Territorial aggression and dawn song are modulated by septal vasotocin and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide in male field sparrows (Spizella pusilia)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-77

  Goodson, James L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Field sparrow; Septum; Song; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide; Vasopressin; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; SILASTIC; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE ACTION; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0032142973     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1998.1467     Document Type: Article

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