Reproductive hormones modify reception of species-typical communication signals in a female anuran

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-150

  Lynch, Kathleen S ^a,b   Wilczynski, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Amphibian; Gonadotropin; Immediate early genes; Midbrain

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; SEX HORMONE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPINS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AMPHIBIA; PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 39549111445     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111460     Document Type: Article

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