Social and breeding status are associated with the expression of GnIH

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 557-564

  Calisi, R M ^a   Diaz Munoz S L ^a   Wingfield, J C ^b   Bentley, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding status; Corticosterone; European starling (Sturnus vulgaris); GnIH; GnRH; Reproduction; Social status; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GONADORELIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STARLING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STARLINGS; TESTOSTERONE;

AVES; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 79960029309     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2011.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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