Sexually dimorphic areas in the brain of whiptail lizards

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 262-270

  Crews, David ^a   Wade, Juli ^a   Wilczynski, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior hypothalamus; Brain; Differentiation; Lizard; Preoptic area; Reptile; Sexual behavior; Sexual dimorphism; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE;

ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; LIZARDS; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREOPTIC AREA; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALIA; MACRURONUS NOVAEZELANDIAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0024998175     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000115312     Document Type: Article

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