LIGHT IMPACT. “When continuously exposed to long days, short day photosensitive migratory birds show successive seasonal life-history states, characterized by premigratory (initiation of lipogenesis and gametogenesis), migratory (fat deposition and increased body mass, recrudesced gonads, and nocturnal migratory restlessness, known as Zugunruhe, and postmigratory [fat stores depleted and lean body mass, regressed gonads, return to day activity, and development of photorefractoriness; long day refractory)] phenotypes.”
http://www.fasebj.org/content/29/10/4248.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022