ZENK labeling within social behavior brain regions reveals breeding context-dependent patterns of neural activity associated with song in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 333-343

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; High vocal center; Lateral septum; Season; Social context; Songbird; Ventromedial nucleus of hypothalamus; ZENK

Indexed keywords

ZENK PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BREEDING; CELL LABELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BREEDING; FEMALE; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STARLINGS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33845316469     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.10.023     Document Type: Article

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