The Song Must Go On: Resilience of the Songbird Vocal Motor Pathway

Barish Poole; Jeffrey E. Markowitz; Timothy J. Gardner

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038173

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The Song Must Go On: Resilience of the Songbird Vocal Motor Pathway

Barish Poole ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Barish Poole, Jeffrey E. Markowitz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jeffrey E. Markowitz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Barish Poole, Jeffrey E. Markowitz

Affiliations Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology, Boston,Massachusetts, United States of America
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Timothy J. Gardner

* E-mail: timothyg@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology, Boston,Massachusetts, United States of America
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The Song Must Go On: Resilience of the Songbird Vocal Motor Pathway

Barish Poole,
Jeffrey E. Markowitz,
Timothy J. Gardner

Published: June 29, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038173

About the Authors

Barish Poole

Contributed equally to this work with: Barish Poole, Jeffrey E. Markowitz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey E. Markowitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Barish Poole, Jeffrey E. Markowitz

Affiliations Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology, Boston,Massachusetts, United States of America

Timothy J. Gardner

* E-mail: timothyg@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology, Boston,Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BP TJG. Performed the experiments: BP. Analyzed the data: JEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEM. Wrote the paper: BP JEM TJG.

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