Photoperiodic Control of the Termination of Reproduction in Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) Brian K. Follett and Alison Pearce-Kelly Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 1990 242, 225-230 doi: 10.1098/rspb.1990.0128
Photoperiodic control of the termination of reproduction in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica).
Typically, birds come into breeding in the spring as a response to long days, and end reproduction some weeks later by becoming refractory to those lo...