Differential androgen receptor expression and DNA methylation state in striatum song nucleus Area X between wild and domesticated songbird strains

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2600-2610

  Wada, Kazuhiro ^a   Hayase, Shin ^a   Imai, Raimu ^a   Mori, Chihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Masahiko ^a   Liu, Wan Chun ^b   Takahasi, Miki ^c,d   Okanoya, Kazuo ^c,d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bengalese finch; Domestication; Epigenetics; Inter syllable duration

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA X; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DOMESTIC FOWL; FINCH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; START CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; WILD ANIMAL;

EID: 84882648497     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12258     Document Type: Article

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