Vocal area-related expression of the androgen receptor in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) brain

Brain Research

Volumn 1208, Issue , 2008, Pages 87-94

  Matsunaga, Eiji ^a,b   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Budgerigar; Evolution; Gene expression; Songbird

Indexed keywords

MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; PASSERI; PSITTACIDAE; TROCHILIDAE;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUDGERIGAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SONGBIRD; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VOCALIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; MELOPSITTACUS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 43049148273     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.02.076     Document Type: Article

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