In animals with oestrous patterns, the female will accept the male only when she is “in heat”, a condition relating temporally to ovulation and the presence of certain gonadal hormones.
Organogenesis requires the proper production of diverse cell types and their positioning/migration. However, the coordination of these processes during development remains poorly understood. The gonad ...
Puberty is considered to start when the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus starts releasing a hormone that activates the body's pituitary and gonadal glands. This used to happen around ...
In 2002, Dr. Comizzoli joined the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC as a staff scientist to develop new projects of gamete and gonadal tissue cryo-banking ...
LEA-I was defined as: an elevated Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire score, elevated Low Energy Availability (LEA) in Females Questionnaire score, LEA in Males Questionnaire with a focus on ...
"Not that I don't love the movies. It's just, come on guys, there are other stories to tell besides hyper-gonadal males without families doing death-defying things for two hours and wrecking ...
We are using the slider turtle as a model system for elucidating the physiology underlying sex determination and gonadal differentiation. The results have implications for both the biology and ...