Seasonal changes in some endocrine organs of the vole (Microtus agrestis)

Thesis

Considerable progress has been made in determining the factors in the environment which are responsible for the control of seasonal breeding in mammals and birds. There is less information available about how these factors produce their physiological effects. Light has been shown to be very important in the control of vole breeding seasons. Temperature may also have some effect. How these factors act is not known. As part of an attempt to understand how the breeding season of the vole is ...

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Authors: Forsyth, I; Forsyth, Isabel

• Publication date: 1962
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Subjects: Reproduction; Endocrine aspects; Microtus; Endocrine glands