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  • Title: Role of the anterior hypothalamus-preoptic area in the regulation of courtship behavior in the male Canadian red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis): intracranial implantation experiments.
    Author: Friedman D, Crews D.
    Journal: Horm Behav; 1985 Jun; 19(2):122-36. PubMed ID: 4007796.
    Abstract:
    Testosterone (T) was administered intracranially to intact adult male Canadian red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) in the fall and in the summer. Implants in the anterior hypothalamus-preoptic area (AH-POA) as well as other regions of the brain, including the medial and basal hypothalamus, thalamus, medial cortex, and third ventricle, failed to elicit courtship behavior. The spermatogenic stage was more advanced, and the circulating level of androgens was significantly higher, in animals that received implants of T in the AH-POA. These findings suggest the sex steroid-concentrating sites in the AH-POA of the garter snake are involved in feedback regulation of pituitary gonadotropin secretion and not in the control of courtship behavior. Hematocrit was found to be higher in animals that received implants of T, regardless of location, a response that may be related to changes in blood chemistry prior to hibernation. These findings support previous research indicating that in the adult male red-sided garter snake, a species exhibiting a dissociated reproductive tactic, courtship behavior is independent of testicular androgens.
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