Recent experience modulates forebrain gene-expression in response to mate-choice cues in European starlings

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1508, 2002, Pages 2479-2485

  Sockman, Keith W ^a   Gentner, Timothy Q ^b   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird song; Female choice; Immediate early gene; Neuroplasticity; Sexual selection; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; STURNUS VULGARIS;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0037039020     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2180     Document Type: Article

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