Pollutants increase song complexity and the volume of the brain area HVC in a songbird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Markman, Shai ^a   Leitner, Stefan ^b,c   Catchpole, Clive ^b   Barnsley, Sara ^a   Müller, Carsten T ^a   Pascoe, David ^a   Buchanan, Katherine L ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; VERTEBRATE; VOICE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERI; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 45849084976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001674     Document Type: Article

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