Seasonal changes in courtship song and the medial preoptic area in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 250-261

  Riters, Lauren V ^a   Eens, Marcel ^b   Pinxten, Rianne ^b   Duffy, Deborah L ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^c   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Birdsong; Neural plasticity; Sexual arousal; Songbird

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; COURTSHIP; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

EID: 0033638983     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2000.1623     Document Type: Article

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