Early-life stress affects the behavioural and neural response of female song sparrows to conspecific song

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 825-837

  Schmidt, Kim L ^a   McCallum, Erin S ^a,b   MacDougall Shackleton, Elizabeth A ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Caudomedial mesopallium; Caudomedial nidopallium; CMM; Developmental stress; HVC; Melospiza melodia; NCM; RA; Song preference

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CELL ORGANELLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NEUROLOGY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERI;

EID: 84875506540     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.029     Document Type: Article

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