Assessing visual requirements for social context-dependent activation of the songbird song system

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1655, 2009, Pages 279-289

  Hara, Erina ^a,b,c   Kubikova, Lubica ^d   Hessler, Neal A ^b   Jarvis, Erich D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Courtship; Directed singing; egr 1; Social behaviour; Vocal nuclei; ZENK

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONG; SONGBIRD; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AVES; PASSERI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149231287     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1138     Document Type: Article

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