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Open AccessDaily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird
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 ...
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Open AccessDriving singing behaviour in songbirds using a multi-modal, multi-agent virtual environment
Interactive biorobotics provides unique experimental potential to study the mechanisms underlying social communication but is limited by our ability to build expressive robots that exhibit the complex behaviou...
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Open AccessSyringeal vocal folds do not have a voice in zebra finch vocal development
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 functionall...
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Multi-layer Access Control for SDN-Based Telco Clouds
The telecom industry has recently started to adapt the emerging paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in combination with cloud computing to the telecommunication world. Both technologies enable a high...
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Open AccessThe genome of a songbird
The genome of the zebra finch — a songbird and a model for the study of vertebrate brain, behaviour and evolution — has been sequenced. Its comparison with the chicken genome, the only other bird genome availa...
