FoxP2 Expression in Avian Vocal Learners and Non-Learners

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3164-3175

  Haesler, Sebastian ^a   Wada, Kazuhiro ^b   Nshdejan, A ^a   Morrisey, Edward E ^d   Lints, Thierry ^c   Jarvis, Eric D ^b   Scharff, Constance ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hummingbird; Language; Parrot; Ring dove; Songbird; Transcription factor; Winged helix forkhead box

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR;

ALLIGATOR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANARY; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOVE; FOREBRAIN; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARROT; PLASTICITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SONGBIRD; SPEECH; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CUES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 1842454166     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4369-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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