Song Competition Affects Monoamine Levels in Sensory and Motor Forebrain Regions of Male Lincoln's Sparrows (Melospiza lincolnii)

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Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sewall, Kendra B ^a,c   Caro, Samuel P ^a,d   Sockman, Keith W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MONOAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA X; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CAUDOMEDIAL MESOPALLIUM; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALLIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FOREBRAIN; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MELOSPIZA LINCOLNII; METABOLITE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ROBUST NUCLEUS OF THE ARCOPALLIUM; SINGING; SPARROW; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; PROSENCEPHALON; SEROTONIN; SPARROWS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELOSPIZA LINCOLNII; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 84875431819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059857     Document Type: Article

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