Generating sexually differentiated vocal patterns: Laryngeal nerve and EMG recordings from vocalizing male and female African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1559-1567

  Yamaguchi, Ayako ^a   Kelley, Darcy B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound action potentials; Electromyograms; Nerve recordings; Sex differences; Vocalizations; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FROG; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034652082     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-04-01559.2000     Document Type: Article

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