Sex difference in the size of the neural song control regions in a dueting songbird with similar song repertoire size of males and females

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1124-1131

  Gahr, Manfred ^a   Sonnenschein, Edith ^a   Wickler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Max Planck Inst V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain space behavior correlation; Females; Males; Sexual dimorphism; Singing; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VOCAL CORD;

EID: 0031889038     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-03-01124.1998     Document Type: Article

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