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Reflections on the attainment of puberty in the rat: have circadian signals a role to play in its onset?

The control of the onset of puberty, or the ability to procreate successfully, is as little understood today as it was 10 or 20 years ago. However, with respect to the development of mechanisms subserving the production and regulation of sex cells in the rat, much new information has accrued over the past few years. Since puberty is characterized by the integration and synchronization of such mechanisms it may be profitable, as a start to this symposium, to collate and attempt to resynthesize some of the available data.