ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2000
Generating sexually differentiated vocal patterns: laryngeal nerve and EMG recordings from vocalizing male and female african clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis).
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- Evolution of vocal patterns: tuning hindbrain circuits during species divergence.The Journal of experimental biology · 2017Article
- Rhythm generation, coordination, and initiation in the vocal pathways of male African clawed frogs.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- Probing forebrain to hindbrain circuit functions in Xenopus.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2017Review
- Ultrasonic vocalization changes and FOXP2 expression after experimental stroke.Behavioural brain research · 2015Article
- Harnessing vocal patterns for social communication.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2014Review
- Central pattern generator for vocalization: is there a vertebrate morphotype?Current opinion in neurobiology · 2014Review
- The Xenopus amygdala mediates socially appropriate vocal communication signals.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013Article
- Distinct neural and neuromuscular strategies underlie independent evolution of simplified advertisement calls.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2013Article
- Stereotypic laryngeal and respiratory motor patterns generate different call types in rat ultrasound vocalization.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological genetics and physiology · 2013Article
- Shared developmental and evolutionary origins for neural basis of vocal-acoustic and pectoral-gestural signaling.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012Review
- Innovations in motoneuron synchrony drive rapid temporal modulations in vertebrate acoustic signaling.Journal of neurophysiology · 2012Article
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- A neuroendocrine basis for the hierarchical control of frog courtship vocalizations.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2011Review
- Vocal pathway degradation in gonadectomized Xenopus laevis adults.Journal of neurophysiology · 2011Article
- Neurobiology of vocal communication: mechanisms for sensorimotor integration and vocal patterning.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2010Review
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Abstract
Male and female African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) produce sexually dimorphic vocalizations; for males these include advertisement, amplectant, and growling calls, whereas female calls include ticking. Previous studies have shown that the vocal organ, the larynx, of the sexes differs in physiological properties that parallel vocal differences. However, it was not clear whether these characteristics are sufficient to explain sex differences in vocal behavior. To examine the contribution of the CNS to generating vocal patterns, we developed a preparation in which both laryngeal nerve activity and electromyograms can be recorded from awake, vocalizing frogs. Recordings reveal that the CNS of the two sexes produces patterned activity that closely matches each vocalization whereas the larynx faithfully translates nerve activity into sound. Thus, the CNS is the source of sexually differentiated vocalizations in Xenopus laevis. Furthermore, detailed analyses of compound action potentials recorded from the nerve lead us to hypothesize that neuronal activity underlying different male call types is distinct; some calls are likely to be generated by synchronous firing of motoneuron populations of either constant size or progressively larger sizes, whereas others are generated by asynchronous activity of motoneurons, a pattern shared with vocal production in females. We suggest that these distinct neuronal activity patterns in males may be subserved by two populations of motor units in males that can be distinguished by the strength of the neuromuscular synapse.
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