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Regulatory mechanisms for the development of the migratory phenotype: roles for photoperiod and the gonad.
Hormones and behavior - 1 Jun 2014
Ramenofsky Marilyn, Németh Zoltán
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This article is part of a Special Issue "Energy Balance". Male white-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii, were studied to investigate roles of natural day length and the testes in regulating development and expression of the vernal migration phenotype. Previous work suggested that a pulse of androgen during winter months followed by the vernal increase in photoperiod promotes fueling (fat...
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