Patterns of FOS protein induction in singing female starlings

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 148-156

  Ellis, Jesse M S ^a   Riters, Lauren V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Female song; Immunocytochemistry; Lateral septum; Medial preoptic area; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STARLING; STRIA TERMINALIS; ZONA INCERTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SINGING; STARLINGS;

EID: 84867212675     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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