Motor pathway convergence predicts syllable repertoire size in oscine birds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 39, 2011, Pages 16440-16445

  Moore, Jordan M ^a   Székely, Tamás ^b   Büki, József ^c   DeVoogd, Timothy J ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c Hungarian Ornithological Institute   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Brain evolution; HVC; Neocorticalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; PASSERI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053638457     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102077108     Document Type: Article

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