Seasonal plasticity of the song control system in wild Nuttall's white- crowned sparrows

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-82

  Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Baptista, Luis F ^b   Lent, Karin ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Birdsong; Seasonal plasticity; Testosterone; White crowned sparrow

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELENCEPHALON; TESTIS SIZE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN SIZE; SEASONS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TELENCEPHALON; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031973596     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199801)34:1<69::AID-NEU6>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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