The Zebra finch, taeniopygia guttata: An avian model for investigating the neurobiological basis of vocal learning

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 2014, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1237-1242

  Mello, Claudio V ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCAL LEARNING; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; FINCH; GENETICS; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; PRIMATES; PSITTACIDAE; RODENTIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TROCHILIDAE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FINCHES; GENOMICS; LEARNING; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROBIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84923805671     PISSN: 19403402     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo084574     Document Type: Article

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