Migratory dark-eyed juncos, Junco hyemalis, have better spatial memory and denser hippocampal neurons than nonmigratory conspecifics

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 317-328

  Cristol, Daniel A ^a   Reynolds, Erica B ^a   Leclerc, Joshua E ^a   Donner, Austin H ^a   Farabaugh, Christopher S ^a   Ziegenfus, Charles W S ^b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; EVOLUTION; MEMORY; MIGRATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAROLINENSIS; JUNCO; JUNCO HYEMALIS; JUNCO HYEMALIS HYEMALIS;

EID: 0042069975     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2194     Document Type: Article

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