Forebrain arginine vasotocin correlates of alternative mating strategies in cricket frogs

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-61

  Marler, Catherine A ^a   Boyd, Sunny K ^b   Wilczynski, Walter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acris crepitans; Alternative mating strategies; Anuran; Arginine vasotocin; Mating behavior; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGIPRESTOCIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FROG; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032854599     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1524     Document Type: Article

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