Phase inversion of neural activity in the olfactory and visual systems of a night-migratory bird during migration

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-109

  Rastogi, Ashutosh ^b   Kumari, Yatinesh ^b   Rani, Sangeeta ^b   Kumar, Vinod ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

Bunting; Migration; Olfaction; Phase inversion; Vision

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBERIZA MELANOCEPHALA; FLIGHT; MALE; MIGRATORY NAVIGATION; MIGRATORY ORIENTATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SONGBIRD; TESTIS SIZE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY COMPOSITION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHOTOPERIOD; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEASONS; SMELL; SONGBIRDS; TESTIS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79959938116     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07737.x     Document Type: Article

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