Defining the multidimensional phenotype: New opportunities to integrate the behavioral ecology and behavioral neuroscience of vocal learning

Call production induces motor-driven ZENK response in the song control system of black-capped chickadees

(2020) Shannon K. Mischler et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Vocal learning: Beyond the continuum

(2020) Pedro Tiago Martins et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Bulk tissue cell type deconvolution with multi-subject single-cell expression reference

(2019) Xuran Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Female Social Feedback Reveals Non-imitative Mechanisms of Vocal Learning in Zebra Finches

(2019) Samantha Carouso-Peck et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Differential Song Deficits after Lentivirus-Mediated Knockdown of FoxP1, FoxP2, or FoxP4 in Area X of Juvenile Zebra Finches

(2019) Philipp Norton et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Modular Approach to Vocal Learning: Disentangling the Diversity of a Complex Behavioral Trait

(2019) Morgan Wirthlin et al.   NEURON

Evolution of vocal learning and spoken language

(2019) Erich D. Jarvis   SCIENCE

Song and aggressive signaling in Bachman's Sparrow

(2018) Sabah Ali et al.   AUK

Wild Birds Learn Songs from Experimental Vocal Tutors

(2018) Daniel J. Mennill et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Song evolution, speciation, and vocal learning in passerine birds

(2017) Nicholas A. Mason et al.   EVOLUTION

The sensitive period for auditory-vocal learning in the zebra finch: Consequences of limited-model availability and multiple-tutor paradigms on song imitation

(2017) Sharon M.H. Gobes et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Social calls provide novel insights into the evolution of vocal learning

(2016) Kendra B. Sewall et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mechanisms underlying the social enhancement of vocal learning in songbirds

(2016) Yining Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mind the gap: Neural coding of species identity in birdsong prosody

(2016) M. Araki et al.   SCIENCE

Neural FoxP2 and FoxP1 expression in the budgerigar, an avian species with adult vocal learning

(2015) Erina Hara et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Does vocal learning accelerate acoustic diversification? Evolution of contact calls in Neotropical parrots

(2015) A. Medina-García et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Behavior-Linked FoxP2 Regulation Enables Zebra Finch Vocal Learning

(2015) J. B. Heston et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Birdsong memory and the brain: In search of the template

(2015) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication

(2015) M. Chakraborty et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Core and Shell Song Systems Unique to the Parrot Brain

(2015) Mukta Chakraborty et al.   PLoS One

Complexity and behavioral ecology

(2014) J. W. Bradbury et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Molecular Phylogenetics and the Diversification of Hummingbirds

(2014) Jimmy A. McGuire et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of vocal learning

(2014) Stephen Nowicki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Cetacean vocal learning and communication

(2014) Vincent M Janik   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

DifferentialFoxP2andFoxP1expression in a vocal learning nucleus of the developing budgerigar

(2014) Osceola Whitney et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds

(2014) Kevin J. Burns et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2014) A. R. Pfenning et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) O. Whitney et al.   SCIENCE

BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Horizontal transmission of the father's song in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

(2013) S. Deregnaucourt et al.   Biology Letters

Diminished FoxP2 Levels Affect Dopaminergic Modulation of Corticostriatal Signaling Important to Song Variability

(2013) Malavika Murugan et al.   NEURON

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Rethinking birdsong evolution: meta-analysis of the relationship between song complexity and reproductive success

(2011) Masayo Soma et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

FITTING MODELS OF CONTINUOUS TRAIT EVOLUTION TO INCOMPLETELY SAMPLED COMPARATIVE DATA USING APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION

(2011) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

adephylo: new tools for investigating the phylogenetic signal in biological traits

(2010) Thibaut Jombart et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Former Experience Can Modify Social Selectivity during Song Learning in the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)

(2010) Dietmar Todt et al.   ETHOLOGY

The Role of Song Phonology and Syntax in Vocal Learning Preferences in the Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia

(2010) Peter Marler et al.   ETHOLOGY

Are there species-universal categories in bird song phonology and syntax? A comparative study of chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs), zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata), and swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana).

(2010) R. F. Lachlan et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Phylogeny and evolution of the Meliphagoidea, the largest radiation of Australasian songbirds

(2010) Janet L. Gardner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Song Practice Promotes Acute Vocal Variability at a Key Stage of Sensorimotor Learning

(2010) Julie E. Miller et al.   PLoS One

Limited adult vocal learning maintains call dialects but permits pair-distinctive calls in red crossbills

(2009) Kendra B. Sewall   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

THE GENETIC BASIS OF ZEBRA FINCH VOCALIZATIONS

(2009) Wolfgang Forstmeier et al.   EVOLUTION

Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication

(2009) Jonathan F Prather et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Female mate choice and songbird song repertoires

(2008) Bruce E. Byers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR