Emergence of sex-specific transcriptomes in a sexually dimorphic brain nucleus

Estrogen and sex-dependent loss of the vocal learning system in female zebra finches

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DNA Methylation Regulates Transcription Factor-Specific Neurodevelopmental but Not Sexually Dimorphic Gene Expression Dynamics in Zebra Finch Telencephalon

(2021) Jolien Diddens et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Vocal production learning in mammals revisited

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The Gene Expression Profile of the Song Control Nucleus HVC Shows Sex Specificity, Hormone Responsiveness, and Species Specificity Among Songbirds

(2021) Meng-Ching Ko et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

ZEBrA: Zebra finch Expression Brain Atlas—A resource for comparative molecular neuroanatomy and brain evolution studies

(2020) Peter V. Lovell et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Cysteine Cathepsins and their Extracellular Roles: Shaping the Microenvironment

(2019) Eva Vidak et al.   Cells

Acute social isolation alters neurogenomic state in songbird forebrain

(2019) Julia M. George et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring the molecular basis of neuronal excitability in a vocal learner

(2019) Samantha R. Friedrich et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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(2019) Erich D. Jarvis   SCIENCE

Female zebra finches do not sing yet share neural pathways necessary for singing in males

(2018) Derrick W. Shaughnessy et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Neural Stem Cells Behave as a Functional Niche for the Maturation of Newborn Neurons through the Secretion of PTN

(2018) Changyong Tang et al.   NEURON

Tight coupling of astrocyte energy metabolism to synaptic activity revealed by genetically encoded FRET nanosensors in hippocampal tissue

(2017) Iván Ruminot et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Surprising origins of sex differences in the brain

(2015) Margaret M. McCarthy et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Sex and age differences in brain-derived neurotrophic factor and vimentin in the zebra finch song system: Relationships to newly generated cells

(2015) Yu Ping Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Audition-Independent Vocal Crystallization Associated with Intrinsic Developmental Gene Expression Dynamics

(2015) C. Mori et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Pleiotrophin as a central nervous system neuromodulator, evidences from the hippocampus

(2015) Celia González-Castillo et al.   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Apamin Boosting of Synaptic Potentials in CaV2.3 R-Type Ca2+ Channel Null Mice

(2015) Kang Wang et al.   PLoS One

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(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative genomics reveals molecular features unique to the songbird lineage

(2014) Morgan Wirthlin et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Convergent differential regulation of SLIT-ROBO axon guidance genes in the brains of vocal learners

(2014) Rui Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

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

(2014) O. Whitney et al.   SCIENCE

Functional genomic analysis and neuroanatomical localization of miR-2954, a song-responsive sex-linked microRNA in the zebra finch

(2014) Ya-Chi Lin et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

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(2012) Alexander Dobin et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

clusterProfiler: an R Package for Comparing Biological Themes Among Gene Clusters

(2012) Guangchuang Yu et al.   OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY

Sex differences in microRNA regulation of gene expression: no smoke, just miRs

(2012) Christopher P Morgan et al.   Biology of Sex Differences

Cysteine Cathepsins in the secretory vesicle produce active peptides: Cathepsin L generates peptide neurotransmitters and cathepsin B produces beta-amyloid of Alzheimer's disease

(2011) Vivian Hook et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

FIMO: scanning for occurrences of a given motif

(2011) Charles E. Grant et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Song exposure regulates known and novel microRNAs in the zebra finch auditory forebrain

(2011) Preethi H Gunaratne et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Developmental Changes in the Sexually Dimorphic Expression of Secretory Carrier Membrane Protein 1 and Its Co-Localisation with Androgen Receptor Protein in the Zebra Finch Song System

(2011) Y. P. Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Changes in the neural control of a complex motor sequence during learning

(2011) Bence P. Ölveczky et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Sex bias and dosage compensation in the zebra finch versus chicken genomes: General and specialized patterns among birds

(2010) Y. Itoh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Accelerated Evolution of PAK3- and PIM1-like Kinase Gene Families in the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia guttata

(2010) L. Kong et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Unique biological function of cathepsin L in secretory vesicles for biosynthesis of neuropeptides

(2010) Lydiane Funkelstein et al.   NEUROPEPTIDES

Sexual differentiation of the zebra finch song system: potential roles for sex chromosome genes

(2009) Michelle L Tomaszycki et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

The organizational–activational hypothesis as the foundation for a unified theory of sexual differentiation of all mammalian tissues

(2009) Arthur P. Arnold   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

JASPAR 2010: the greatly expanded open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

(2009) Elodie Portales-Casamar et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Discrete molecular states in the brain accompany changing responses to a vocal signal

(2009) S. Dong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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