Decreased Fecal Corticosterone Levels Due to Domestication: A Comparison Between the White-Backed Munia (Lonchura striata) and Its Domesticated Strain, the Bengalese Finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) With a Suggestion for Complex Song Evolution

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 317, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 561-570

  Suzuki, Kenta ^a,b,c   Yamada, Hiroko ^c,d   Kobayashi, Tetsuya ^b   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,c,e  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FECES; FINCH; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CORTICOSTERONE; FECES; FINCHES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84867379003     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1748     Document Type: Article

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