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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Effect of kinship on the allopreening among juvenile Bengalese finches [PDF]
Animal Cells and Systems, 2016 ABSTRACTKin-directed affiliative behavior is widespread in social animals and kin selection theory suggests that such behavior increases fitness of the performer and is thus adaptive. Allopreening in birds is an altruistic behavior as it involves cleaning body parts that cannot be cleaned by self-preening.
Sang-Im Lee
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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 +2 more
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Auditory processing in the zebra finch midbrain: single unit responses and effect of rearing experience [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 In birds the auditory system plays a key role in providing the sensory input used to discriminate between conspecific and heterospecific vocal signals. In those species that are known to learn their vocalizations, for example, songbirds, it is generally ...
Priscilla Logerot +3 more
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Auditory and sexual preferences for a father’s song can co-emerge in female Bengalese finches
PLoS ONE, 2022 Birdsong is an important communication signal used in mate choice. In some songbird species, only the males produce songs. While the females of those species do not sing, they are sensitive to inter- and intra-species song variations, and the song ...
Tomoko G. Fujii, Kazuo Okanoya
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Parental influence on begging call structure in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): evidence of early vocal plasticity [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Begging calls are signals of need used by young birds to elicit care from adults. Different theoretical frameworks have been proposed to understand this parent–offspring communication. But relationships between parental response and begging intensity, or
Avelyne S. Villain +3 more
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