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SUBMITTER: Gahr M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2518117 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gahr Manfred M Metzdorf Reinhold R Schmidl Dieter D Wickler Wolfgang W
PloS one 20080827 8
Sexually dimorphic anatomy of brain areas is thought to be causally linked to sex differences in behaviour and cognitive functions. The sex with the regional size advantage (male or female) differs between brain areas and species. Among adult songbirds, males have larger brain areas such as the HVC (proper name) and RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium) that control the production of learned songs. Forest weavers (Ploceus bicolor) mated pairs sing a unison duet in which male and female mates le ...[more]