Search Results - "Jarvis, Erich D"
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Evolution of vocal learning and spoken language
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (04-10-2019)“…Although language, and therefore spoken language or speech, is often considered unique to humans, the past several decades have seen a surge in nonhuman animal…”
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Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-12-2015)“…Understanding the mechanisms of evolution of brain pathways for complex behaviours is still in its infancy. Making further advances requires a deeper…”
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The Origin and Diversification of Birds
Published in Current biology (05-10-2015)“…Birds are one of the most recognizable and diverse groups of modern vertebrates. Over the past two decades, a wealth of new fossil discoveries and phylogenetic…”
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Of mice, birds, and men: the mouse ultrasonic song system has some features similar to humans and song-learning birds
Published in PloS one (10-10-2012)“…Humans and song-learning birds communicate acoustically using learned vocalizations. The characteristic features of this social communication behavior include…”
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Mouse vocal communication system: Are ultrasounds learned or innate?
Published in Brain and language (01-01-2013)“…Top panel shows mouse song system connectivity, highlighting the presence of a direct projection from M1 cortex to the vocal motor neurons of nucleus ambiguous…”
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Hybrid error correction and de novo assembly of single-molecule sequencing reads
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-07-2012)“…Single-molecule sequencing technologies can produce multikilobase-long reads, which are more useful than short reads for assembling genomes and transcriptomes,…”
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Universal nomenclature for oxytocin–vasotocin ligand and receptor families
Published in Nature (London) (29-04-2021)“…Oxytocin (OXT; hereafter OT) and arginine vasopressin or vasotocin (AVP or VT; hereafter VT) are neurotransmitter ligands that function through specific…”
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Progressive Cactus is a multiple-genome aligner for the thousand-genome era
Published in Nature (London) (12-11-2020)“…New genome assemblies have been arriving at a rapidly increasing pace, thanks to decreases in sequencing costs and improvements in third-generation sequencing…”
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Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-04-2018)“…Increasing our understanding of Earth’s biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its resources are among the most crucial scientific and social challenges of…”
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Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (12-12-2014)“…Sex-specific chromosomes, like the W of most female birds and the Y of male mammals, usually have lost most genes owing to a lack of recombination. We analyze…”
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The Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity
Published in Nature (London) (21-04-2022)“…The human reference genome is the most widely used resource in human genetics and is due for a major update. Its current structure is a linear composite of…”
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Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations
Published in Nature (London) (23-07-2020)“…Bats possess extraordinary adaptations, including flight, echolocation, extreme longevity and unique immunity. High-quality genomes are crucial for…”
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Balanced imitation sustains song culture in zebra finches
Published in Nature communications (07-05-2021)“…Songbirds acquire songs by imitation, as humans do speech. Although imitation should drive convergence within a group and divergence through drift between…”
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A spatially resolved brain region- and cell type-specific isoform atlas of the postnatal mouse brain
Published in Nature communications (19-01-2021)“…Splicing varies across brain regions, but the single-cell resolution of regional variation is unclear. We present a single-cell investigation of differential…”
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Platypus and echidna genomes reveal mammalian biology and evolution
Published in Nature (London) (29-04-2021)“…Egg-laying mammals (monotremes) are the only extant mammalian outgroup to therians (marsupial and eutherian animals) and provide key insights into mammalian…”
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Learned Birdsong and the Neurobiology of Human Language
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (01-06-2004)“…: Vocal learning, the substrate for human language, is a rare trait found to date in only three distantly related groups of mammals (humans, bats, and…”
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A hypothesis on a role of oxytocin in the social mechanisms of speech and vocal learning
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (30-08-2017)“…Language acquisition in humans and song learning in songbirds naturally happen as a social learning experience, providing an excellent opportunity to reveal…”
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Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (12-12-2014)“…Song-learning birds and humans share independently evolved similarities in brain pathways for vocal learning that are essential for song and speech and are not…”
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Complete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications
Published in Genome Biology (29-04-2021)“…Modern sequencing technologies should make the assembly of the relatively small mitochondrial genomes an easy undertaking. However, few tools exist that…”
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As above, so below: Whole transcriptome profiling demonstrates strong molecular similarities between avian dorsal and ventral pallial subdivisions
Published in Journal of comparative neurology (1911) (01-08-2021)“…Over the last two decades, beginning with the Avian Brain Nomenclature Forum in 2000, major revisions have been made to our understanding of the organization…”
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