Immediate early gene (ZENK, Arc) expression in the auditory forebrain of female canaries varies in response to male song quality

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-284

  Leitner, Stefan ^a,b,c   Voigt, Cornelia ^b   Metzdorf, Reinhold ^c   Catchpole, Clive K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arc; Brain; Caudomedial mesopallium (CMM, formerly CMHV); Caudomedial nidopallium (NCM); Female canary; HVC; Immediate early gene; Song; ZENK

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARC GENE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN REGION; CANARY; CAUDOMEDIAL MESOPALLIUM; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALLIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HEARING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; ZENK GENE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CANARIES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 22244468980     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20135     Document Type: Article

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