Bi-directional sexual dimorphisms of the song control nucleus HVC in a songbird with unison song

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Gahr, Manfred ^a   Metzdorf, Reinhold ^a   Schmidl, Dieter ^a   Wickler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MUNC18 PROTEIN; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGING; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION; VOICE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BREEDING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

PASSERI; PLOCEINAE; PLOCEUS BICOLOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BREEDING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 52449093080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003073     Document Type: Article

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