The brain plays a critical role in upstream regulation of processes central to mating effort,
parental effort, and self-maintenance. For seasonally breeding animals, the brain is likely
mediating trade-offs among these processes within a short breeding season, yet research
thus far has only explored neurogenomic changes from non-breeding to breeding states or
select pathways (eg, steroids) in male and/or lab-reared animals. Here, we use RNA-seq to
explore neural plasticity in three behaviorally relevant neural tissues (ventromedial …