Seasonal growth of song control nuclei precedes seasonal reproductive development in wild adult song sparrows

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-9

  Tramontin, Anthony D ^a   Perfito, Nicole ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Plasticity; Season; Song nuclei; Song sparrow; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGING; SONGBIRD; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WINTER;

MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 0035053609     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7597     Document Type: Article

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