Song learning in wild and domesticated strains of white-rumped munia, lonchura striata, compared by cross-fostering procedures: Domestication increases song variability by decreasing strain-specific bias

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 396-405

  Takahasi, Miki ^a,b,c,d   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,c,d  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; COURTSHIP; DIVERGENCE; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; NATURAL SELECTION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; REARING; SONG; WILD POPULATION;

FRINGILLIDAE; LONCHURA STRIATA; LONCHURA STRIATA DOMESTICA;

EID: 77953158837     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01761.x     Document Type: Article

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