No small feat: microRNA responses during vocal communication in songbirds

Simply hearing the song produced by another bird of the same species triggers the regulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) in high-order auditory parts of the zebra finch brain. Some of the identified miRNAs appear to be unique to birds, possibly to songbirds. These findings, reported in BMC Genomics, highl...

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Autores principales: Mello, Claudio V, Lovell, Peter V
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21627855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-35
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Sumario:Simply hearing the song produced by another bird of the same species triggers the regulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) in high-order auditory parts of the zebra finch brain. Some of the identified miRNAs appear to be unique to birds, possibly to songbirds. These findings, reported in BMC Genomics, highlight the complexities of gene regulation associated with vocal communication and point to possible key regulators of song-triggered gene networks. See research article:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/277

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