Social Status Interacts with Badge Size and Neuroendocrine Physiology to Influence Sexual Behavior in Male House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 141-150

  Riters, Lauren V ^a   Teague, Donald P ^a   Schroeder, Molly B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Birds; Copulation; Courtship; Dominance; Medial preoptic nucleus; Social behavior; Song control system

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; GONAD; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREOPTIC AREA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SONGBIRDS; TESTIS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; PASSER; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 1542373606     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076240     Document Type: Article

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