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A dorsomedial subdivision within the nucleus intercollicularis identified in the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) by means of alpha 2-adrenergic receptor autoradiography and estrogen receptor immunohistochemistry

scientific article published on 01 July 1989

A new method for in vitro detection of bromodeoxyuridine in serum: a proof of concept in a songbird species, the canary.

scientific article

A role for norepinephrine in the regulation of context-dependent ZENK expression in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).

scientific article published in April 2005

Acoustic fine structure may encode biologically relevant information for zebra finches.

scientific article

Age- and behavior-related variation in volumes of song control nuclei in male European starlings

scientific article published in July 1996

Age- and sex-related variation in song-control regions in Cassin's finches, Carpodacus cassinii

scientific article published on 18 March 2005

An autoradiographic study of alpha 1-adrenergic receptors in the brain of the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

scientific article published on 01 December 1989

Anatomical localization of the effects of 17 beta-estradiol on oxytocin receptor binding in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus.

scientific article published in January 1989

Anatomical localization of the effects of reproductive state, castration, and social milieu on cells immunoreactive for gonadotropin-releasing hormone-I in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article published in November 2009

Anatomical relationships between aromatase and tyrosine hydroxylase in the quail brain: Double-label immunocytochemical studies ⬇️

scientific article published on February 9, 1998

Anatomically discrete sex differences and enhancement by testosterone of cell proliferation in the telencephalic ventricle zone of the adult canary brain

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Androgen metabolism and the activation of male sexual behavior: it's more complicated than you think!

scientific article published on 19 August 2005

Androgens and estrogens synergistically regulate the expression of doublecortin and enhance neuronal recruitment in the song system of adult female canaries

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2011)

Are rapid changes in gonadal testosterone release involved in the fast modulation of brain estrogen effects?

scientific article published on 03 May 2009

Aromatase inhibition rapidly affects in a reversible manner distinct features of birdsong

scientific article

Assessment of volumetric sex differences in the song control nuclei HVC and RA in zebra finches by immunocytochemistry for methionine enkephalin and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

scientific article published in November 1995

Autoradiographic localization of D1-like dopamine receptors in the forebrain of male and female Japanese quail and their relationship with immunoreactive tyrosine hydroxylase

scientific article published in August 1995

Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution

scientific article

Behavioral effects of brain-derived estrogens in birds.

scientific article

Behavioral evidence for sex steroids hypersensitivity in castrated male canaries

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Birds return every spring like clockwork, but where is the clock?

scientific article

C-fos down-regulation inhibits testosterone-dependent male sexual behavior and the associated learning.

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

Calcium-dependent phosphorylation processes control brain aromatase in quail

scientific article published on April 2003

Catecholaminergic cell groups and vocal communication in male songbirds

scientific article

Catecholaminergic inputs to aromatase cells in the canary auditory forebrain

scientific article published in August 2004

Changes in brain GnRH associated with photorefractoriness in house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

Changes in preoptic estradiol concentrations during male sexual behavior

scholarly article

Characterization and localization of D1 dopamine receptors in the sexually dimorphic vocal control nucleus, area X, and the basal ganglia of European starlings

scientific article published in July 1994

Cloning of gonadotropin-releasing hormone I complementary DNAs in songbirds facilitates dissection of mechanisms mediating seasonal changes in reproduction.

scientific article published on 08 January 2009

Colocalization of immediate early genes in catecholamine cells after song exposure in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).

scientific article

Comparative studies of sex differences in the song-control system of songbirds.

scientific article

Complementary neural systems for the experience-dependent integration of mate-choice cues in European starlings

scientific article published in January 2005

Concurrent invasions of European starlings in Australia and North America reveal population‐specific differentiation in shared genomic regions

scientific article published in 2023

Coordinated and dissociated effects of testosterone on singing behavior and song control nuclei in canaries (Serinus canaria).

scientific article

Development of perineuronal nets during ontogeny correlates with sensorimotor vocal learning in canaries

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Differential control of appetitive and consummatory sexual behavior by neuroestrogens in male quail

