Behavioral indices of breeding readiness in female European starlings correlate with immunolabeling for catecholamine markers in brain areas involved in sexual motivation

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 359-368

  Pawlisch, Benjamin A ^a,b   Kelm Nelson, Cynthia A ^b   Stevenson, Sharon A ^b   Riters, Lauren V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Female sexual motivation; Medial preoptic nucleus; Nucleus accumbens; Songbird; Ventral tegmental area; Ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMUS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STARLING; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STARLINGS;

EID: 84867742121     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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