Vocal practice regulates singing activity–dependent genes underlying age-independent vocal learning in songbirds

• Shin Hayase,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Hongdi Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Eri Ohgushi,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Masahiko Kobayashi,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Chihiro Mori,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Haruhito Horita,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Katsuhiko Mineta,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Computational Bioscience Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Wan-chun Liu,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, United States of America

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• Kazuhiro Wada

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wada@sci.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliations Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-9144

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