Environmental regulation of annual schedules in opportunistically-breeding songbirds: Adaptive specializations or variations on a theme of white-crowned sparrow?

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-226

  Hahn, Thomas P ^a   Cornelius, Jamie M ^a   Sewall, Kendra B ^a   Kelsey, T Rodd ^a   Hau, Michaela ^b   Perfito, Nicole ^c  

^a Animal Behavior Graduate Group   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual cycles; Crossbill; Darwin's finch; Geospiza; GnRH; Loxia; Non photic cues; Opportunism; Photoperiod; Photorefractoriness; Taeniopygia; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ADAPTATION; ASSOCIATION; BREEDING; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSSBILL; DARWIN FINCH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HABITAT; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; ZEBRAFINCH;

EID: 46049085201     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.05.007     Document Type: Review

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