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

Human speech- and reading-related genes display partially overlapping expression patterns in the marmoset brain

(2014) Masaki Kato et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

The laryngeal motor cortex: its organization and connectivity

(2014) Kristina Simonyan   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Cell-type-based model explaining coexpression patterns of genes in the brain

(2014) P. Grange et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Core and region-enriched networks of behaviorally regulated genes and the singing genome

(2014) O. Whitney et al.   SCIENCE

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

(2014) G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

A role for descending auditory cortical projections in songbird vocal learning

(2014) Yael Mandelblat-Cerf et al.   eLife

High-coverage sequencing and annotated assemblies of the budgerigar genome

(2014) Ganeshkumar Ganapathy et al.   GigaScience

Translating Birdsong: Songbirds as a Model for Basic and Applied Medical Research

(2013) Michael S. Brainard et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Genomics analysis of potassium channel genes in songbirds reveals molecular specializations of brain circuits for the maintenance and production of learned vocalizations

(2013) Peter V Lovell et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mouse vocal communication system: Are ultrasounds learned or innate?

(2013) Gustavo Arriaga et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Role of Slit and Robo Proteins in the Development of Dopaminergic Neurons

(2013) María Eugenia Cornide-Petronio et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Molecular profiling of the developing avian telencephalon: Regional timing and brain subdivision continuities

(2013) Chun-Chun Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Global view of the functional molecular organization of the avian cerebrum: Mirror images and functional columns

(2013) Erich D. Jarvis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in echolocating mammals

(2013) Joe Parker et al.   NATURE

Adult pallium transcriptomes surprise in not reflecting predicted homologies across diverse chicken and mouse pallial sectors

(2013) T. G. Belgard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dopamine regulation of human speech and bird song: A critical review

(2012) Kristina Simonyan et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

(2012) Michael J. Hawrylycz et al.   NATURE

Transcriptional Architecture of the Primate Neocortex

(2012) Amy Bernard et al.   NEURON

Striatum specific protein, Rhes regulates AKT pathway

(2012) Sookhee Bang et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Convergent Differential Regulation of Parvalbumin in the Brains of Vocal Learners

(2012) Erina Hara et al.   PLoS One

Specialized Motor-Driven dusp1 Expression in the Song Systems of Multiple Lineages of Vocal Learning Birds

(2012) Haruhito Horita et al.   PLoS One

Of Mice, Birds, and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System Has Some Features Similar to Humans and Song-Learning Birds

(2012) Gustavo Arriaga et al.   PLoS One

A hierarchical model of the evolution of human brain specializations

(2012) H. C. Barrett   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Distinct Neurogenomic States in Basal Ganglia Subregions Relate Differently to Singing Behavior in Songbirds

(2012) Austin T. Hilliard et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A Comparison of Brain Gene Expression Levels in Domesticated and Wild Animals

(2012) Frank W. Albert et al.   PLoS Genetics

Radioactive in situ Hybridization for Detecting Diverse Gene Expression Patterns in Tissue

(2012) Chun-Chun Chen et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Comparative analysis of mineralocorticoid receptor expression among vocal learners (Bengalese finch and budgerigar) and non-vocal learners (quail and ring dove) has implications for the evolution of avian vocal learning

(2011) Eiji Matsunaga et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Functional MRI assessment of orofacial articulators: Neural correlates of lip, jaw, larynx, and tongue movements

(2011) Krystyna Grabski et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Dlx6 regulates molecular properties of the striatum and central nucleus of the amygdala

(2011) Bei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Laryngeal Motor Cortex and Control of Speech in Humans

(2011) Kristina Simonyan et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Evo-devo, deep homology and FoxP2: implications for the evolution of speech and language

(2011) C. Scharff et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

(2010) Aaron R. Quinlan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Molecular characterization of the song control nucleus HVC in Bengalese finch brain

(2010) Masaki Kato et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Prefrontal-Enriched SLIT1 Expression in Old World Monkey Cortex Established during the Postnatal Development

(2010) Tetsuya Sasaki et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Convergent sequence evolution between echolocating bats and dolphins

(2010) Yang Liu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The genome of a songbird

(2010) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech

(2010) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Broca's Region: Novel Organizational Principles and Multiple Receptor Mapping

(2010) Katrin Amunts et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The somatotopy of speech: Phonation and articulation in the human motor cortex

(2009) Steven Brown et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Genomics and the evolutionary origins of nervous system complexity

(2009) Todd H Oakley et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Dopamine receptors in a songbird brain

(2009) Lubica Kubikova et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Functional But Not Structural Networks of the Human Laryngeal Motor Cortex Show Left Hemispheric Lateralization during Syllable But Not Breathing Production

(2009) K. Simonyan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2

(2009) Genevieve Konopka et al.   NATURE

Evolution of the neocortex: a perspective from developmental biology

(2009) Pasko Rakic   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Functional and Evolutionary Insights into Human Brain Development through Global Transcriptome Analysis

(2009) Matthew B. Johnson et al.   NEURON

The forkhead transcription factors, Foxp1 and Foxp2, identify different subpopulations of projection neurons in the mouse cerebral cortex

(2009) T. Hisaoka et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Subdivisions of primary motor cortex based on cortico-motoneuronal cells

(2009) Jean-Alban Rathelot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of crowing development in the domestic Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

(2009) S. Deregnaucourt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Descending Pathways in Motor Control

(2008) Roger N. Lemon   Annual Review of Neuroscience

arrayQualityMetrics—a bioconductor package for quality assessment of microarray data

(2008) Audrey Kauffmann et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis

(2008) Peter Langfelder et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The Songbird Neurogenomics (SoNG) Initiative: community-based tools and strategies for study of brain gene function and evolution

(2008) Kirstin L Replogle et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Conservation and expression of IQ-domain-containing calpacitin gene products (neuromodulin/GAP-43, neurogranin/RC3) in the adult and developing oscine song control system

(2008) David F. Clayton et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

The Neural Control of Vocalization in Mammals: A Review

(2008) U. Jürgens   JOURNAL OF VOICE

Molecular Mapping of Movement-Associated Areas in the Avian Brain: A Motor Theory for Vocal Learning Origin

(2008) Gesa Feenders et al.   PLoS One

Birdsong “Transcriptomics”: Neurochemical Specializations of the Oscine Song System

(2008) Peter V. Lovell et al.   PLoS One

Automated eukaryotic gene structure annotation using EVidenceModeler and the Program to Assemble Spliced Alignments

(2008) Brian J Haas et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Convergence and parallelism reconsidered: what have we learned about the genetics of adaptation?

(2007) J ARENDT et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION