Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6796, 2000, Pages 628-632

  Jarvis, Erich D ^a   Ribeiro, Sidarta ^b   Da Silva, Maria Luisa ^c   Ventura, Dora ^c   Vielliard, Jacques ^d   Mello, Claudio V ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; LEARNING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; VISION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROSENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0034632857     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35020570     Document Type: Article

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