Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) fot vitellogenin in the Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880) /

Vitellogenin (VTG) is a large lipoglycophosphoprotein synthesized in the liver in response to the ovarian hormone estrogen, which is secreted during follicular maturation. VTG travels in the circulation to the ovary where it is processed into yolk proteins that are incorporated in the growing oocyte...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Vargas, Patricia, 1970-
Format:	Thesis eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2000.
Subjects:	Major zoology.
Online Access:	Link to OAKTrust copy