Sexual imprinting leads to lateralized and non-lateralized expression of the immediate early gene zenk in the zebra finch brain

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 145-155

  Lieshoff, Carsten ^a   Große Ophoff, Jürgen ^a   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immediate early genes; Lateralization; Learning; Sexual imprinting; Zebra finch; ZENK

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL IMPRINTING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0346365546     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00189-X     Document Type: Article

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