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Differential effects of D1 and D2 dopamine-receptor agonists and antagonists on appetitive and consummatory aspects of male sexual behavior in Japanese quail

scientific article published on 01 September 1997

Differential effects of central injections of D1 and D2 receptor agonists and antagonists on male sexual behavior in Japanese quail.

scientific article

Differential effects of global versus local testosterone on singing behavior and its underlying neural substrate

scientific article

Discrimination of natural acoustic variation in vocal signals

scientific article

Disruption of neuropsin mRNA expression via RNA interference facilitates the photoinduced increase in thyrotropin-stimulating subunit β in birds

scientific article published on 9 July 2012

Dissociable Effects on Birdsong of Androgen Signaling in Cortex-Like Brain Regions of Canaries

scientific article

Dissociable effects of social context on song and doublecortin immunoreactivity in male canaries.

scientific article

Distinct neuroendocrine mechanisms control neural activity underlying sex differences in sexual motivation and performance

scientific article published on 3 January 2013

Distribution of alpha 2-adrenergic receptors in the brain of the Japanese quail as determined by quantitative autoradiography: implications for the control of sexually dimorphic reproductive processes

scientific article published on 01 July 1989

Distribution of androgen receptor-immunoreactive cells in the quail forebrain and their relationship with aromatase immunoreactivity ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

Diversity of mechanisms involved in aromatase regulation and estrogen action in the brain

scientific article

Do ring doves copulate more than necessary for fertilization?

scientific article published on 01 October 1981

Does sex or photoperiodic condition influence ZENK induction in response to song in European starlings?

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Dopamine binds to alpha(2)-adrenergic receptors in the song control system of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

scientific article (publication date: March 2008)

Dopamine modulates male sexual behavior in Japanese quail in part via actions on noradrenergic receptors

scientific article published in August 2005

Dopamine release in the medial preoptic area is related to hormonal action and sexual motivation.

scientific article

Doublecortin as a marker of adult neuroplasticity in the canary song control nucleus HVC.

scientific article published in February 2008

Doublecortin is a highly valuable endogenous marker of adult neurogenesis in canaries. Commentary on Vellema M et al. (2014): Evaluating the predictive value of doublecortin as a marker for adult neurogenesis in canaries (Serinus canaria) . J [...]

scientific article

Dynamic changes in brain aromatase activity following sexual interactions in males: where, when and why?

scientific article published on 21 September 2012

Early administration of 17beta-estradiol partially masculinizes song control regions and alpha2-adrenergic receptor distribution in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article published in December 1996

Economy of mate attraction in the Cassin's finch.

scientific article

Effects of Inactivation of the Periaqueductal Gray on Song Production in Testosterone-Treated Male Canaries (Serinus canaria)

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

Effects of Song Experience and Song Quality on Immediate Early Gene Expression in Female Canaries (Serinus canaria)

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Effects of a novel partner and sexual satiety on the expression of male sexual behavior and brain aromatase activity in quail

scientific article published on 18 November 2018

Effects of calmodulin on aromatase activity in the preoptic area

scientific article

Effects of dopamine agonists on appetitive and consummatory male sexual behavior in Japanese quail

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Effects of lesions of nucleus taeniae on appetitive and consummatory aspects of male sexual behavior in Japanese quail

scientific article published in January 2002

Effects of sex steroids on aromatase mRNA expression in the male and female quail brain ⬇️

scientific article published on October 15, 2010

Effects of social experience on subsequent sexual performance in naïve male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

scientific article

Effects of the noradrenergic neurotoxin DSP-4 on luteinizing hormone levels, catecholamine concentrations, alpha 2-adrenergic receptor binding, and aromatase activity in the brain of the Japanese quail

scientific article published on 01 July 1989

Elevated Fos-like immunoreactivity in the brains of postpartum female prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Endocrine and social regulation of adult neurogenesis in songbirds

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Endogenous versus exogenous markers of adult neurogenesis in canaries and other birds: advantages and disadvantages

scientific article

Estradiol, a key endocrine signal in the sexual differentiation and activation of reproductive behavior in quail.

