Sexual differentiation of avian brain and behavior: Current views on gonadal hormone-dependent and independent mechanisms

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 1998, Pages 407-429

  Schlinger, Barney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Quail; Song system; Songbirds; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COPULATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SINGING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031919672     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.60.1.407     Document Type: Review

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