De novo establishment of wild-type song culture in the zebra finch

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7246, 2009, Pages 564-568

  Fehér, Olga ^a   Wang, Haibin ^b   Saar, Sigal ^a   Mitra, Partha P ^b   Tchernichovski, Ofer ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; JUVENILE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FINCH; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FINCHES; INSTINCT; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 66449107953     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07994     Document Type: Article

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