Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

Song-learning birds and humans share independently evolved similarities in brain pathways for vocal learning that are essential for song and speech and are not found in most other species. Comparisons of brain transcriptomes of song-learning birds and humans relative to vocal nonlearners identified...

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Published in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2014-12, Vol.346 (6215), p.1333-1333
Main Authors:	Pfenning, Andreas R., Hara, Erina, Whitney, Osceola, Rivas, Miriam V., Wang, Rui, Roulhac, Petra L., Howard, Jason T., Wirthlin, Morgan, Lovell, Peter V., Ganapathy, Ganeshkumar, Mouncastle, Jacquelyn, Moseley, M. Arthur, Thompson, J. Will, Soderblom, Erik J., Iriki, Atsushi, Kato, Masaki, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Zhang, Guojie, Bakken, Trygve, Bongaarts, Angie, Bernard, Amy, Lein, Ed, Mello, Claudio V., Hartemink, Alexander J., Jarvis, Erich D.
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Language:	English
Subjects:	Adult Algorithms Analogies Animal cognition Animals Biological evolution Birds Birds - genetics Birds - physiology Brain Brain - anatomy & histology Brain - physiology Brain Mapping convergent evolution Corpus Striatum - anatomy & histology Corpus Striatum - physiology Evolution, Molecular Finches - genetics Finches - physiology Gene expression Gene Expression Regulation Genes Genomics human physiology Human subjects Humans larynx Learning Male Mammals motor cortex Motor Cortex - anatomy & histology Motor Cortex - physiology Motors Neural Pathways Neurobiology RESEARCH ARTICLE SUMMARY Singing Songbirds Specialization Species Specificity Speech transcription (genetics) Transcription, Genetic Transcriptome vocalization Vocalization, Animal
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