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To transduce a zebra finch: interrogating behavioral mechanisms in a model system for speech. [PDF]
, 2017 The ability to alter neuronal gene expression, either to affect levels of endogenous molecules or to express exogenous ones, is a powerful tool for linking brain and behavior. Scientists continue to finesse genetic manipulation in mice.
Heston, Jonathan B, White, Stephanie A
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A General Approach for the Analysis of Habitat Selection [PDF]
, 2007 Investigating habitat selection of animals aims at the detection of preferred and avoided habitat types as well as at the identification of covariates influencing the choice of certain habitat types.
Knauer, Felix +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2016 The early developmental trajectory is affected by genetic and environmental factors that co‐depend and interact often in a complex way. In order to distinguish their respective roles, we used canaries (Serinus canaria) of different genetic backgrounds ...
Raïssa A. deBoer +2 more
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Heliyon, 2019 Background: The immediate early gene ZENK (acronym zif268, Egr-1, NGFI-A, krox24) has been used extensively in songbird research (Mello et al., 1992; Jarvis and Nottebohm, 1997), as well as other research areas.
Erin N. Scully +2 more
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Songbirds can learn flexible contextual control over syllable sequencing
eLife, 2021 The flexible control of sequential behavior is a fundamental aspect of speech, enabling endless reordering of a limited set of learned vocal elements (syllables or words). Songbirds are phylogenetically distant from humans but share both the capacity for
Lena Veit +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Last year, we challenged the view that large‐bodied theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex resembled primates in cognition and behavior, a proposition made by Herculano‐Houzel in 2023. More recently, Jensen et al. have criticized our work on this topic, raising methodological and conceptual issues.
Kai R. Caspar +5 more
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Early Auditory Experience Modifies Neuronal Firing Properties in the Zebra Finch Auditory Cortex
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2020 Songbirds learn to sing much as humans learn to speak. In zebra finches, one of the premier songbird models, males learn to sing for later courtship through a multistep learning process during the developmental period.
Takashi Kudo +3 more
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Linking Snake Behavior to Nest Predation in a Midwestern Bird Community
, 2010 Nest predators can adversely affect the viability of songbird populations, and their impact is exacerbated in fragmented habitats. Despite substantial research on this predator-prey interaction, however, almost all of the focus has been on the birds ...
Brawn, Jeffrey D. +4 more
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Experimental inhibition of a key cellular antioxidant affects vocal communication [PDF]
, 2017 1. There is substantial interest of evolutionary ecologists in the proximate mechanisms that modulate vocal communication. In recent times, there has been growing interest in the role of oxidative stress as a mediator of avian song expression. 2.
Feare C.J. +7 more
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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