Vocal production in different social contexts relates to variation in immediate early gene immunoreactivity within and outside of the song control system

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 307-318

  Riters, Lauren V ^a   Teague, Donald P ^a   Schroeder, Molly B ^a   Cummings, Sydney E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Birdsong; Medial amygdala; Medial preoptic nucleus; Reproduction; Sexual motivation; Song control system; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOCALIZATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PREOPTIC AREA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPARROWS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 4444228147     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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