Towards meeting Tinbergen's challenge

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-27

  Ophir, Alexander G ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Finch; Grouping; Integrative biology; Lateral septum; Mating system; Mesotocin; Oxytocin; Social behavior; Social brain; Territorial; Vasopressin; Vasotocin; Vole

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ETHOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINCH; HERD; MATING; NATURAL SELECTION; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PEROMYSCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOLE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SONGBIRDS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 79958064375     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.03.012     Document Type: Note

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