Hippocampal neuron soma size is associated with population differences in winter climate severity in food-caching chickadees

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1341-1349

  Freas, Cody A ^a   Roth, Timothy C ^b   Ladage, Lara D ^a   Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chickadee; Climate; Evolution; Food caching; Hippocampus; Memory; Neuron size

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COGNITION; DATA ACQUISITION; EVOLUTION; FOOD; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SELECTION; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL; WINTER;

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PARUS GAMBELI;

EID: 84887826061     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12125     Document Type: Article

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