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Tissue mass dynamics during egg-production in female Zebra Finches Taeniopygia guttata: dietary and hormonal manipulations
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Journal Article
Tissue mass dynamics during egg-production in female Zebra Finches Taeniopygia guttata: dietary and hormonal manipulations
2000
Overview
Changes in tissue masses associated with egg production were investigated in female Zebra Finches Taeniopygia gutatta using dietary and hormonal manipulations. We tested three hypotheses: that changes in organ masses, (a) reflect utilisation of endogenous nutrient stores due to inadequate daily dietary intake, (b) involve changes in organ structure or ‘functional capacity', and (c) are initiated by onset of reproductive development (e.g. elevated plasma estrogen or yolk precursor levels, oviduct growth). Pectoral muscle lean dry mass was 18-22% lower in breeding females at the 1-egg stage compared to non-breeders, and this was independent of nutritional plane, i.e. similar changes occurred in birds provided with supplemental protein or egg food. Heart lean dry mass was also lower (16%) in breeding females, but only in birds on a low-quality seed diet, not in birds on supplemented diets. Decreases in total liver mass (14%) were due to changes in lipid content not lean dry mass, and were diet-dependent. These results demonstrate that changes in organ masses associated with egg production are complex, and do not simply reflect a general mobilisation of stored protein. We discuss why there is no hypertrophy of biosynthetic or metabolic ‘machinery' associated with egg production in birds (cf. reproducing mammals). Exogenous 17β-estradiol induced plasma levels of yolk precursors typical of breeding birds, and initiated oviduct growth (to 31% of mature size). However, estradiol treatment caused no change in mass of pectoral muscle, heart or liver, demonstrating that there is no simple relationship between onset of reproductive development and associated tissue mass changes.
Publisher
Munksgaard,Munksgaard International,Blackwell
Subject
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ birds
/ Breeding
/ Diet
/ Eggs
/ females
/ foods
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ heart
/ Lipids
/ Liver
/ mammals
/ Thermoregulation. Hibernation. Estivation. Ecophysiology and environmental effects
/ Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems
/ Zebras
