Bi-directional sexual dimorphisms of the song control nucleus HVC in a songbird with unison song.

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Published in PLoS One on August 27, 2008

Authors

Manfred Gahr1, Reinhold Metzdorf, Dieter Schmidl, Wolfgang Wickler

Author Affiliations

1: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany. gahr@orn.mpg.de

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