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R/BT-01
Development of immunoassays for striped bass gonadotropins
Principal Investigator:
Yonathan ZoharStart/End Year:
1994 - 1997Institution:
Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology InstituteCo-Principal Investigator:
Rosemary Jagus, Center for Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology InstituteTopic(s):
- Striped Bass
Description:
To develop radioimmunoassays (RIAS) for the measurement of the striped and white bass major reproductive hormones, the gonadotropins (GtH-I&II). To enable monitoring GtH levels in striped and white bass broodfish exposed to environmental or hormonal manipulations. To use a novel recombinant DNA approach for expressing immunoactive GtHs and for developing RIAs for fish gonadotropins.
Funding Start Year
1994
Funding End Year
1997
Related Publications:
Wong, TT; Zohar, Y. 2004. Novel expression of gonadotropin subunit genes in oocytes of the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). Endocrinology145(11):5210 -5220. doi:10.1210/en.2004-0558. UM-SG-RS-2004-13.
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Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
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