ArticleScientific reports2021
Syringeal vocal folds do not have a voice in zebra finch vocal development.
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- Transitions and tricks: nonlinear phenomena in the avian voice.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- A synchrotron X-ray CT-based 3D atlas of the songbird syrinx with single muscle fibre resolution implies fine motor control of syringeal vocal folds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Millisecond-scale motor coding precedes sensorimotor learning in songbirds.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Does the syrinx, a peripheral structure, constrain effects of sex steroids on behavioral sex reversal in adult canaries?Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
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Abstract
Vocal behavior can be dramatically changed by both neural circuit development and postnatal maturation of the body. During song learning in songbirds, both the song system and syringeal muscles are functionally changing, but it is unknown if maturation of sound generators within the syrinx contributes to vocal development. Here we densely sample the respiratory pressure control space of the zebra finch syrinx in vitro. We show that the syrinx produces sound very efficiently and that key acoustic parameters, minimal fundamental frequency, entropy and source level, do not change over development in both sexes. Thus, our data suggest that the observed acoustic changes in vocal development must be attributed to changes in the motor control pathway, from song system circuitry to muscle force, and not by material property changes in the avian analog of the vocal folds. We propose that in songbirds, muscle use and training driven by the sexually dimorphic song system are the crucial drivers that lead to sexual dimorphism of the syringeal skeleton and musculature. The size and properties of the instrument are thus not changing, while its player is.
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