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Brain Behav Evol (2015) 86 (2): 110–121.
Published Online: 08 October 2015
...Thomas W. Small; Eliot A. Brenowitz; Winfried Wojtenek; Ignacio T. Moore In mid- to high-latitude songbirds, seasonal reproduction is stimulated by increasing day length accompanied by elevated plasma sex steroid levels, increased singing, and growth of the song control nuclei (SCN). Plasticity...
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Brain Behav Evol (2015) 85 (2): 125–135.
Published Online: 07 May 2015
... analysis of a data set on the reproductively homogenous clade of marsupials, we provide the first quantitative comparison of two hypotheses based on energetic constraints (maternal investment and seasonality) with two hypotheses that posit behavioral selection on relative brain size (social complexity...
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Brain Behav Evol (2010) 75 (4): 271–281.
Published Online: 21 July 2010
...Erin L. O’Bryant; Walter Wilczynski We exposed groups of adult male green treefrogs, Hyla cinerea, to acoustic stimuli (natural chorus or random tones) for seven consecutive nights at three time points during their natural breeding season (May, July, and September) and assessed seasonal changes...
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Brain Behav Evol (2010) 75 (1): 71–84.
Published Online: 19 March 2010
...David Kabelik; Jenilee A. Morrison; James L. Goodson In most vertebrate species, the production of vasotocin (VT; non-mammals) and vasopressin (VP; mammals) in the medial bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTm) waxes and wanes with seasonal reproductive state; however, opportunistically breeding...
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Brain Behav Evol (2005) 65 (4): 268–277.
Published Online: 15 April 2005
...Cynthia Corbitt; Pierre Deviche In seasonally breeding adult male songbirds, the volumes of several song control regions (SCRs) change seasonally in parallel with plasma testosterone (T) levels and decrease following gonadectomy. Testosterone treatment to castrates prevents this decrease...