Arginine vasotocin interacts with the social environment to regulate advertisement calling in the gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 165-171

  Trainor, Brian C ^a,b   Rouse, Kathryn L ^a   Marler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertisement call; Amphibian; Gray treefrog; Hyla versicolor; Social environment; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FROG; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYLA VERSICOLOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MALE; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VASOTOCIN; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AMPHIBIA; HYLA; HYLA VERSICOLOR;

EID: 0038017040     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070700     Document Type: Article

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