ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2015
Neurogenesis in the adult avian song-control system.
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- Parenchymal precursor cells act in concert with canonical neural progenitors to facilitate neural circuit recovery following neuronal loss.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Social Behavior and Neurogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Photoperiod, but not testosterone, increases basal metabolic rate in house sparrows.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Wild Bird Reproduction: Neuroendocrinology, Conservation Biology, and Environmental Threats.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Adult Striatal Neurogenesis-A Comparative Approach Between Pigeons, Mice, Macaques, and Human.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Vernal growth of vocal control nucleus Area X, but not HVC, precedes gonadal recrudescence in wild black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus).Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Seasonal patterns of neurogenesis in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) are region- and sex-specific.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- A daily rhythm of cell proliferation in a songbird brain.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fear of Predators Suppresses Neurogenesis in the Brains of Wild Songbirds.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- The quantitative anatomy of the hippocampal formation in homing pigeons and other pigeon breeds: implications for spatial cognition.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- Adult neurogenesis is necessary for functional regeneration of a forebrain neural circuit.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The impact of spike timing precision and spike emission reliability on decoding accuracy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Differences in vocal brain areas and astrocytes between the house wren and the rufous-tailed hummingbird.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2024Article
- Steroid-dependent plasticity in the song control system: Perineuronal nets and HVC neurogenesis.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- Cellular profiling of a recently-evolved social behavior in cichlid fishes.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Effects of the depletion of neural progenitors by focal X-ray irradiation on song production and perception in canaries.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Understanding hippocampal neural plasticity in captivity: Unique contributions of spatial specialists.Learning & behavior · 2022Review
- Plasticity in the hippocampal formation of shorebirds during the wintering period: Stereological analysis of parvalbumin neurons in Actitis macularius.Learning & behavior · 2022Article
- Regional Patterning of Adult Neurogenesis in the Homing Pigeon's Brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- What Is Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Good for?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
New neurons are added throughout the forebrain of adult birds. The song-control system is a model to investigate the addition of new long-projection neurons to a cortical circuit that regulates song, a learned sensorimotor behavior. Neuroblasts destined for the song nucleus HVC arise in the walls of the lateral ventricle, and wander through the pallium to reach HVC. The survival of new HVC neurons is supported by gonadally secreted testosterone and its downstream effectors including neurotrophins, vascularization, and electrical activity of postsynaptic neurons in nucleus RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium). In seasonal species, the HVC→RA circuit degenerates in nonbreeding birds, and is reconstructed by the incorporation of new projection neurons in breeding birds. There is a functional linkage between the death of mature HVC neurons and the birth of new neurons. Various hypotheses for the function of adult neurogenesis in the song system can be proposed, but this remains an open question.
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