Parallel FoxP1 and FoxP2 Expression in Songbird and Human Brain Predicts Functional Interaction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3152-3163

  Teramitsu, Ikuko ^a   Kudo, Lili C ^a   London, Sarah E ^a   Geschwind, Daniel H ^a,b   White, Stephanie A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forkhead; Language; Song; Speech; Vocal learning; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SONGBIRDS; THALAMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 1842610982     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5589-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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