Seasonal changes in patterns of gene expression in avian song control brain regions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Thompson, Christopher K ^a   Meitzen, John ^b   Replogle, Kirstin ^c   Drnevich, Jenny ^d   Lent, Karin L ^e   Wissman, Anne Marie ^f   Farin, Federico M ^e   Bammler, Theo K ^e   Beyer, Richard P ^e   Clayton, David F ^c   Perkel, David J ^e   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^e  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROBUST NUCLEUS OF ARCOPALLIUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; TELENCEPHALON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BREEDING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SPARROWS; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84859984285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035119     Document Type: Article

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