FoxP2 in song-learning birds and vocal-learning mammals

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 212-216

  Webb, D M ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BAT; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DOLPHIN; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LEARNING; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGING; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SONGBIRDS; SPEECH;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 15944401402     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esi025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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