scientific article published on June 2009

Estrogen Receptor β Activation Rapidly Modulates Male Sexual Motivation through the Transactivation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 1a.

scientific article

Estrogen receptor-beta in quail: cloning, tissue expression and neuroanatomical distribution

scientific article published on September 1999

Ethological concepts revisited: immediate early gene induction in response to sexual stimuli in birds.

scientific article

Evidence for opioid involvement in the regulation of song production in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article published in February 2005

Evolutionary neuroscience: Are the brains of birds and mammals really so different?

scientific article published in 2021

Expression of cAMP response element binding protein-binding protein in the song control system and hypothalamus of adult European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article published in October 2002

Expression of reelin, its receptors and its intracellular signaling protein, Disabled1 in the canary brain: relationships with the song control system.

scientific article

Familiarity enhances moment-to-moment behavioral coordination in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) dyads

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Fast regulation of steroid biosynthesis: a further piece in the neurosteroid puzzle

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Fos expression in monoaminergic cell groups in response to sociosexual interactions in male and female Japanese quail

scientific article published on February 2014

Fos induction in the Japanese quail brain after expression of appetitive and consummatory aspects of male sexual behavior

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Fos-like immunoreactivity in catecholaminergic brain nuclei after territorial behavior in free-living song sparrows

scientific article published in August 2003

Functional Incubation in Male Barn Swallows ⬇️

scholarly article

Functional differences in forebrain auditory regions during learned vocal recognition in songbirds

scientific article published on 21 September 2004

Functional significance of the rapid regulation of brain estrogen action: where do the estrogens come from?

scientific article

Glutamate released in the preoptic area during sexual behavior controls local estrogen synthesis in male quail

scientific article

Gonadal steroid receptor mRNA in catecholaminergic nuclei of the canary brainstem

scientific article

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone plasticity: a comparative perspective.

scientific article

HVC lesions modify immediate early gene expression in auditory forebrain regions of female songbirds

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

High throughput analysis reveals dissociable gene expression profiles in two independent neural systems involved in the regulation of social behavior

scientific article (publication date: 19 October 2012)

Hormonal regulation of brain circuits mediating male sexual behavior in birds

scientific article published in November 2004

How canaries listen to their song: Species-specific shape of auditory perception

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

How does testosterone act to regulate a multifaceted adaptive response? Lessons from studies of the avian song system

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

How useful is the appetitive and consummatory distinction for our understanding of the neuroendocrine control of sexual behavior?

scientific article published on 12 October 2007

Identification of the origin of catecholaminergic inputs to HVc in canaries by retrograde tract tracing combined with tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Identity of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in passerine birds: comparison of GnRH in song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) and starling (Sturnus vulgaris) with five vertebrate GnRHs

scientific article

Immediate early gene response to hearing song correlates with receptive behavior and depends on dialect in a female songbird.

scientific article published on 19 July 2003

Immunocytochemical localization of androgen receptors in the male songbird and quail brain.

scientific article published in March 1992

Impact of experience-dependent and -independent factors on gene expression in songbird brain

scientific article

In memoriam — Mei-Fang Cheng (1938 to 2022)

scientific article published in 2022

In memoriam: Ronald J. Barfield (July 25, 1936-September 29, 2015)

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Independent effects of song quality and experience with photostimulation on expression of the immediate, early gene ZENK (EGR-1) in the auditory telencephalon of female European starlings

scientific article

Individual variation and the endocrine regulation of behaviour and physiology in birds: a cellular/molecular perspective

scientific article published on May 2008

Individual vocal recognition and the effect of partial lesions to HVc on discrimination, learning, and categorization of conspecific song in adult songbirds

scientific article published in January 2000

Information theory and the neuropeptidergic regulation of seasonal reproduction in mammals and birds ⬇️

scientific article published on January 5, 2011

Inhibition of steroid receptor coactivator-1 blocks estrogen and androgen action on male sex behavior and associated brain plasticity.

