Publications of Manfred Gahr

Gahr, M.; Leitner, S.; Fusani, L.; Rybak, F.: What is the adaptive role of neurogenesis in adult birds? Progress in Brain Research 138, pp. 233 - 254 (2002)

Gahr, M.; Rybak, F.; Leitner, S.; Fusani, L.: Androgen and estrogen receptor expression in relation to developmental and adult plasticity in the vocal control system. The FASEB Journal 16, p. A728 - A728 (2002)

Gil, D.; Gahr, M.: The honesty of bird song: Multiple constrains for multiple traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17 (3), pp. 133 - 141 (2002)

Halle, F.; Gahr, M.; Pieneman, A. W.; Kreutzer, M.: Recovery of song preferences after excitotoxic HVC lesion in female canaries. Journal of Neurobiology 52 (1), pp. 1 - 13 (2002)

Fusani, L.; Gahr, M.; Hutchison, J. B.: Aromatase inhibition reduces specifically one display of the ring dove courtship behavior. General and Comparative Endocrinology 122 (1), pp. 23 - 30 (2001)

Fusani, L.; Hutchison, J. B.; Gahr, M.: Testosterone regulates the activity and expression of telencephalic aromatase in female canaries. Journal of Neurobiology 49 (1), pp. 1 - 8 (2001)

Gahr, M.: Distribution of sex steroid hormone receptors in the avian brain: Functional implications for neural sex differences and sexual behaviors. Microscopy Research and Technique 55 (1), pp. 1 - 11 (2001)

Leitner, S.; Voigt, C.; Gahr, M.: Seasonal changes in the song pattern of the non-domesticated island canary (Serinus canaria), a field study. Behaviour 138 (7), pp. 885 - 904 (2001)

Leitner, S.; Voigt, C.; Garcia-Segura, L. M.; Van't Hof, T. J.; Gahr, M.: Seasonal activation and inactivation of song motor memories in wild canaries is not reflected in neuroanatomical changes of forebrain song areas. Hormones and Behavior 40 (2), pp. 160 - 168 (2001)

Gahr, M.: The neural song control system of hummingbirds: A comparison with swifts, vocal learning (songbirds) and non-learning (sub-oscines) passerines, vocal learning (budgerigars) and non-learning (dove, owl, gull, quail, chicken) non-passerines. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 426 (2), pp. 182 - 196 (2000)

Lohmann, R.; Gahr, M.: Muscle-dependent and hormone-dependent differentiation of the vocal control premotor nucleus robustus archistriatalis and the motornucleus. Journal of Neurobiology 42, pp. 220 - 231 (2000)

del Negro, C.; Kreutzer, M.; Gahr, M.: Sexually-stimulating signals of the canary songs: Evidence for a female-specific auditory representation in the nucleus HVc during the breeding season. Behavioral Neuroscience 114, pp. 526 - 542 (2000)

Fusani, L.; Van't Hof, T. J.; Hutchison, J. B.; Gahr, M.: Seasonal expression of androgen receptors, estrogen receptors, and aromatase in the canary brain in relation to circulating androgens and estrogens. Journal of Neurobiology 43 (3), pp. 254 - 268 (2000)

Metzdorf, R.; Gahr, M.; Fusani, L.: Distribution of aromatase, estrogen receptor, and androgen receptor mRNA in the forebrain of songbirds and non-songbirds. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 407 (1), pp. 115 - 129 (1999)

Dittrich, F.; Feng, Y.; Metzdorf, R.; Gahr, M.: Estrogen-inducible, sex-specific expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA in a forebrain song control nucleus of the juvenile zebra finch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96 (14), pp. 8241 - 8246 (1999)

Gahr, M.; Metzdorf, R.: The sexually dimorphic expression of androgen receptors in the song nucleus hyperstriatalis ventrale pars caudale of the zebra finch develops independently of gonadal steroids. The Journal of Neuroscience 19, pp. 2628 - 2636 (1999)

Gehr, D. D.; Capsius, B.; Grabner, P.; Gahr, M.; Leppelsack, H. J.: Functional organisation of the field-L-complex of adult male zebra finches. NeuroReport 10, pp. 375 - 380 (1999)

Bergeron, J. M.; Gahr, M.; Horan, K.; Wibbels, T.; Crew, D.: Cloning and in situ hybridization analysis of estrogen receptor in the developing gonad of the red earded slider turtle, a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. Development Growth & Differentiation 40 (2), pp. 243 - 254 (1998)

Gahr, M.; Sonnenschein, E.; Wickler, W.: Sex difference in the size of the neural song control regions in a dueting songbird with similar song repertoire size of males and females. The Journal of Neuroscience 18 (3), pp. 1124 - 1131 (1998)

Gahr, M.; Wild, J. M.: Localization of androgen receptors mRNA-containing cells in avian respiratory-vocal nuclei: An in situ hybridization study. Journal of Neurobiology 33 (7), pp. 865 - 876 (1997)