Localizing Brain Regions Associated with Female Mate Preference Behavior in a Swordtail

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wong, Ryan Y ^a   Ramsey, Mary E ^a   Cummings, Molly E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROSERPIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; FISH; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; XIPHOPHORUS NIGRENSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DIGOXIGENIN; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; SERPINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TELENCEPHALON;

XIPHOPHORUS NIGRENSIS;

EID: 84870532827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050355     Document Type: Article

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