The decision of male medaka to mate or fight depends on two complementary androgen signaling pathways

Y Nishiike, K Okubo - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Adult male animals typically court and attempt to mate with females, while attacking other
males. Emerging evidence from mice indicates that neurons expressing the estrogen …

Post-mating inhibition of female sexual drive via heterogeneous neuronal ensembles in the medial preoptic area

KK Ishii, K Hashikawa, J Chea, S Yin, RE Fox, S Kan… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The completion of mating acutely suppresses sexual motivation in male mice. In contrast,
relatively little is known about how the completion of mating affects sexual motivation and …

Epigenomic organization and activation of brain sex differences

B Gegenhuber - 2022 - repository.cshl.edu
The “Organizational-Activational Hypothesis”, the central dogma of neuroendocrinology,
states that early-life (“organizational”) and adult (“activational”) gonadal hormone signaling …