Sensorimotor Processing Model: How Vasotocin and Corticosterone Interact and Control Reproductive Behaviors in an Amphibian

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter reviews research on amphibians, focusing questions about the hormonal mechanisms that regulate reproductive behaviors. In wild, animals usually perform courtship and mating behaviors during specific seasons; in species-specific contexts, typically, when conspecific males females are breeding condition, environmental conditions favorable appropriate. There is considerable complexity external internal cues affecting behaviors, and, as a result, regulation of these Hormones control development sex- neural circuitry, sexual structures bring into condition at appropriate season animals' behavioral state response to immediate conditions. These include stimulatory inhibitory pathways ready, able initiate with prospective partners mate successfully.