Individual differences in the motivation to communicate relate to levels of midbrain and striatal catecholamine markers in male European starlings

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 529-539

  Heimovics, Sarah A ^a,d   Salvante, Katrina G ^b,e   Sockman, Keith W ^b,c   Riters, Lauren V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Courtship; Dopamine; Motivation; Norepinephrine; Sexual behavior; Social behavior; Social context; Song control system; Songbird

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EFFERENT NERVE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STARLING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTIVATION; NEOSTRIATUM; NOREPINEPHRINE; STARLINGS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80555150632     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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