The underestimated role of olfaction in avian reproduction?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 248-259

  Balthazart, Jacques ^a   Taziaux, Mélanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Avian olfaction; Copulatory behavior; Ducks; Immediate early gene; Japanese quail; Medial preoptic area

Indexed keywords

ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIRD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NOSE CARTILAGE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SMELL;

EID: 64049098887     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.08.036     Document Type: Article

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