Genetic components of vocal learning

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 325-347

  Scharff, Constance ^a   White, Stephanie A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Budgerigar; Hummingbird; Parrot; Seasonal; Transcription factor; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN FOXP1; PROTEIN FOXP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL GENETICS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FOWL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SONGBIRD; SOUND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; PASSERI; PSITTACIDAE; REPTILIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 3242668718     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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