MATÍAS PANDOLFI*, MAXIMILIANO M. CÁNEPA, FERNANDO J. MEIJIDE, FELIPE ALONSO, GRACIELA REY VÁZQUEZ, M. CRISTINA MAGGESE, PAULA G. VISSIO
BIOCELL, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 1-18, 2009, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2009.33.001
Abstract Many characteristics of the South American teleost fish Cichlasoma dimerus (body size, easy breeding, undemanding maintenance) make it amenable to laboratory studies. In the last years, many of the fundamental aspects of its reproductive and developmental biology have been addressed in our laboratory. Rather recently, the immunohistochemical localization of pituitary hormones involved in reproduction and in background color adaptation has been described in both adult and developing individuals, and the role of FSH in ovarian differentiation has been established. These findings have been correlated with mapping of some of their brain-derived controlling hormones. The latter include More >