Neural correlates of genetically determined and acquired color preferences in quail chicks.

doi:10.1016/0006-8993(92)90771-z

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Neural correlates of genetically determined and acquired color preferences in quail chicks.

Brain research - 28 Feb 1992

Kabai P, Kovach J, Vadasz C

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The uptake of tritiated 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) was examined in brains of artificially selected and unselected control quail, in relation to genetically and environmentally variable early approach preferences of a colored stimulus. The data indicated high labeling in the tectofugal and low labeling...

Topics

Animals
Autoradiography
Behavior, Animal
Brain
Color
Coturnix
Deoxyglucose
Functional Laterality
Genotype
Organ Specificity
Tritium

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