Motor Learning: The FoxP2 Puzzle Piece

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Teramitsu, Ikuko ^a   White, Stephanie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MICE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 42049085311     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.048     Document Type: Short Survey

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