scientific article

Interactions between aromatase (estrogen synthase) and dopamine in the control of male sexual behavior in quail.

scientific article

Interplay among catecholamine systems: dopamine binds to alpha2-adrenergic receptors in birds and mammals

scientific article

Intraspecific variation in testosterone-induced neuroplasticity in two canary strains

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Introduction to the chemical neuroanatomy of birdsong

scientific article published on 29 October 2009

Is brain estradiol a hormone or a neurotransmitter?

scientific article

Is it useful to view the brain as a secondary sexual characteristic?

scientific article published on 03 September 2014

Is sexual motivational state linked to dopamine release in the medial preoptic area?

scientific article

Is testis variation the key to understanding why males seem so different from one another? Commentary on "Examining sources of variation in HPG axis function among individuals and populations of the dark-eyed juncos". By Christine M. Bergeon Burns,

scientific article published on 15 November 2013

Japanese quail as a model system for studying the neuroendocrine control of reproductive and social behaviors

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Lesions targeted to the anterior forebrain disrupt vocal variability associated with testosterone-induced sensorimotor song development in adult female canaries, Serinus canaria

scientific article

Lesions to the medial preoptic area affect singing in the male European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article published in December 1999

Long-term enhancement of synaptic responses in the songbird hippocampus

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Long-term potentiation in the avian hippocampus does not require activation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor

scientific article published in February 1993

Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR): A mediator of social development

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Medial Preoptic Regulation of the Ventral Tegmental Area Related to the Control of Sociosexual Behaviors.

scientific article

Melatonin, immunity and cost of reproductive state in male European starlings

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Multiple mechanisms control brain aromatase activity at the genomic and non-genomic level.

scientific article published on September 2003

Muscarinic cholinergic receptors in the songbird and quail brain: a quantitative autoradiographic study

scientific article

Neural bases of song preferences in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 14, 1998

Neural correlates of singing behavior in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 5, 1998

Neural mechanisms for the coordination of duet singing in wrens

scientific article published in November 2011

Neuroanatomical specificity in the expression of the immediate early gene c-fos following expression of appetitive and consummatory male sexual behaviour in Japanese quail.

scientific article

Neuroanatomical specificity of sex differences in expression of aromatase mRNA in the quail brain

scientific article

Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Regulating Reproductive Cycles and Reproductive Behavior in Birds

Neuroendocrinology of song behavior and avian brain plasticity: multiple sites of action of sex steroid hormones.

scientific article

Neuroestrogens rapidly regulate sexual motivation but not performance

scientific article published on January 2013

New insights into the regulation and function of brain estrogen synthase (aromatase).

scientific article published in June 1998

Non-ovarian aromatization is required to activate female sexual motivation in testosterone-treated ovariectomized quail

scientific article published on 14 May 2016

Noradrenergic deficits alter processing of communication signals in female songbirds

scientific article published on 25 September 2008

Noradrenergic projections to the song control nucleus area X of the medial striatum in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).

scientific article published in June 2007

Organizing effects of sex steroids on brain aromatase activity in quail

scientific article

Peptidergic delineations of nucleus interface reveal a sex difference in volume

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Perineuronal nets and song learning-related neuroplasticity in the songbird brain

scholarly article

Perineuronal nets and vocal plasticity in songbirds: A proposed mechanism to explain the difference between closed-ended and open-ended learning.

scientific article

Perineuronal nets in HVC and plasticity in male canary song

scientific article

Peter R. Marler, 1928–2014

scientific article published in 2017

Phosphorylation processes mediate rapid changes of brain aromatase activity.

scientific article

Photoperiod-dependent and -independent regulation of melatonin receptors in the forebrain of songbirds

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Photoperiod-dependent regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone 1 messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the songbird brain

scientific article published on 07 May 2013

Photoperiodic and temporal influences on chemosensory induction of brain fos expression in female prairie voles

scientific article published in February 2003

Photoperiodic condition is associated with region-specific expression of GNRH1 mRNA in the preoptic area of the male starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Photoperiodic condition modulates the effects of testosterone on song control nuclei volumes in male European starlings

scientific article published in February 1997

Photoperiodic control of seasonality in birds.

