Effects of songs and calls on ZENK expression in the auditory telencephalon of field- and isolate-reared black capped chickadees

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 125-134

  Phillmore, Leslie S ^a   Bloomfield, Laurie L ^a   Weisman, Ronald G ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Black capped chickadee; cmHV; NCM; Poecile atricapilla; Vocalizations; ZENK

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZENK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEARING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MUSIC; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; POECILE ATRICAPILLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0344945567     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00155-4     Document Type: Article

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