ArticleNature communications2023
Daily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird.
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- Unsupervised restoration of a complex learned behavior after large-scale neuronal perturbation.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Daily singing of adult songbirds functions to maintain song performance independently of auditory feedback and age.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Male and female syringeal muscles exhibit superfast shortening velocities in zebra finches.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
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Vocal signals, including human speech and birdsong, are produced by complicated, precisely coordinated body movements, whose execution is fitness-determining in resource competition and mate choice. While the acquisition and maintenance of motor skills generally requires practice to develop and maintain both motor circuitry and muscle performance, it is unknown whether vocal muscles, like limb muscles, exhibit exercise-induced plasticity. Here, we show that juvenile and adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis) require daily vocal exercise to first gain and subsequently maintain peak vocal muscle performance. Experimentally preventing male birds from singing alters both vocal muscle physiology and vocal performance within days. Furthermore, we find females prefer song of vocally exercised males in choice experiments. Vocal output thus contains information on recent exercise status, and acts as an honest indicator of past exercise investment in songbirds, and possibly in all vocalising vertebrates.
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