VoICE: A semi-automated pipeline for standardizing vocal analysis across models

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Burkett, Zachary D ^a   Day, Nancy F ^a   Peñagarikano, Olga ^b,c   Geschwind, Daniel H ^b,c   White, Stephanie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CNTNAP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; AUTOMATION; C57BL MOUSE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEFICIENCY; FINCH; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FINCHES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84930628016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10237     Document Type: Article

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