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Published in final edited form as: Curr Top Dev Biol. 2013;103:127–165. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385979-2.00005-8

Table 5.2.

Selected studies that have examined hormone involvement or gene expression during teleost larval metamorphosis

Family Assessment Species and references
Carp (Cyprinidae) Hormone titer TH (zebrafish Danio rerio) (Chang et al., 2012)
TH (minnow Pimephales promelas) (Crane, Pickford, Hutchinson, & Brown, 2004)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Overall morphology: (Brown, 1989); Larval survival and growth: (Lam and Sharma, 1985)
Cichlids (Cichlidae) Hormone titer TH (Shiao, Wu, Hwang, Wu, & Hwang, 2008)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Overall morphology (Okimoto, Weber, & Grau, 1993)
Otolith development (Shiao et al., 2008)
Eels (Anguilloidei) Hormone titer TH (Aroua et al., 2005; Jegstrup & Rosenkilde, 2003; Yamano, Nomura, & Tanaka, 2007; Yamano, Tagawa, et al., 1991)
Cortisol (Yamano, Tagawa, et al., 1991)
GH, TSH, and sex hormones (Aroua et al., 2005)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Overall morphology and pigmentation (Jegstrup & Rosenkilde, 2003; Kitajima, Sato, & Kawanishi, 1967)
Flatfish (Order: Pleuronectiformes) Hormone titer TH (de Jesus, Hirano, & Inui, 1991; Klaren et al., 2008; Miwa, Tagawa, Inui, & Hirano, 1988)
GH and IGF (Hildahl, Sweeney, Galay-Burgos, Einarsdóttir, & Björnsson, 2007)
Cortisol (de Jesus et al., 1991)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Eye migration and overall morphology (Inui & Miwa, 1985; Inui et al., 1989; Schreiber & Specker, 1998; Solbakken, Norberg, Watanabe, & Pittman, 1999; Tagawa & Aritaki, 2005)
Gastric development (Miwa et al., 1992)
Pigmentation (Yoo, Takeuchi, Tagawa, & Seikai, 2000)
Muscle development (Yamano, Miwa, Obinata, & Inui, 1991)
Fin rays (de Jesus, Hirano, & Inui, 1993; de Jesus, Inui, & Hirano, 1990)
Erythrocyte development (Miwa & Inui, 1991)
Gene expression TRs (Galay-Burgos et al., 2008; Marchand, Duffraisse, Triqueneaux, Safi, & Laudet, 2004; Yamano & Miwa, 1998)
Deiodinases (Itoh, Watanabe, Wu, & Suzuki, 2010)
GH receptors (Hildahl, Power, Björnsson, & Einarsdóttir, 2008; Hildahl et al., 2007; Manchado, Infante, Asensio, Planas, & Cañavate, 2008; Manchado, Infante, Rebordinos, & Cañavate, 2009)
CK-M1 (Chen et al., 2010)
Elongation factor 1 alpha genes (Infante, Asensio, Cañavate, & Manchado, 2008)
Heat shock proteins (Manchado, Salas-Leiton, et al., 2008)
Trypsinogens (Manchado, Infante, Asensio, et al., 2008)
Keratin (Infante, Manchado, Asensio, & Cañavate, 2007)
Myogenic regulatory factors (Andersen et al., 2009)
Fatheads (Platycephalidae) Hormone titer TH (Taillebois et al., 2011)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Overall morphology (Taillebois et al., 2011)
Groupers Hormone titer TH (de Jesus et al., 1998)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Overall morphology (de Jesus et al., 1998; Trijundo, Yoseda, Hirokawa, Tagawa, & Tanaka, 2002)
Greenlings (Hexagrammidae) Hormone titer TH (Matsumoto & Tanaka, 1996)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Overall morphology and settling behavior (Matsumoto & Tanaka, 1996)
Salmonids (Salmonidae) Hormone titer TH (Boeuf, Le Bail, & Prunet, 1989; Dickhoff, Folmar, & Gorbman, 1978; Dickhoff, Folmar, Mighell, & Mahnken, 1982; Grau, Specker, Nishioka, & Bern, 1982; Lin et al., 1988; McCormick, Moriyama, & Björnsson, 2000; Prunet, Boeuf, Bolton, & Young, 1989; Quigley, Harvey, Hayden, Dowling, & O’Keane, 2006; Specker & Schreck, 1982; Virtanen & Soivio, 1985; Young, Bjornsson, Prunet, Lin, & Bern, 1989)
GH (Ágústsson et al., 2001; Boeuf et al., 1989; McCormick et al., 2000; McCormick, Shrimpton, Moriyama, & Björnsson, 2002; Prunet et al., 1989; Sweeting & McKeown, 1989; Young et al., 1989)
Cortisol (McCormick et al., 2000; McCormick, Shrimpton, Moriyama, & Björnsson, 2002; Specker & Schreck, 1982; Virtanen & Soivio, 1985; Young et al., 1989)
Prolactin (Prunet et al., 1989; Young et al., 1989)
IGF-I (Ágústsson et al., 2001; McCormick et al., 2000; McCormick, et al., 2002)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Growth and salinity tolerance (Saunders, McCormick, Henderson, Eales, & Johnston, 1985)
Salinity preference (Baggerman, 1960)
Adult hemoglobin expression (Sullivan et al., 1985)
Gene expression Microarray of multiple genes (Seear et al., 2010)
Aquaporins (Tipsmark et al., 2010)
Sea Breams (Sparidae) Hormone titer TH (Campinho, Galay-Burgos, Sweeney, & Power, 2010; Deane & Woo, 2003)
Cortisol (Deane & Woo, 2003)
Gene expression TRs and deiodinases (Campinho et al., 2010)
HSPs (Deane & Woo, 2003)
Tuna (Scombridae) Hormone titer TH (Kawakami, Nozaki, et al., 2008)
Morphological response to TH manipulation Eye pigmentation (Kawakami, Yokoi, Kumai, & Ohta, 2008)