovarian Catecholestrogens: Role in Final Oocyte Maturation; Understanding the Mechanism of Oocyte Maturation & Ovulation to Induce Spawning for Seed-Production in the Japanese Eel: Tough & Challenging Task; Transgenic Medaka Lines with a Visible Marker for Phenotypic Sex: Genetic Analyses of an XY Sex-Reversal; Hypothalamic Regulation of Pituitary Gonadotropins; Sexual Plasticity of Behaviour in Goldfish; Molecular Mechanisms of Gonadal Sex Differentiation & Sex-Reversal in Fish: Tilapia & Medaka; Physiological & Endocrinological Mechanism of Sex Change in the Grouper; Some Non-Classical Intragonadal Regulators of Fish Reproduction; Involvement of Brain-Pituitary-Gonadal Axis on the Regulation of Reproductive Cycle in Female Chub Mackerel; Teleosts are Classical Models for the Study of Oogenesis & Shift in Steroidogenesis; Function of Germ Cells in Sex Differentiation; Fish Gonadotropin Receptors; Regulation of Teleost Reproduction by Brain-Pituitary Axis; Perspectives on Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-Gonadotropins-Monoamines: Relevance to Gonadal Differentiation & Maturation in Teleosts; Zebrafish as a Vertebrate Model System for Developmental Biology & Biomedical Research; Sperm Maturation in Teleosts: Role of Androgens & Progestins in Our Present Understanding to Emerging New Concepts; Expression Profiling of Various Marker Genes Involved in Gonadal Differentiation of Teleosts: Molecular Understanding of Sexual Plasticity; Membrane Progestin Receptor, a Key Mediator of Final Oocyte Maturation in Fish; Index.