Unconventional sex: Fresh approaches to courtship learning

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 745-750

  Mehren, Jennifer E ^a   Ejima, Aki ^a   Griffith, Leslie C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; COURTSHIP; GENE EXPRESSION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 9644291870     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.10.012     Document Type: Review

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