Seasonal Variation in Group Size Is Related to Seasonal Variation in Neuropeptide Receptor Density

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 111-126

  Wilson, Leah C ^a   Goodson, James L ^a   Kingsbury, Marcy A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Mesotocin; Oxytocin; Seasonality; Songbird; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide; Vasopressin; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN PROTEIN; ARGIPRESTOCIN; ORNIPRESSIN; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; SAUVAGINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPARROW; WILD ANIMAL;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; ORNIPRESSIN; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PROTEIN BINDING; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPARROWS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84994154358     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: 14219743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000448372     Document Type: Article

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