Young and intense: FoxP2 immunoreactivity in Area X varies with age, song stereotypy, and singing in male zebra finches

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2013, 2013, Pages

  Thompson, Christopher K ^a   Schwabe, Fabian ^a   Schoof, Alexander ^a   Mendoza, Ezequiel ^a   Gampe, Jutta ^b   Rochefort, Christelle ^c   Scharff, Constance ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Apraxia; Basal ganglia; Bayesian statistics; DVD; FOXP2; Language; Song system; Striatum

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; FINCH; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SINGING; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84873712764     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00024     Document Type: Article

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