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Comparative Cytogenetics between Two Important Songbird, Models: The Zebra Finch and the Canary. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Songbird species (order Passeriformes, suborder Oscines) are important models in various experimental fields spanning behavioural genomics to neurobiology.
Michelly da Silva Dos Santos +7 more
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THE GENETIC BASIS OF ZEBRA FINCH VOCALIZATIONS [PDF]
Evolution, 2009 Animal vocalizations play an important role in individual recognition, kin recognition, species recognition, and sexual selection. Despite much work in these fields done on birds virtually nothing is known about the heritability of vocal traits in birds.
Forstmeier, Wolfgang +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 In the present study, we carried out an examination of the amino acid usage in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) proteome. We found that tRNA abundance, base composition, hydrophobicity and aromaticity, protein second structure, cysteine residue (Cys)
Yousheng Rao +5 more
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Relative Water Economy Is a Useful Index of Aridity Tolerance for Australian Poephiline Finches
Birds, 2022 We evaluate if the iconic Australian Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) has a unique physiology or if its metabolic, thermal and hygric physiology are similar to other Australian poephiline finches, by comparing it with three other species, the arid ...
Philip C. Withers +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Since the introduction of West Nile virus (WNV) into North America in 1999 a number of passerine bird species have been found to play a role in the amplification of the virus.
Erik K Hofmeister +3 more
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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are undifferentiated gametes with heterogeneity, an evolutionarily conserved characteristic across various organisms. Although dynamic selection at the level of early germ cell populations is an important biological feature ...
Kyung Min Jung +4 more
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BMC Genomics, 2007 Background Passerines (perching birds) are widely studied across many biological disciplines including ecology, population biology, neurobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.
Birkhead Timothy R +2 more
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Genome-wide annotation and analysis of zebra finch microRNA repertoire reveal sex-biased expression
BMC Genomics, 2012 Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally in a wide range of biological processes. The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), an oscine songbird with characteristic learned vocal behavior ...
Luo Guan-Zheng +7 more
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Metabolic ageing in individual zebra finches [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2008 Oxidative stress is suggested as a contributor to the ageing process. Knowledge of the relationship between age and energy expenditure may contribute to our understanding of ageing patterns, due to the link between oxygen consumption and free radical production. However, studies on basal metabolic rate (BMR) and age have generally been cross-sectional,
Moe, Børge +3 more
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Evidence of the adaptive evolution of immune genes in chicken
BMC Research Notes, 2009 The basis for understanding the characteristics of gene functional categories in chicken has been enhanced by the ongoing sequencing of the zebra finch genome, the second bird species to be extensively sequenced.
Cormican Paul +4 more
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