Zebra finch
Gene duplication and fragmentation in the zebra finch major histocompatibility complex
... The zebra finch genome, representing the taxonomi- cally diverse Passerine clade (approximately 5,400 spe- cies), offers the opportunity to characterize MHC structure in an avian lineage highly divergent ...
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Vocal exchanges during pair formation and maintenance in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
... [69]; zebra finch vocal exchange mirrors this pattern. The zebra finch call- ing system is clearly lacking flexibility in its messages compared to that of humans; however, turn-taking patterns ...
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The calcified eggshell matrix proteome of a songbird, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
... was zebra finch, a songbird of the Estrididae family, the genome sequence of which was published in 2010 ...and zebra finch lineages were estimated to have separated 90–100 million years ago, ...
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Mitochondrial uncoupling as a regulator of life history trajectories in birds: an experimental study in the zebra finch
... Approximately 70% of the birds were still alive at the end of the experimental period, which precludes definitive conclusions about the impact of DNP on longevity before having data on the lifespan of the remaining ...
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Zebra finch males compensate in plumage ornaments at sexual maturation for a bad start in life
... male zebra finches of wild Australian ori- gin, which were about the F9 generation in the Bielefeld ...unrelated zebra finches were allowed to raise offspring under either high or low quality nutritional ...
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Low plasticity in digestive physiology constrains feeding ecology in diet specialist, zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
... the zebra finch feeding ecology that might be responsible for the low plasticity of its digestive physiology: lack of a diet switch during ontogeny and high specialization to a seed ...
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Contractile activity of the pectoralis in the zebra finch according to mode and velocity of flap bounding flight
... flying zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata, N=12), to provide a new test of a long-standing ‘fixed- gear’ hypothesis that flap-bounding birds use only intermittent non-flapping phases, instead of variation in ...
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D2 dopamine receptor activation induces female preference for male song in the monogamous zebra finch
... The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) provides an excellent avian system to understand the neural mechanisms of pair ...in zebra finches have identified that partner preference is dependent on many ...
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Variation in yolk precursor receptor mRNA expression is a key determinant of reproductive phenotype in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
... breeding zebra finch ovary, muscle and liver was used for PCR identification, using the QuantiFast SYBR green PCR kit (Qiagen) on a MiniOpticon real-time PCR system (BioRad, Mississauga, ON, ...
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Sex specific effects of prenatal testosterone on nestling plasma antioxidant capacity in the zebra finch
... male zebra finch chicks, which in turn negatively affected their antioxidant defences at the age of 10 ...adult zebra finch males (Alonso-Alvarez et ...
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Choreography of song, dance and beak movements in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
... dancing zebra finch’s head position and angle change frequently during the song, accurate and consistent measurements of beak angles would be difficult to acquire even with a kinematic ...
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The zebra finch neuropeptidome: prediction, detection and expression
... the zebra finch genome, identifying 70 putative ...the zebra finch or other avian species, although homologous prohormones exist in the chicken ...the zebra finch peptides ...
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Fitness consequences of polymorphic inversions in the zebra finch genome
... Australian zebra finch population has been increasing to a current ef- fective population size of ...In zebra finches, recombination is highly biased towards the telomeres with large “re- combination ...
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Reciprocal interactions between prostaglandin E2- and estradiol-dependent signaling pathways in the injured zebra finch brain
... We were not able to design primers specific for EP-1 because it is not represented in the zebra finch genome. Using RNA extracted from injured and control brain tis- sue, we found that EP-2 amplified, but ...
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Kinematics of flap bounding flight in the zebra finch over a wide range of speeds
... the zebra finch from using a wingtip-reversal upstroke could include neuromuscular control and the anatomy of the skeletal or muscular elements in the ...
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Systemic Amyloidosis and Testicular Interstitial Tumor in a Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata): a Case Report in Iran
... Systemic amyloidosis and testicular interstitial tumor are rare conditions in birds and this is the first report in Iran. A male zebra finch was presented because of white diarrhea, anorexia, loss of weight ...
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Singing with reduced air sac volume causes uniform decrease in airflow and sound amplitude in the zebra finch
... and zebra finch, calibrated airflow recordings confirm that minibreaths replenish the air volume that was expelled during the phonatory expirations (Hartley and Suthers, 1989; Goller and Daley, ...
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The energetic cost of variations in wing span and wing asymmetry in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata
... Flight energy costs were calculated using the protocol described by Hambly et al. (2002). In brief, each flight was not continuous as the birds rested intermittently on perches at either end of the flight corridor. The ...
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Nestling diet, secondary sexual traits and fitness in the zebra finch
... male zebra ¢nches,Taeniopygia ...male zebra ¢nches reared on a seed-only diet were, as adults, virtually indistinguishable from those reared on a supple- mented diet, despite having reduced growth and ...
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What comes first, the zebra finch or the egg: temperature dependent reproductive, physiological and behavioural plasticity in egg laying zebra finches
... in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata by exposing laying females to low ambient temperatures, (2) determine the effects of exposure to low ambient temperature on maternal body condition and reproductive output ...
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