Brain Aromatase in Fishes: Historical Perspective and Comparative Approaches

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11268/900
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841196.001.0001

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2012

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Callard, Gloria V.
Greytak, Sarah R.
Cotter, Kellie A.
Meyer, Rebecca K.

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Balthazart, Jacques
Ball, Gregory

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The ability to convert androgens to estrogens is an ancient and highly conserved characteristic of the vertebrate brain but is lacking in amphioxus and all other invertebrates, indicating that a functional form of the enzyme first evolved in the brain of

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Hidrobiología

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Callard, G. V., Greytak, S. R., Novillo, A., Cotter, K. A., & Meyer, R. K. (2012). Brain aromatase in fishes: historical perspective and comparative approaches. In J. Balthazart & G. Ball (Eds.), Brain aromatase, estrogens, and behavior. Oxford Scholarship Online.

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