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Goller, Franz | Ontogeny of song lateralization in juvenile northern cardinals | In adult northern cardinals (Cardinatte cardinalis), the left and right sides of the syrinx cover different vocal registers such (hat fundamental frequencies below about 3.5 or 4 kHz are produced only by the left syrinx and higher frequencies are produced primarily by the light syrinx. | Motor control; FM sweep; Subsong | 1998 |
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Goller, Franz | Dynamical origin of spectrally rich vocalizations in birdsong | Birdsong is a model system for learned vocal behavior with remarkable parallels to human vocal development and sound production mechanisms. Upper vocal tract filtering plays an important role in human speech, and its importance has recently also been recognized in birdsong. However, the mechanisms... | Taeniopygia guttata; Labial oscillations; SNILC bifurcation | 2008-07 |
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Goller, Franz | Vibratory behavior of the sound generating structures of the bird syrinx | Recent endoscopic studies of the bird syrinx during phonation suggest that sound is generated by vibrating membrane folds or labia (Goller and Larsen, J. exp. Biol., 200, 2165-2176, 1997; Goller and Larsen, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 4,14787-14791, 1997) and not by a whistle mechanism (Nottebohm, J. ... | Vocalization; Vibration detector; Whistle mechanism | 1998 |
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Goller, Franz | Prosthetic Avian vocal organ controlled by a freely behaving bird based on a low dimensional model of the biomechanical periphery | Because of the parallels found with human language production and acquisition, birdsong is an ideal animal model to study general mechanisms underlying complex, learned motor behavior. The rich and diverse vocalizations of songbirds emerge as a result of the interaction between a pattern generator i... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Goller, Franz | Motor control of sound frequency in birdsong involves the interaction between air sac pressure and labial tension | Frequency modulation is a salient acoustic feature of birdsong. Its control is usually attributed to the activity of syringeal muscles, which affect the tension of the labia responsible for sound production. We use experimental and theoretical tools to test the hypothesis that for birds producing to... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Goller, Franz | Nonlinear model predicts diverse respiratory patterns of birdsong | A central aspect of the motor control of birdsong production is the capacity to generate diverse respiratory rhythms, which determine the coarse temporal pattern of song. The neural mechanisms that underlie this diversity of respiratory gestures and the resulting acoustic syllables are largely unkn... | Sound; Syllables; Song | 2006 |
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Goller, Franz | Experimental support for a model of birdsong production | In this work we present an experimental validation of a recently proposed model for the production of birdsongs. We have previously observed that driving the model with simple functions of time, which represent tensions in vocal muscles, produces a wide variety of sounds resembling birdsongs. In th... | Vocal; Muscles; Syrinx | 2003 |
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Goller, Franz | Physiologically driven avian vocal synthesizer | In this work, we build an electronic syrinx, i.e., a programmable electronic device capable of integrating biomechanical model equations for the avian vocal organ in order to synthesize song. This vocal prosthesis is controlled by the bird's neural instructions to respiratory and the syringeal mot... | | 2010-03 |
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Capecchi, Mario R. | Fundamental cellular processes do not require vertebrate-specific sequences within the TATA-binding protein. | The 180-amino acid core of the TATA-binding protein (TBPcore) is conserved from Archae bacteria to man. Vertebrate TBPs contain, in addition, a large and highly conserved N-terminal region that is not found in other phyla. We have generated a line of mice in which the tbp allele is replaced with a v... | Mice, Knockout; Cells, Cultured; Fibroblasts; Embryo | 2003-02-21 |
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Goller, Franz | Lateralization as a symmetry breaking process in birdsong | The singing by songbirds is a most convincing example in the animal kingdom of functional lateralization of the brain, a feature usually associated with human language. Lateralization is expressed as one or both of the bird's sound sources being active during the vocalization. Normal songs require ... | Lateralization; Syringeal muscles; Respiration; Gating | 2007-03 |
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Olivera, Baldomero M. | Identification of a novel pharmacophore for peptide toxins interacting with K+ channels | қM-conotoxin RIIIK blocks TSha1 K+ channels from trout with high affinity by interacting with the ion channel pore. As opposed to many other peptides targeting K+ channels, қM-RIIIK does not possess a functional dyad. In this study we combine thermodynamic mutant cycle analysis and docking calc... | Conotoxins; Peptide toxins; қM-conotoxin RIIIK; Pharmacophore | 2005 |
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Seger, Jon | Ideas in ecology | The word "ecology" means different things to different people. For example, during the last 25 years or so the word has been used to label attitudes, life-styles, consumer goods, political parties, and college courses. In the 1960s one university renamed its "Home Economics" course "Home Ecology."... | Behavioral ecology; Population ecology | 1986 |
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Seger, Jon | Models of sex ratio evolution | Our understanding of sex ratio evolution depends strongly on models that identify: (1) constraints on the production of male and female offspring, and (2) fitness consequences entailed by the production of different attainable brood sex ratios. Verbal and mathematical arguments by, among others, D... | Fitness; Species; Sex-allocation | 2002 |
