Breeding-context-dependent relationships between song and cFOS labeling within social behavior brain regions in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 726-735

  Heimovics, Sarah A ^a   Riters, Lauren V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior hypothalamus; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; cFOS; Context; Immediate early gene; Lateral septum; Season; Songbird; Ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN REGION; BREEDING; CELL LABELING; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LEARNING; MALE; MATING; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BREEDING; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STARLINGS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33750948649     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.06.013     Document Type: Article

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