| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,808,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,160,000、Indirect Cost: ¥648,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,313,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,010,000、Indirect Cost: ¥303,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,495,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,150,000、Indirect Cost: ¥345,000)
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| Research Abstract |
We examined the function of several genes that show sexually dimorphic expression patterns in the medaka brain in order to understand the mechanisms in the teleost brain for generating sex differences. Medaka were treated with the antagonists and specific antibodies for the sexually dimorphic genes, as well as their translational products, and subjected to behavioral analyses. Preliminary data suggest that some of these genes may be involved in sex-specific behavioral patterns, although further evidence is still needed. We also began to examine the localization of the ranscripts and translational products in the brain for some of the sexually dimorphic genes.
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