RECURRENT BREEDING SEASONS IN PINEALECTOMIZED OR OPTIC-NERVE-SECTIONED FERRETS
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Journal of Endocrinology
- Vol. 78 (3) , 389-397
- https://doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.0780389
Abstract
The breeding seasons of two groups of pinealectomized ferrets and one group of blind ferrets, with appropriate controls, were observed for up to 5 years after the operations. All animals showed recurrent breeding seasons. Both pinealectomized and blind animals became increasingly asynchronous after the first season, but showed no evidence of a free-running, endogenous circannual periodicity nor of synchronization to light or other environmental cues.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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