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Science 27 November 1970:
Vol. 170. no. 3961, pp. 995 - 997
DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3961.995
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Pineal Function and Oviposition in Japanese Quail: Superior Cervical Ganglionectomy and Photoperiod

Charles L. Ralph 1, Harry J. Lynch 1, G. Craig Gundy 1, and Laurence Hedlund 2

1 Department of Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 Department of Animal Science-Genetics, University of Illinois, Urbana

Bilateral ablation of the superior cervical ganglia appears to deprive the pineal body of sympathetic innervation. Although this procedure presumably interrupts the neural circuit for transmission of optic information to the pineal, oviposition rates of ganglionectomized females exposed to stimulatory (15-hour) or to nonstimulatory (4-hour) daily photoperiods do not differ from those of the controls.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)