caa a22 4500 445892617 CHVBK 20180317145621.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10750-010-0483-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10750-010-0483-5 Snell Terry School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332-0230, Atlanta, GA, USA aut A review of the molecular mechanisms of monogonont rotifer reproduction [Elektronische Daten] [Terry Snell] Most animals use proteins, peptides, steroids, eicosanoids, or amino acid derivatives as chemical signals, along with receptors, secondary messengers, transduction systems, and transcription factors to finely control reproduction. Many protostomes have complex endocrine systems with vertebrate-like sex steroid receptors, but some are unresponsive to vertebrate sex steroids. Others are responsive to estrogen and testosterone, but the effects are mediated through non-estrogen receptor pathways. In this article, I review the pheromones that rotifers use to synchronize reproduction and rotifer response to waterborne vertebrate steroid hormones. I also describe the impact on rotifer reproduction of endocrine disruptors that mimic androgens and their antagonists. A fraction of the brachionid transcriptome is surveyed for candidates involved in endocrine signaling systems and genes are identified that are putatively involved in steroidogenesis and oocyte maturation. We use the new technique of RNAi in rotifers to selectively knock down gene expression and identify the functional roles of genes involved in the regulation of reproduction. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Reproduction nationallicence Hormones nationallicence Pheromones nationallicence Steroids nationallicence Mixis nationallicence Receptors nationallicence Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 662/1(2011-03-01), 89-97 0018-8158 662:1<89 2011 662 10750 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0483-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0483-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Snell Terry School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332-0230, Atlanta, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 662/1(2011-03-01), 89-97 0018-8158 662:1<89 2011 662 10750 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer