Steroid accumulation in song nuclei of a sexually dimorphic duetting bird, the rufous and white wren

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-244

  Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^b   Loesche, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

estradiol; hormone accumulation; rufous and white wren; song control nuclei; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIRD; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIRDS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE; TRITIUM; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0029792960     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199610)31:2<235::AID-NEU8>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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