Arginine vasotocin promotes calling behavior and call changes in male túngara frogs

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 254-265

  Kime, Nicole M ^a,b   Whitney, Tina K ^a   Davis, Ellen S ^a,c   Marler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EDGEWOOD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertisement call; Animal communication; Anuran; Arginine vasotocin; Physalaemus pustulosus; Sexual selection; T ngara frog

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FROG; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANURA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MOTIVATION; VASOTOCIN; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS;

EID: 34247357783     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099613     Document Type: Article

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