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Neural And Neuroendocrine Processing Of A Non-Photic Cue In An Opportunistically Breeding Songbird, Darcy K. Ernst, G. E. Bentley
Neural And Neuroendocrine Processing Of A Non-Photic Cue In An Opportunistically Breeding Songbird, Darcy K. Ernst, G. E. Bentley
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Recent studies of the onset of breeding in long-day photoperiodic breeders have focused on the roles of type 2 and 3 iodothyronine deiodinases (DIO2 and DIO3) in the conversion of thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3) and subsequent activation of the reproductive axis. It has been hypothesized that an increase in DIO2 and a reciprocal decrease in DIO3 causes the release of gonadotropinreleasing hormone (GnRH) from the hypothalamus, setting off a reproductive cascade, and that this DIO mechanism for GnRH release is conserved across vertebrate taxa. We sought to test whether social cues that are known to stimulate reproductive behaviors can …