La transcriptómica celular revela las identidades evolutivas de los circuitos vocales de las aves cantoras

Bradley M Colquitt1,2, Devin P Merullo3, Genevieve Konopka4

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 12, 2021
PubMed
Resumen

Los pájaros cantores poseen comportamientos complejos a pesar de carecer de un neocórtex. Sus circuitos vocales comparten similitudes transcripcionales con las neuronas neocorticales de mamíferos, pero tienen orígenes de desarrollo distintos.

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