Vocal control area-related expression of neuropilin-1, plexin-A4, and the ligand semaphorin-3A has implications for the evolution of the avian vocal system

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-54

  Matsunaga, Eiji ^a   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neuropilin; Parrot; Plexin; Semaphorin; Songbird

Indexed keywords

NEUROPILIN 1; PLEXIN; PLEXIN A4; SEMAPHORIN 3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PARROT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUAIL; VOCAL CORD; VOICE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPILIN-1; PARROTS; SEMAPHORIN-3A; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; COTURNIX COTURNIX; LONCHURA STRIATA; LONCHURA STRIATA DOMESTICA; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; PASSERI; PHASIANIDAE; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 61349120201     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01080.x     Document Type: Article

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