Seasonal changes in testosterone, neural attributes of song control nuclei, and song structure in wild songbirds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 6001-6010

  Smith, G Troy ^a,b   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Beecher, Michael D ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Bird song; Motor stereotypy; Seasonal plasticity; Song repertoire; Song sparrow

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BRAIN NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STEREOTYPY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030843872     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-15-06001.1997     Document Type: Article

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