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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-759
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: Towards all female Penaeus monodon populations using androgenic gland manipulations

Australian prawn aquaculture production is based predominantly on P. monodon farming, with larger sized prawns attract premium prices in the local market. Females grow significantly larger than males, and hence, a technology to develop all-female monosex populations would offer competitive advantage...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-785
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: SCRC Honours Scholarship: Ying Ying Lee "Understanding the role of Kiss1/Kiss1r system in controlling the puberty in Yellowtail kingfish and Southern Bluefin Tuna"

The cDNA encoding for G-protein coupled receptor 54 (GPR54) was cloned from the brains of Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) and Yellowtail Kingfish (YTK). The SBT GPR54 has an open reading frame of 1134bp encoding a predicted 378 amino acid peptide, containing seven putative transmembrane domains, a 138...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)