Natural Changes in Brain Temperature Underlie Variations in Song Tempo during a Mating Behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Aronov, Dmitriy ^a   Fee, Michale S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84868095957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047856     Document Type: Article

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