Evolving nonapeptide mechanisms of gregariousness and social diversity in birds

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-250

  Goodson, James L ^a   Kelly, Aubrey M ^a   Kingsbury, Marcy A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Arginine vasopressin; Arginine vasotocin; Evolution; Finch; Isotocin; Mesotocin; Oxytocin; Pair bonding; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; ISOTOCIN; MESOTOCIN; NONAPEPTIDE; NONAPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN; VT1 RECEPTOR; VT2 RECEPTOR; VT3 RECEPTOR; VT4 RECEPTOR;

BIRD; COGNITION; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GREGARIOUSNESS; HORMONAL REGULATION; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DIVERSITY; VERTEBRATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NERVE FIBERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OXYTOCIN; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VASOTOCIN; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84858683955     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.01.005     Document Type: Review

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