ArticleFunctional ecology2015
Food availability, energetic constraints and reproductive development in a wild seasonally breeding songbird.
Article in Functional ecology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Ecology of timekeeping: feeding times effect clock-controlled behavior, metabolism and reproduction in diurnal vertebrates.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025Review
- Experimental biology can inform our understanding of food insecurity.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Urban environment alter the timing of progression of testicular recrudescence in tree sparrow (Passer montanus).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- The Role of GnIH in Biological Rhythms and Social Behaviors.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Review
- Disruption of energy homeostasis by food restriction or high ambient temperature exposure affects gonadal function in male house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus).Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2020Article
- Associations Between Environmental Resources and the "Wanting" and "Liking" of Male Song in Female Songbirds.Integrative and comparative biology · 2017Review
- The ecological and physiological bases of variation in the phenology of gonad growth in an urban and desert songbird.General and comparative endocrinology · 2016Article
- Negative energy balance in a male songbird, the Abert's towhee, constrains the testicular endocrine response to luteinizing hormone stimulation.The Journal of experimental biology · 2015Article
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Abstract
In many organisms, food availability is a proximate cue that synchronizes seasonal development of the reproductive system with optimal environmental conditions. Growth of the gonads and secondary sexual characteristics is orchestrated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. However, our understanding of the physiological mechanisms by which food availability modulates activity of the HPG axis is limited.It is thought that many factors, including energetic status, modulate seasonal reproductive activation. We tested the hypothesis that food availability modulates the activity of the HPG axis in a songbird. Specifically, we food-restricted captive adult male Abert's Towhees
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