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Publications

Hatchery, nursery and grow-out techniques for the flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)

Vallainc D, Estevez A, Ramos SJ, Concu D, Carboni S, Duncan N, Lovatelli A (Itay Oz and Matan Golan - larval rearing chapter) (2026).
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper

Single-nuclei RNA sequencing reveals heterogeneity within developing GnRH3 neurons in zebrafish

Yalong Sun, Matan Golan, Yonathan Zohar, Xiaoxuan Fan, Nilli Zmora (2026).
Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Thyroid axis dynamics during metamorphic development of hatchery-reared grey mullet larvae

Itay Oz, Deodatta S. Gajbhiye, Genevieve L. Fernandes, Lior David, Matan Golan (2026).
Water Biol. Secur

Editorial: Reproductive biology of commercially important marine fish species

Aizen J, Golan M and Gao Y (2026).
Front. Mar. Sci.

Development of the Gonadotropin releasing hormone system

Anne Duittoz, Paolo E. Forni, Paolo Giacobini, Matan Golan, Patrice Mollard, Ariel L. Negrón, Sally Radovick, Susan Wray (2021)
J. Neuroendocrinol.

Non-uniform metamorphosis underlies different development trajectories in hatchery-reared flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)

Oz, Itay, Deodatta S. Gajbhiye, Yaara Yam Columbus-Shenkar, Lior David, and Matan Golan (2022)
Front. Mar. Sci.

The satiety hormone cholecystokinin gates reproduction in fish by controlling gonadotropin secretion.

Hollander-Cohen, L., Cohen, O., Shulman, M., Aiznkot, T., Fontanaud, P., Revah, O., Mollard, P. Golan, M., and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2024)
eLife

A transient neurohormonal circuit controls hatching in fish

Deodatta S. Gajbhiye, Genevieve L. Fernandes, Itay Oz, Yuni Nahmias, and Matan Golan  (2024)
Science

Novel tools for studying the fish growth hormone axis in vivo

Genevieve L Fernandes, Deodatta S Gajbhiye, Yaara Y Columbus-Shenkar, and Matan Golan (2025).
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab.

A half century of fish gonadotropin-releasing hormones: Breaking paradigms

Yonathan Zohar, Nilli Zmora, Vance L. Trudeau, José A. Muñoz-Cueto, Matan Golan (2021)
J. Neuroendocrinol.

Larval development staging table for hatchery-reared sunshine bass (Morone chrysops ♀ x Morone saxatilis ♂)

Deodatta S. Gajbhiye, Itay Oz, Yaara Y. Columbus-Shenkar, Matan Golan (2021)
Aquaculture

Effect of tank colour on growth, survival, stress level, digestive enzymatic activities and body composition of Snubnose pompano (Trachinotus blochii Lacépède) larvae

John Mapunda, Matern S. P. Mtolera, Saleh A. S. Yahya, Van Manh Ngo, Matan Golan, Van Minh Nguyen (2021)
Aquac. Res.

Synaptic communication mediates the assembly of a self-organizing circuit that
controls reproduction

Golan, M., Boulanger-Weill , J., Pinot, A., Fontanaud, P., Faucherre, A., Gajbhiye, D.S., Hollander-Cohen, L., Fiordelisio-Coll, T., Martin A. O. and Mollard. P. (2021)
Sci. Adv. 

Differential Regulation of Gonadotropins as Revealed by Transcriptomes of Distinct LH and FSH Cells of Fish Pituitary

Hollander-Cohen, L., Golan, M. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2021)
Int. J. Mol. Sci.

Ectopic Over Expression of kiss1 May Compensate for the Loss of kiss2

Etzion, T., Zmora, N., Zohar, Y., Levavi-Sivan, B., Golan, M. and Gothilf, Y. (2020)
Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.

Characterization of carp gonadotropins: Structure, annual profile, and carp and zebrafish pituitary topographic organization

Hollander-Cohen, L., Golan, M., Aizen, J., Shpilman, M. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2018)
Gen. Comp. Enocrinol. 

The gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (Lpxrfa) system's regulation of reproduction in the brain-pituitary axis of the zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Spicer OS, Zmora N, Wong TT, Golan M, Levavi-Sivan B, Gothilf Y, Zohar Y. (2017)
Biol Reprod. 

Gonadotropins in the Russian Sturgeon: Their Role in Steroid Secretion and the Effect of Hormonal Treatment on Their Secretion

Yom-Din S., Hollander-Cohen L., Aizen J., Boehm B., Shpilman M., Golan M., Hurvitz A., Degani G., Levavi-Sivan B. (2016)
PLoS One. 

Stellate Cell Networks in the Teleost Pituitary
 
Golan, M., Hollander-Cohen, L. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2016)
Sci. Rep. 

Architecture of GnRH-Gonadotrope-Vasculature Reveals a Dual Mode of Gonadotropin Regulation in Fish
 
Golan, M., Zelinger, E., Zohar, Y., and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2015)
Endocrinology. 
The article was chosen for the cover and for an editorial review in the November issue.

A novel model for development, organization and function of gonadotrophs in fish pituitary
 
Golan, M., Biran, J. and Levavi-Sivan, B (2014)
Front. in Endocrinol.

Long-term GnRH-induced gonadotropin secretion in a novel hypothalamo-pituitary slice culture from tilapia brain
 
Bloch, C.L., Kedar, N., Golan, M., Gutnick, M.J., Fleidervish, I.A. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2014)
Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 

The medio-basal hypothalamus as a dynamic and plastic reproduction-related kisspeptin-gnrh-pituitary center in fish
 
Zmora, N., Stubblefield, J., Golan, M., Servili, A., Levavi-Sivan, B. and Zohar, Y. (2014)
Endocrinology. 

Anatomical and functional gonadotrope networks in the teleost pituitary
 
Golan, M., Martin, A. O., Mollard, P. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2016)
Sci. Rep. 

Distribution of LPXRFa, a Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH) ortholog peptide and LPXRFa Receptor in the Brain and Pituitary of the Tilapia
 
Ogawa, S., Sivalingam, M., Biran, J., Golan, M., Anthonysamy, R., Levavi-Sivan, B. and Parhar, I. S. (2016)
J. Comp. Neurol. 

Direct Regulation of Gonadotropin Release by Neurokinin B in Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
 
Biran, J., Golan, M., Mizrahi, N., Ogawa, S., Parhar, I.S. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2014)
Endocrinology. 

Artificial masculinization in tilapia involves androgen receptor activation
 
Golan, M. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2014)
Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 

Social dominance in tilapia is associated with gonadotroph hyperplasia
 
Golan, M. and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2013)
Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 

Functional pituitary networks in vertebrates

Santiago-Andres, Y., Golan, M. and Fiordelisio-Coll, T. (2021)
Front. in Endocrinol. 

Tilapia Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH): Immunochemistry, Stimulation by Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone, and Effect of Biologically Active Recombinant FSH on Steroid Secretion
 
Aizen , J., Kasuto, H., Golan , M., Zakay, H., and Levavi-Sivan, B. (2007)
Biol. Reprod. 

Light colour affect the survival rate, growth performance, cortisol level, body composition, and digestive enzymes activities of different Snubnose pompano (Trachinotus blochii (Lacépède, 1801) larval stages

John Mapunda, Matern S. P. Mtolera, Saleh A. S. Yahya, Van Manh Ngo, Matan Golan (2021)
Aquac. Rep

TRH can stimulate the release of two POMC-derived pituitary hormones, ACTH and MSH, in medaka

Mana Yamakawa , Deodatta Shyam Gajbhiye , Matan Golan , Shinji Kanda (2026).
Endocrinology

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