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- noun The study of animal
behavior and its underlying control by thenervous system .
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I then got the chance to do a PhD at the University of Connecticut (also in developmental neurobiology) after which I went to the University of Maryland to do a post-doc in neuroethology (barn owls sound localisation).
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Coturnix none@example.com 2010
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Ghazanfar AA, Hauser MD (1999) The neuroethology of primate vocal communication: substrates for the evolution of speech.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lisette M. C. Leliveld et al. 2010
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This work, the scientists maintain, now provides a unified experimental framework for researchers studying topics as diverse as cultural evolution, neuroethology (biology of song development) and quantitative genetics.
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This work, the scientists maintain, now provides a unified experimental framework for researchers studying topics as diverse as cultural evolution, neuroethology (biology of song development) and quantitative genetics.
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A background in animal acoustic communication, neuroethology, psychoacoustics, electrophysiology or auditory neurophysiology is preferred, and the candidate should have demonstrated competence in conducting experiments in one or more of these disciplines.
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Crustaceans have frequently been used to study the neuroethology of both agonistic behavior and circadian rhythms, but whether their highly stereotyped and quantifiable agonistic activity is controlled by circadian pacemakers has, so far, not been investigated.
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