• Functional divergence of thyrotropin beta-subunit paralogs gives new insights into salmon smoltification metamorphosis 

      Fleming, Mitchell S.; Maugars, Gersende Marie Aimee; Lafont, Anne-Gaëlle; Rancon, Jocelyn; Fontaine, Romain; Nourizadeh-Lillabadi, Rasoul; Weltzien, Finn-Arne; Yebra-Pimente, Elena Santidrian; Dirks, Ron; McCormick, Stephen D.; Rousseau, Karine; Martin, Patrick; Dufour, Sylvie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Smoltification is a metamorphic event in salmon life history, which initiates downstream migration and pre-adapts juvenile salmon for seawater entry. While a number of reports concern thyroid hormones and smoltification, ...