Transcriptome analysis of the gilthead sea bream (sparus auratus) pituitary gla...

• Author(s): Louro, B. E. P. ; Passos, A. L. S. ; Power, Deborah
• Date: 2005
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/5444
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Bridge-map; Expressed sequence tags; Novel pituitary transcripts; Pituitary cDNA library; Sparus auratus; Type I markers
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The pituitary gland of vertebrates produces a number of hormones, growth hormone, prolactin, somatolactin, gonadotrophin, thyroid stimulating hormone, proopiomelanocorticotrophin, which regulate a number of important production traits.