scientific article

Photoperiodic control of singing behavior and reproductive physiology in male Fife fancy canaries

scientific article published in 2022

Photoperiodic differences in a forebrain nucleus involved in vocal plasticity: enkephalin immunoreactivity reveals volumetric variation in song nucleus lMAN but not NIf in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

scientific article (publication date: 15 September 2010)

Photoperiodic induced changes in reproductive state of border canaries (Serinus canaria) are associated with marked variation in hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone immunoreactivity and the volume of song control regions

scientific article

Photoperiodic response of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonad axis in male and female canaries, Serinus canaria

scientific article published in April 2003

Plasticity in the expression of the steroid receptor coactivator 1 in the Japanese quail brain: effect of sex, testosterone, stress and time of the day.

scientific article published on 2 May 2006

Pleiotropic Control by Testosterone of a Learned Vocal Behavior and Its Underlying Neuroplasticity(1,2,3)

scientific article

Preoptic aromatase modulates male sexual behavior: slow and fast mechanisms of action

scientific article published in November 2004

Presence of aromatase and estrogen receptor alpha in the inner ear of zebra finches.

scientific article published on 3 May 2009

Prior experience with photostimulation enhances photo-induced reproductive development in female European starlings: a possible basis for the age-related increase in avian reproductive performance

scientific article published on 19 May 2004

Rapid action on neuroplasticity precedes behavioral activation by testosterone

scientific article published on 20 March 2008

Rapid changes in brain aromatase activity in the female quail brain following expression of sexual behaviour

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Rapid changes in brain estrogen concentration during male sexual behavior are site and stimulus specific

scientific article published in 2021

Rapid changes in production and behavioral action of estrogens.

scientific article

Rapid control of brain aromatase activity by glutamatergic inputs

scientific article

Rapid control of male typical behaviors by brain-derived estrogens ⬇️

scientific article published on September 13, 2012

Rapid decreases in preoptic aromatase activity and brain monoamine concentrations after engaging in male sexual behavior

scientific article published on 02 June 2005

Rapid effects of aromatase inhibition on male reproductive behaviors in Japanese quail

scientific article

Rapid testosterone-induced growth of the medial preoptic nucleus in male canaries

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Recent experience modulates forebrain gene-expression in response to mate-choice cues in European starlings

scientific article published in December 2002

Relative salience of syllable structure and syllable order in zebra finch song

scientific article published on 15 May 2018

Reproductive state modulates testosterone-induced singing in adult female European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article

Reversing song behavior phenotype: Testosterone driven induction of singing and measures of song quality in adult male and female canaries (Serinus canaria).

scientific article

Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei

scientific article

Revising hypotheses does not indicate a flawed approach. Reply to Bolhuis and Macphail

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Seasonal and hormonal modulation of neurotransmitter systems in the song control circuit.

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Seasonal and individual variation in singing behavior correlates with α2-noradrenergic receptor density in brain regions implicated in song, sexual, and social behavior.

scientific article

Seasonal changes in courtship song and the medial preoptic area in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Seasonal changes in the densities of alpha(2) noradrenergic receptors are inversely related to changes in testosterone and the volumes of song control nuclei in male European starlings

scientific article published on February 2002

Seasonal changes in the neuroendocrine system: introduction to the special issue.

