Selected References
Saldanha, C.J. and B.A. Schlinger. 1997. Estrogen synthesis and secretion in the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater). General and Comparative Endocrinology. 105:390-401.
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/citation/0016-6480/105/390

Schlinger, B.A. 1997. Sex-steroids and their actions on the bird song system. Journal of Neurobiology. 35: 619-631.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/45418/START

Schlinger, B.A. 1998. Sexual differentiation of avian brain and behavior: Current views on gonadal hormone-dependent and independent mechanisms. Annual Review of Physiology. 60:407-429.
http://physiol.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/60/1/407

Carlisle, H.J., Hales, T. G.and B.A. Schlinger. 1998. Characterization of Neuronal Zebra Finch GABAA Receptors. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 182: 531-538.
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00359/bibs/8182004/81820531.htm

Schlinger, B.A., C. Greco and A.H. Bass. 1999. Aromatase activity in hindbrain vocal control region: Divergence between "singing" and "sneaking" males. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B. 266:131-136.

Schultz, D. and B.A. Schlinger. 1999. Widespread accumulation of 3H-testosterone in the spinal cord of a wild bird with an elaborate courtship display. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 96: 10432-10436.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/96/18/10428

Saldanha, C.J., M.J. Tuerk, Y-H Kim, A.O. Fernandes, A.P. Arnold and B.A. Schlinger. 2000. The distribution and regulation of aromatase expression in the zebra finch revealed with a specific antibody. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 423: 619-630.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/72509488/START

Freking, F., T. Nazairians and B.A. Schlinger. The expression of the sex steroid synthesizing enzymes CYP11A1, 3ß-HSD and CYP17 in the gonads and adrenals of an adult and developing songbird. General and Comparative Endocrinology.
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/citation/0016-6480/119/140

Saldanha, C.J., J. D. Schultz, S.E. London and B.A. Schlinger. Telencephalic aromatase, but not a song system, in a sub-oscine passerine, the golden collared manakin (Manacus vitellinus). Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 2000. 56(1) 29-37
http://www.online.karger.com/library/karger/renderer/dataset.exe?jcode=BBE&action=render&rendertype=abstract&uid=BBE.bbe56029

Peterson, R.S., C.J. Saldanha and B.A. Schlinger. 2001. Rapid upregulation of aromatase mRNA and protein following neural injury in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 13: 317-323.

Tsutsui, K. and B.A. Schlinger. 2001. Steroidogenesis in the avian brain. In Avian Endocrinology, Eds. A. Dawson and C.M. Chaturvedi., pp.59-77. Narosa Publishing, New Delhi, India.

Schlinger, B.A., Soma, K., and Saldanha, C. 2001. Perspectives in Ornithology: Advances in avian behavioral endocrinology. Invited Review. The Auk. 118:283-289.
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document&issn=0004-8038&volume=118&issue=02&page=0283

Schlinger, B.A., K.K. Soma and S.E. London. 2001. Neurosteroids and brain sexual differentiation. Invited Article. Trends in Neuroscience. 24: 429-431.
http://reviews.bmn.com/browse/areas/record?uid=TINS.etd00816_01662236_v0024i08_00001855

Schlinger, B.A., Schultz, J.D. and F. Hertel. 2001. Neuromuscular and endocrine control of an avian courtship behavior. Hormones and Behavior 40: 276-280.

Schultz, J.D, F. Hertel, M. Bausch and B.A. Schlinger. 2001. Adaptations for rapid and forceful contraction in wing muscles of the male Golden-collared manakin: Sex and species comparisons. Journal of Comparative Physiology A.187:677-684.
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00359/contents/01/00239/paper/s00359-001-0239-9ch000.html

Schlinger, B.A. and E. Brenowitz. 2002. Neural and Hormonal Control of Birdsong. In Hormones, Brain and Behavior, D. Pfaff, Ed. Vol. 2, pp 799-839.