The bird of time: Cognition and the avian biological clock

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Cassone, Vincent M ^a   Westneat, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird song; Caching; Circadian; Homing; Melatonin; Navigation; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME 1; CRYPTOCHROME 2; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIRD; BIRD SONG; BIRD SONG LEARNING; BMAL1 GENE; BREEDING; CLOCK GENE; COGNITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINCH; FOOD CATCHING; FOREBRAIN; GENE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NIGHT SLEEP; NONHUMAN; PERIOD 2 GENE; PERIOD 3 GENE; PERIODICITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PINEAL BODY; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; SINGING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUMMER; SUN COMPASS NAVIGATION; SUNLIGHT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TELENCEPHALON; TIME COMPENSATED NAVIGATION; VOCALIZATION; WINTER;

EID: 84859321528     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2012.00032     Document Type: Article

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