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Beckerle, Mary C. | Molecular dissection of a LIM domain | LIM domains are novel sequence elements that are found in more than 60 gene products, many of which function as key regulators of developmental pathways. The LIM domain, characterized by the cysteine-rich consensus CX2CX16_23HX2CX2CX2CX16_21CX2-3(C/H/ D), is a specific metal-binding structure tha... | LIM domains; Metal-binding; Zyxin; Cysteine-rich proteins | 1997 |
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Sekercioglu, Cagan | The need to quantify ecosystem services provided by birds | What are birds worth-what is their actual dollar value to human society? To most of us in the ornithological community, birds are invaluable. But in these times we need more specific rationales to convince policy makers and business leaders to include bird conservation in land-use and development de... | | 2011-01-01 |
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Olivera, Baldomero M.; McIntosh, J. Michael; Gray, William Robert | γ-Carboxyglutamate in a neuroactive toxin | The venom of a fish-hunting cone snail (Conus geographus) contains a novel toxin, the "sleeper" peptide, which induces a sleep-like state in mice when injected intracerebrally. We demonstrate that this peptide contains 5 mol of γ-carboxyglutamate (Gla) in 17 amino acids. The amino acid sequence o... | Conus geographus; Venom; Conotoxins; gamma-Carboxyglutamate; Neurotoxins | 1984 |
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Bohs, Lynn A. | Phylogenetic relationships in Solanum (Solanaceae) based on ndhF sequences | A phylogenetic analysis was conducted using sequence data from the chloroplast gene ndhF. Sequences were obtained from 25 species of Solanaceae, including 18 species of Solanum representing five of the seven conventionally recognized subgenera. | Solanum; ndhF | 1997 |
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Capecchi, Mario R. | In vivo and in vitro tissue-specific expression of green fluorescent protein using the cre-lox system in mouse embryonic stem cells. | Embryonic stem cells (ES) are pluripotent and may therefore serve as a source for the generation of specific cell types required for future therapies based on cell replacement. The isolation of defined cell populations from a certain lineage or tissue is a prerequisite for the analysis of the potent... | Animals; Cell Differentiation; Cells, Cultured; Gene Transfer Techniques; Mice, Transgenic | 2005-10-23 |
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Beckerle, Mary C.; Clark, Kathleen A. | Conserved LIM protein that affects muscular adherens junction integrity and mechanosensory function in Caenorhabditis elegans | We describe here the molecular and functional characterization of the Caenorhabditis elegans unc-97 gene, whose gene product constitutes a novel component of muscular adherens junctions. UNC-97 and homologues from several other species define the PINCH family, a family of LIM proteins whose modula... | LIM domains; Caenorhabditis elegans; UNC-97; Adherens junction; Touch neuron; Muscle development | 1999 |
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Shapiro, Michael D. | Genetic architecture of skeletal convergence and sex determination in ninespine sticklebacks | The history of life offers plentiful examples of convergent evolution, the independent derivation of similar phenotypes in distinct lineages [1]. Convergent phenotypes among closely related lineages (frequently termed "parallel" evolution) are often assumed to result from changes in similar genes or... | Convergent evolution; Skeletal convergence; Pungitius pungitius; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Comparative genetics | 2009-07 |
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Ehleringer, James R. | Fuentes de aqua utilizadas por las plantas desérticas y su importancia en planes de manejo y restauración ecológica | El agua es el factor más importante que afecta a la productividad primaria y la estructura de la vegetación en ecosistemas áridos. Dado que las especies de plantas pueden diferir en sus capacidades de utilizar distintas fuentes de agua, el conocimiento de estos aspectos es fundamental para los ... | Fuentes de agua; Isótopos estables; 8-H; 5 l sO; Zonas áridas; Plantas desérticas; Relaciones hídricas; Restauración ecológica; Desierto de Atacama; Atacama Desert; Stable isotopes; Water sources; Arid regions; Ecological restoration; Water relations; Water supplies | 2000 |
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Adler, Frederick R. | Construction of multidimensional clustered patterns | Ecological processes often depend upon the patterning, as well as the absolute density, of resources. In this paper, we develop methods for describing pattern from the perspective of the organism encountering and exploiting the resources, and for reconstructing pattern from the description. | Algorithms; clustered resources; foraging | 1994 |
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Capecchi, Mario R. | Expression of a microinjected porcine class I major histocompatibility complex gene in transgenic mice. | A porcine class I major histocompatibility complex (SLA) gene has been introduced into the genome of a C57BL/10 mouse. This transgenic mouse expressed SLA antigen on its cell surfaces and transmitted the gene to offspring, in which the gene is also expressed. Skin grafts of such transgenic mice were... | Genetic Engineering; Graft Rejection; Mice, Inbred C57BL | 1985-05-03 |
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Cieri, Robert | New insight into the evolution of the vertebrate respiratory system and the discovery of unidirectional airflow in iguana lungs | The generally accepted framework for the evolution of a key feature of the avian respiratory system, unidirectional airflow, is that it is an adaptation for efficiency of gas exchange and expanded aerobic capacities, and therefore it has historically been viewed as important to the ability of birds ... | | 2014-11-17 |
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Clayton, Dale H. | Does avian malaria reduce fledging success: an experimental test of the selection hypothesis | Like many parasites, avian haematozoa are often found at lower infection intensities in older birds than young birds. One explanation, known as the "selection" hypothesis, is that infected young birds die before reaching adulthood, thus removing the highest infection intensities from the host popul... | | 2013-01-01 |