BISC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Male Pregnancy, Ovipositor, Spermatophore

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Fsh also stimulates the production of inhibin by granulosa cells, which inhibits the release of fsh from the anterior pituitary. Seasonality and reproductive cycles: many animals have reproductive cycles that vary seasonally. For example, the silkworm moth lays eggs in summer. Adults produced from these eggs lay eggs that enter diapause (developmental dormancy), which survive over the winter to hatch in spring. The fur seal: females become sexually receptive and fertile in early summer. Once pregnant, the egg enters diapause, and implantation is delayed until autumn. For example, the number of females that are pregnant in a population of field mice varies geographically. In the far north, females only reproduce during the summer months, which is only. Mice in temperate areas have bimodal breeding, where females are pregnant in early spring and again in late summer, while tropical field mice do not have seasonal breeding periods.

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