Untangling Elevation-related differences in the hippocampus in food-caching mountain chickadees: The effect of a uniform captive environment

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 199-209

  Freas, C A ^a   Bingman, K ^a   Ladage, L D ^b   Pravosudov, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chickadee; Environment; Evolution; Hippocampus; Memory; Neuron; Neuron soma

Indexed keywords

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS GAMBELI;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; SONGBIRDS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84886738813     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000355503     Document Type: Article

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