Behavioural and neurophysiological aspects of sexual imprinting in zebra finches

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-276

  Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a   Rollenhagen, Astrid ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian forebrain; Development; Golgi; Induction; Regression; Spine density

Indexed keywords

CYPROTERONE ACETATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; FEMALE; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033082172     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00093-X     Document Type: Article

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