Immediate early gene response to hearing song correlates with receptive behavior and depends on dialect in a female songbird

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 667-674

  Maney, D L ^a,b   MacDougall Shackleton, E A ^c   MacDougall Shackleton, S A ^c   Ball, G F ^a   Hahn, T P ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Sexual behavior; Song; White crowned sparrow; ZENK

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; COPULATION; DRUG IMPLANT; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COPULATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG IMPLANTS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0142027892     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-003-0441-z     Document Type: Article

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