Transcriptomic analyses of limbic structures across photoperiodic phenotypes in the Siberian hamster and Japanese quail brains.

Abstract excerpt

Seasonal morphological brain plasticity plays a key role in driving adaptive behavioural responses. Structural changes in the brain including the hippocampus and amygdala (nucleus taeniae in birds), across photoperiods are thought to underlie seasonal shifts in emotional state. For humans, this includes manifestations of short photoperiod seasonal affective disorder (SAD). While morphological brain changes are...

Topics

• Animals
• Photoperiod
• Phodopus
• Coturnix
• Cricetinae
• Transcriptome
• Male