Social behaviour and bird song from a neural and endocrine perspective

Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-84

  Adkins Regan, Elizabeth ^a   DeVoogd, Timothy J ^a   Moore, Jordan M ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511781360.007     Document Type: Chapter

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