Complementary neural system for the experience-dependent integration of mate-choice cues in European starlings

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 72-81

  Sockman, Keith W ^a   Gentner, Timothy Q ^b   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory telencephalon; Bird song; Caudomedial mesopallium (CMM, cmHV); Caudomedial nidopallium (NCM); FOS; Immediate early genes (IEG); Mate sampling; Plasticity; Sexual selection; Sturnus vulgaris; ZENK

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EGR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GENETICS; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STARLING; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; FEMALE; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STARLINGS; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 10444270294     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20068     Document Type: Article

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