Brain Aromatase in Fishes: Historical Perspective and Comparative Approaches

Callard, Gloria V.; Greytak, Sarah R.; Novillo Villajos, Apolonia; Cotter, Kellie A.; Meyer, Rebecca K.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841196.001.0001

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Brain Aromatase in Fishes: Historical Perspective and Comparative Approaches

Callard, Gloria V.; Greytak, Sarah R.; Novillo Villajos, Apolonia; Cotter, Kellie A.; Meyer, Rebecca K.

Use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11268/900

Date: 2012

UNESCO Subject: Hidrobiología

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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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