Song control nuclei in male and female large-billed crows (Corvus macrorhynchos)

Zoological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 771-777

  Wang, Rui ^a   Sun, Yingyu ^a   Zhang, Xuebo ^a   Zeng, Shaoju ^a   Xie, Wenqing ^a   Yu, Yueqiang ^a   Zhang, Xinwen ^b   Zuo, Mingxue ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hainan Normal College   (China)

Author keywords

Neural connectivity; Sexual difference; Song behavior; Song control nuclei; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CROW; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CROWS; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

CORVIDAE; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS; PASSERI;

EID: 70450277283     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.26.771     Document Type: Article

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