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Familiarity of an environment prevents song suppression in isolated zebra finches
Abstract Despite the wide use of zebra finches as an animal model to study vocal learning and production, little is known about impacts on their welfare caused by routine experimental manipulations such as changing their social context. Here we conduct a post-hoc analysis of singing rate, an indicator of positive welfare, to gain insights into stress caused by social isolation, a common experimental manipulation.
Reannotation of the zebra finch genome reveals undiscovered transcriptional complexity
Abstract The zebra finch has become a paradigmatic model system to mechanistically investigate vocal communication from genes to behavior. Here, we report 1) a comprehensive map of the polyadenylated fraction of the transcriptome of the male zebra finch telencephalon at two ages, during the song learning phase at 50 days and when fully adult at 2 years as well as 2) as an expanded and refined annotation of the zebra finch genome based on our transcriptome data.
Daily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird - Nature Communications
Abstract Vocal signals, including human speech and birdsong, are produced by complicated, precisely coordinated body movements, whose execution is fitness-determining in resource competition and mate choice. While the acquisition and maintenance of motor skills generally requires practice to develop and maintain both motor circuitry and muscle performance, it is unknown whether vocal muscles, like limb muscles, exhibit exercise-induced plasticity.
Peak performance singing requires daily vocal exercise in songbirds
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One-to-one innervation of vocal muscles allows precise control of birdsong
Highlights • Motor neurons in the zebra finch vocal motor pool innervate single muscle fibers • Zebra finch vocal muscles have the lowest measured isometric stress • Small motor unit size and low muscle stress provide sub-hertz pitch control resolution • High-resolution control is key to vocal space expansion and songbird radiation Summary The motor control resolution of any animal behavior is limited to the minimal force step available when activating muscles, which is set by the number and...
Increasing Muscle Speed Drives Changes in the Neuromuscular Transform of Motor Commands during Postnatal Development in Songbirds
Research Articles, Systems/Circuits Iris Adam and Coen P.H. Elemans Journal of Neuroscience 26 August 2020, 40 (35) 6722-6731; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0111-20.2020 Abstract Progressive changes in vocal behavior over the course of vocal imitation leaning are often attributed exclusively to developing neural circuits, but the effects of postnatal body changes remain unknown.
Vocal Motor Performance in Birdsong Requires Brain-Body Interaction
Research ArticleOpinion, Sensory and Motor Systems Iris Adam and Coen P. H. Elemans eNeuro 10 June 2019, 6 (3) ENEURO.0053-19.2019; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0053-19.2019 development motor control muscle training sensorimotor learning songbird Significance Statement Motor skill learning typically occurs in a period when the brain needs to navigate a body that is still growing and developing.
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