Early condition, song learning, and the volume of song brain nuclei in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1602-1612

  Gil, Diego ^a   Naguib, Marc ^b   Riebel, Katharina ^c   Rutstein, Alison ^d   Gahr, Manfred ^e  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Developmental stress; HVC; LMAN; RA; Song brain nuclei

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONDITIONING; DEVELOPMENT; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINCH; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; LATERAL MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS OF THE ANTERIOR NIDOPALLADIUM; LEARNING; MALE; MALE ANIMAL; MORPHOMETRICS; NESTLING; NEUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROBUST NUCLEUS OF THE ARCOPALLADIUM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SINGING; SOCIAL LEARNING; SONG COMPLEXITY; SONG LEARNING; SONGBIRD; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; STRESS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33845762751     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20312     Document Type: Article

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