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Synopsis  Previous research has demonstrated that testosterone (T) can inhibit growth in female-larger species and stimulate growth in male-larger species, but the underlying mechanisms of this regulatory bipotentiality have not been investigated. In this study, we investigated the effects of T on the expression of hepatic insulin-like growth factor-1 ( IGF-1 ) mRNA and circulating IGF-1 hormone in  Sceloporus undulatus , a species of lizard in which females grow faster to become larger than males and in which T inhibits growth. Experiments were performed in captivity on mature female and male adults in the asymptotic phase of their growth curve and on actively growing, pre-reproductive juveniles. In adult males, the expression of hepatic  IGF-1  mRNA increased following surgical castration and returned to control levels with T replacement; in intact adult females, exogenous T had no effect on  IGF-1  mRNA expression. In juveniles, T significantly reduced both growth and the expression of hepatic  IGF-1  mRNA to similar extents in intact females and in castrated males. The relative inhibitory effects of T on mRNA expression were greater in juveniles than in adults. Plasma IGF-1 hormone was about four times higher in juveniles than in adults, but T had no significant effect on IGF-1 hormone in either sex or in either age group. Our finding of inhibition of the expression of hepatic  IGF-1  mRNA stands in contrast to the stimulatory effects of T in the published body of literature. We attribute our novel finding to our use of a species in which T inhibits rather than stimulates growth. Our findings begin to explain how T has the regulatory bipotentiality to be stimulatory in some species and inhibitory in others, requiring only an evolutionary reversal in the molecular regulation of growth-regulatory genes including  IGF-1 . Further comparative transcriptomic studies will be required to fully resolve the molecular mechanism of growth inhibition.

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Testosterone Reduces Growth and Hepatic <i>IGF-1</i> mRNA in a Female-Larger Lizard, <i>Sceloporus undulatus</i>: Evidence of an Evolutionary Reversal in Growth Regulation

Testosterone Reduces Growth and Hepatic IGF-1 mRNA in a Female-Larger Lizard, Sceloporus undulatus: Evidence of an Evolutionary Reversal in Growth Regulation