Stereotypic Laryngeal and Respiratory Motor Patterns Generate Different Call Types in Rat Ultrasound Vocalization

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 319, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 213-224

  Riede, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LARYNX; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; LARYNX; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84875941270     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1785     Document Type: Article

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