CONCENTRATIONS OF PROLACTIN AND LUTEINIZING HORMONE IN PLASMA OF DOVES IN RELATION TO INCUBATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CROP GLAND
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Journal of Endocrinology
- Vol. 90 (3), 437-443
- https://doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.0900437
Abstract
The concentrations of prolactin and LH were measured in the plasma of male and female ring doves (Streptopelia risoria) during the breeding cycle. Prolactin concentrations were low during courtship and early incubation but increased markedly (P<0·01 in both sexes) between days 7 and 15 of incubation, during the period of rapid growth of the crop sac. Levels remained raised for 4 days after the young had hatched but then declined as the crop sacs gradually regressed. These observations showed that concentrations of prolactin were high at the time when the crop sacs were proliferating and producing 'milk' for feeding the young, but that there was no increase in prolactin secretion at the onset of incubation as occurs in ducks, hens and other birds. In samples taken from doves at various times of the day and night there was no increase in plasma prolactin during the first few days of incubation. Concentrations of LH in plasma were generally higher in male doves than in females, but in both sexes were significantly higher during courtship than during incubation and brooding the young. Concentrations increased again when the young were independent and the parents began a second round of courtship.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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