Recent experiments in divergent fields of birdsong have revealed that vocal performance is
important for reproductive success and under active control by distinct neural circuits. Vocal …

New neurons are added throughout the forebrain of adult birds. The song-control system is a
model to investigate the addition of new long-projection neurons to a cortical circuit that …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Steroid sex hormones induce dramatic seasonal changes in reproductive related behaviors
and their underlying neural substrates in seasonally breeding vertebrates. For example, in …

Domestication is the process by which wild organisms become adapted for human use.
Many phenotypic changes are associated with animal domestication, including decreases in …

Singing of songbirds is sensitive to testosterone and its androgenic and estrogenic
metabolites in a species-specific way. The hormonal effects on song pattern are likely …

Steroid sex hormones drive changes in the nervous system and behavior in many animal
taxa, but integrating the former with the latter remains challenging. One useful model system …

Song in oscine birds is a learned behavior that plays important roles in breeding.
Pronounced seasonal differences in song behavior and in the morphology and physiology …

Historically, most studies of vertebrate central pattern generators (CPGs) have focused on
mechanisms for locomotion and respiration. Here, we highlight new results for ectothermic …

In adult songbirds, new neurons are born in large numbers in the proliferative ventricular
zone in the telencephalon and migrate to the adjacent song control region HVC (acronym …