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Yonathan Zohar is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions to genetics, physiology, reproductive medicine, aquatic science, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
  • Genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Animal genetics and reproduction
  • Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Aquaculture nutrition and growth
  • Reproductive system and pregnancy

Frequent publication venues for Yonathan Zohar include:

  • General and Comparative Endocrinology
  • Endocrinology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yonathan Zohar include:

  • "Fish reproductive biology - Reflecting on five decades of fundamental and translational research", 2020, General and Comparative Endocrinology
  • "A half century of fish gonadotropin-releasing hormones: Breaking paradigms", 2021, Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Other notable studies related to their field of research include:

  • "The gonadotropin-releasing hormones: Lessons from fish", 2020, General and Comparative Endocrinology
  • "Reproductive sterility in aquaculture: A review of induction methods and an emerging approach with application to Pacific Northwest finfish species", 2022, Reviews in Aquaculture
  • "Gnrh2 maintains reproduction in fasting zebrafish through dynamic neuronal projection changes and regulation of gonadotropin synthesis, oogenesis, and reproductive behaviors", 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators with whom Yonathan Zohar has worked include:

  • Nilli Zmora
  • Ten-Tsao Wong
  • Berta Levavi-Sivan
  • Sakura Tanaka
  • José Antonio Muñoz-Cueto

Best Publications

  • Neuroendocrinology of reproduction in teleost fish.

    Yonathan Zohar;José Antonio Muñoz-Cueto;Abigail Elizur;Olivier Kah

  • Endocrine manipulations of spawning in cultured fish: from hormones to genes

    Yonathan Zohar;Constantinos C Mylonas

  • 7 The Gonadal Steroids

    A. Fostier;B. Jalabert;R. Billard;B. Breton

  • Use of GnRHa-delivery systems for the control of reproduction in fish

    Constantinos C. Mylonas;Yonathan Zohar

  • Three forms of gonadotropin-releasing hormone characterized from brains of one species.

    J. F. F. Powell;Y. Zohar;A. Elizur;M. Park

  • VISUALIZING NORMAL AND DEFECTIVE BONE DEVELOPMENT IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS USING THE FLUORESCENT CHROMOPHORE CALCEIN

    Shao Jun Du;Victor Frenkel;Greg Kindschi;Yonathan Zohar

  • Analysis of myostatin gene structure, expression and function in zebrafish

    Cheng Xu;Gang Wu;Yonathan Zohar;Shao-Jun Du

  • Environmentally sustainable land-based marine aquaculture

    Yossi Tal;Harold J. Schreier;Harold J. Schreier;Kevin R. Sowers;John D. Stubblefield

  • Nannochloropsis Genomes Reveal Evolution of Microalgal Oleaginous Traits

    Dongmei Wang;Kang Ning;Jing Li;Jianqiang Hu

  • Localization and expression of aromatase mRNA in adult zebrafish.

    Rie Goto-Kazeto;Katherine E. Kight;Yonathan Zohar;Allen R. Place

  • Molecular characterization of the GnRH system in zebrafish (Danio rerio): cloning of chicken GnRH-II, adult brain expression patterns and pituitary content of salmon GnRH and chicken GnRH-II.

    Colin Steven;Nadine Lehnen;Katherine Kight;Shigeho Ijiri

  • Dopamine Inhibits Luteinizing Hormone Synthesis and Release in the Juvenile European Eel: A Neuroendocrine Lock for the Onset of Puberty

    Bernadette Vidal;Catherine Pasqualini;Nadine Le Belle;M. Claire H. Holland

  • The 5'-flanking regions of CYP19A1 and CYP19A2 in zebrafish.

    Yukinori Kazeto;Shigeho Ijiri;Allen R. Place;Yonathan Zohar

  • Large-scale juvenile production of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

    Odi Zmora;Andrea Findiesen;John Stubblefield;Victor Frenkel

  • Three forms of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a perciform fish (Sparus aurata): complementary deoxyribonucleic acid characterization and brain localization.

    Yoav Gothilf;Jose A. Muñoz-Cueto;Cathy A. Sagrillo;Michael Selmanoff

  • Long photoperiod delayed spawning and increased somatic growth in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

    George Wm Kissil;Ingrid Lupatsch;Abigail Elizur;Yonathan Zohar

  • Gonadotropin releasing hormone in spawning induction in Teleosts: basic and applied considerations

    Y. Zohar

  • Pituitary levels of three forms of GnRH in the male European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, L.) during sex differentiation and first spawning season.

    L. Rodríguez;M. Carrillo;L.A. Sorbera;M.A. Soubrier

  • Lactobacillus rhamnosus accelerates zebrafish backbone calcification and gonadal differentiation through effects on the GnRH and IGF systems.

    Matteo A. Avella;Allen Place;Shao-Jun Du;Ernest Williams

  • Immunohistochemical localization of three different prepro-GnRHs in the brain and pituitary of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) using antibodies to the corresponding GnRH-associated peptides

    David González-Martínez;Nilli Zmora;Evaristo L. Mañanós;Dany Saligaut

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantinos C. Mylonas
Constantinos C. Mylonas University of Maryland, College Park
Silvia Zanuy
Silvia Zanuy Spanish National Research Council
Abigail Elizur
Abigail Elizur University of the Sunshine Coast
Anson H. Hines
Anson H. Hines Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Allen R. Place
Allen R. Place University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Olivier Kah
Olivier Kah University of Rennes
Philippe Vernier
Philippe Vernier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Carmen Sarasquete
Carmen Sarasquete Spanish National Research Council
Sigurd O. Stefansson
Sigurd O. Stefansson University of Bergen
Russell T. Hill
Russell T. Hill University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences

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