Social Brains in Context: Lesions Targeted to the Song Control System in Female Cowbirds Affect Their Social Network

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Maguire, Sarah E ^a,b   Schmidt, Marc F ^a,b   White, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN DAMAGE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; COWBIRD; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SONG CONTROL SYSTEM; SONG PREFERENCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGING; SONGBIRD;

MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; SINGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84877055975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063239     Document Type: Article

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