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

Seasonal changes of perineuronal nets and song learning in adult canaries (Serinus canaria)

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Seasonal plasticity in the song control system: multiple brain sites of steroid hormone action and the importance of variation in song behavior

scientific article

Seasonal variation in androgen-metabolizing enzymes in the diencephalon and telencephalon of the male European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article published in November 2001

Seasonal variation in brain GnRH in free-living breeding and photorefractory house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus).

scientific article published in February 1998

Sex differences and similarities in the neural circuit regulating song and other reproductive behaviors in songbirds

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Sex differences in brain aromatase activity: genomic and non-genomic controls

scientific article

Sex differences in hippocampal mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor mRNA expression in response to acute mate pair separation in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Sex differences in projections from preoptic area aromatase cells to the periaqueductal gray in Japanese quail

scientific article published in February 2007

Sex differences in seasonal brain plasticity and the neuroendocrine regulation of vocal behavior in songbirds

scientific article published in 2022

Sex differences in the brain: the not so inconvenient truth

scientific article (publication date: 15 February 2012)

Sex differences in the densities of alpha 2-adrenergic receptors in the song control system, but not the medial preoptic nucleus in zebra finches

scientific article published in May 2002

Sex differences in the distribution of the steroid receptor coactivator SRC-1 in the song control nuclei of male and female canaries

scientific article published in January 2003

Sex differences in the expression of sex steroid receptor mRNA in the quail brain.

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Sex differences in the response to environmental cues regulating seasonal reproduction in birds

scientific article

Sex steroid-induced neuroplasticity and behavioral activation in birds

scientific article

Sexual arousal, is it for mammals only? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 9, 2010

Sexual behavior activates the expression of the immediate early genes c-fos and Zenk (egr-1) in catecholaminergic neurons of male Japanese quail

scientific article

Sexual differentiation of brain and behavior in birds

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Sexual dimorphism in the volume of song control nuclei in European starlings: assessment by a Nissl stain and autoradiography for muscarinic cholinergic receptors.

scientific article published in August 1993

Sexually differentiated and neuroanatomically specific co-expression of aromatase neurons and GAD67 in the male and female quail brain

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Site-specific effects of anosmia and cloacal gland anesthesia on Fos expression induced in male quail brain by sexual behavior

scientific article

Site-specific effects of aromatase inhibition on the activation of male sexual behavior in male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

Social context affects testosterone-induced singing and the volume of song control nuclei in male canaries (Serinus canaria).

scientific article published in September 2006

Social suppression of song is associated with a reduction in volume of a song-control nucleus in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article

Song acquisition in photosensitive and photorefractory male European starlings

scientific article published in December 1990

Song activation by testosterone is associated with an increased catecholaminergic innervation of the song control system in female canaries

scientific article published in January 2003

Song predicts immunocompetence in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

scientific article

Sound sequences in birdsong: how much do birds really care?

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Species differences in the relative densities of D1- and D2-like dopamine receptor subtypes in the Japanese quail and rats: an in vitro quantitative receptor autoradiography study

scientific article

Species variation in the degree of sex differences in brain and behaviour related to birdsong: adaptations and constraints.

scientific article

Specific activation of estrogen receptor alpha and beta enhances male sexual behavior and neuroplasticity in male Japanese quail

scientific article

Sperm Competition after Sequential Mating in the Ringed Turtle-Dove

scientific article published in 1987

Steroid Modulation of Muscarinic Cholinergic and alpha2-Adrenergic Receptor Density in the Nucleus Intercollicularis of the Japanese Quail

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Steroid receptor coactivator 2 modulates steroid-dependent male sexual behavior and neuroplasticity in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica).

scientific article

Steroid receptor coactivator SRC-1 exhibits high expression in steroid-sensitive brain areas regulating reproductive behaviors in the quail brain

scientific article published in November 2002

Steroid sensitive sites in the avian brain: does the distribution of the estrogen receptor alpha and beta types provide insight into their function?

scientific article published in January 1999

Stimulatory effects on the reproductive axis in female songbirds by conspecific and heterospecific male song

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Strain differences in hearing in song canaries

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Studies of HVC Plasticity in Adult Canaries Reveal Social Effects and Sex Differences as Well as Limitations of Multiple Markers Available to Assess Adult Neurogenesis.

scientific article

Targeting steroid receptor coactivator-1 expression with locked nucleic acids antisense reveals different thresholds for the hormonal regulation of male sexual behavior in relation to aromatase activity and protein expression

scientific article published on 23 June 2006

Tempests and tales: challenges to the study of sex differences in the brain

scientific article

Testis-dependent and -independent effects of photoperiod on volumes of song control nuclei in American tree sparrows (Spizella arborea).

