These results indicate that Thyroid-stimulating hormone may be involved in sex differentiation, and THs may play roles in the regulation of male development and sex reversal in rice field eel
2021
Identification and expression analysis of thyroid-stimulating hormone β subunit, and effects of T3 on gonadal differentiation-related gene expression in rice field eel, Monopterus albus
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Scholarcy highlights
- Rice field eel tshβ was cloned and characterized, which was highly conserved in teleost
- Monopterus albus, a protogynous hermaphroditic fish, which undergoes sex reversal from a functional female to a male, is an ideal model to investigate the regulation of sex differentiation
- The tissue distribution indicated that tshβ showed high expression in the pituitary, moderate expression in the brain region, gonad, intestine and liver, and low expression in other peripheral tissues
- The expression of tshβ had no significant difference in the pituitary
- These results indicate that Thyroid-stimulating hormone may be involved in sex differentiation, and THs may play roles in the regulation of male development and sex reversal in rice field eel
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