Syringeal specialization of frequency control during song production in the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundSinging in songbirds is a complex, learned behavior which shares many parallels with human speech. The avian vocal organ (syrinx) has two potential sound sources, and each sound generator is under unilateral, ipsilateral neural control ...
Kristen R Secora +5 more
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The genomics of the domestication syndrome in a songbird model species [PDF]
Communications BiologyMany domesticated animals share a syndromic phenotype marked by a suite of traits that include more variable patterns of coloration, reduced stress, aggression, and altered risk-taking and exploratory behaviors relative to their wild counterparts ...
Madza Farias-Virgens +5 more
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Sexual differences in cell proliferation in the ventricular zone, cell migration and differentiation in the HVC of juvenile Bengalese finch. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Song control nuclei have distinct sexual differences and thus are an ideal model to address how brain areas are sexually differentiated. Through a combination of histological analysis and electrical lesions, we first identified the ventricle site for HVC
Qiong Chen +7 more
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Age-related changes in the Bengalese finch song motor program. [PDF]
Neurobiol Aging, 2012 It is well established that there are remarkable similarities between song learning in oscine birds and acquisition of speech in young children. Human speech shows marked changes with senescence, but few studies have evaluated how song changes with advanced age in songbirds.
Cooper BG +5 more
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Timing matters: age-dependent impacts of the social environment and host selection on the avian gut microbiota [PDF]
Microbiome, 2022 Background The establishment of the gut microbiota in early life is a critical process that influences the development and fitness of vertebrates. However, the relative influence of transmission from the early social environment and host selection ...
Öncü Maraci +7 more
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A reafferent model of song syntax generation in the Bengalese finch [PDF]
BMC Neurosci, 2010 The Bengalese finch produces a set of ordered sequences of syllables. After deafening this song syntax is disrupted, i.e. within days the sequence become randomized and unstable [1]. Interestingly, the normal song syntax is recovered when hearing is restored [2]. Studies have shown that the vocal motor control system of the Bengalese finch rely on real
Hanuschkin A, Diesmann M, Morrison A.
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A simple explanation for the evolution of complex song syntax in Bengalese finches [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2013 The songs of Bengalese finches ( Lonchura striata var. domestica ) have complex syntax and provide an opportunity to investigate how complex sequential behaviour emerges via the evolutionary process. In this study, we suggest that a simple mechanism, i.e.
Kenta Suzuki, Kazuo Okanoya
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Behavioural Factors Governing Song Complexity in Bengalese Finches [PDF]
International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2012 Bengalese finches are the domesticated strain of the wild white-rumped munias. Bengalese finches had been domesticated for over 250 years from the wild strain white-rumped munias and during this period the courtship song became phonologically and ...
Okanoya, Kazuo
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Draft genome assembly of the Bengalese finch, Lonchura striata domestica, a model for motor skill variability and learning [PDF]
GigaScience, 2018 Bradley M Colquitt, Michael S Brainard
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Collective Phenomena and Non-Finite State Computation in a Human Social System [PDF]
, 2013 We investigate the computational structure of a paradigmatic example of distributed social interaction: that of the open-source Wikipedia community.
DeDeo, Simon
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