scientific article published in June 1997

Testosterone and avian life histories: the effect of experimentally elevated testosterone on corticosterone and body mass in dark-eyed juncos

scientific article published in December 1991

Testosterone induction of male-like vocalizations in female budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus).

scientific article published in June 1996

Testosterone induction of song in photosensitive and photorefractory male sparrows

scientific article

Testosterone or Estradiol When Implanted in the Medial Preoptic Nucleus Trigger Short Low-Amplitude Songs in Female Canaries

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Testosterone stimulates perineuronal nets development around parvalbumin cells in the adult canary brain in parallel with song crystallization

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Testosterone-induced neuroendocrine changes in the medial preoptic area precede song activation and plasticity in song control nuclei of female canaries.

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

The Avian Brain Nomenclature Forum: Terminology for a New Century in Comparative Neuroanatomy

scientific article published on January 2004

The Songbird Neurogenomics (SoNG) Initiative: community-based tools and strategies for study of brain gene function and evolution

scientific article

The activation of birdsong by testosterone: multiple sites of action and role of ascending catecholamine projections.

scientific article published on December 2003

The case of the missing mechanism: how does temperature influence seasonal timing in endotherms?

scientific article

The control of preoptic aromatase activity by afferent inputs in Japanese quail

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

The distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase in the canary brain: demonstration of a specific and sexually dimorphic catecholaminergic innervation of the telencephalic song control nulcei

scientific article published in May 2001

The dual action of estrogen hypothesis

scientific article

The effect of auditory distractors on song discrimination in male canaries (Serinus canaria).

scientific article published on 24 February 2005

The evolution of beauty: how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world—and us

Book review by Gerald Borgia and Gregory F. Ball

The microtubule-associated protein doublecortin is broadly expressed in the telencephalon of adult canaries

scientific article (publication date: May 2007)

The neural distribution of the avian homologue of oxytocin, mesotocin, in two songbird species, the zebra finch and the canary: A potential role in song perception and production

scientific article published in 2022

The neuroendocrine control of sex specific behavior in vertebrates: lessons from mammals and birds

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

The neuroendocrine integration of environmental information, the regulation and action of testosterone and the challenge hypothesis

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

The neuroendocrinology of reproductive behavior in Japanese quail.

scientific article

The origin of catecholaminergic inputs to the song control nucleus RA in canaries

scientific article published in April 2002

The ovary knows more than you think! New views on clock genes and the positive feedback control of luteinizing hormone

scientific article published in July 2007

The regulation of birdsong by testosterone: Multiple time-scales and multiple sites of action.

scientific article

The value of comparative approaches to our understanding of puberty as illustrated by investigations in birds and reptiles

scientific article

Thyroid hormone transport and photoperiodism: feeling one's oatps

scientific article published in March 2006

Time course of the estradiol-dependent induction of oxytocin receptor binding in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus of the rat.

scientific article published on September 1989

Topography in the preoptic region: differential regulation of appetitive and consummatory male sexual behaviors

scientific article

Transcript‐ and annotation‐guided genome assembly of the European starling

scientific article published in 2022

Treatment with androgens plus estrogens cannot reverse sex differences in song and the song control nuclei in adult canaries

scientific article published in 2022

Two histological markers reveal a similar photoperiodic difference in the volume of the high vocal center in male European starlings

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Validation of a new antiserum directed towards the synthetic c-terminus of the FOS protein in avian species: immunological, physiological and behavioral evidence

scientific article published in September 1999

Variation in enkephalin immunoreactivity in the social behavior network and song control system of male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) is dependent on breeding state and gonadal condition

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Variation in gonadotrophin-releasing hormone-1 gene expression in the preoptic area predicts transitions in seasonal reproductive state.

scientific article published on February 2012

Variation in the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone-1 and the song control system in the tropical breeding rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) is dependent on sex and reproductive state

scientific article

Whither the challenge hypothesis?

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

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