Of Mice, Birds, and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System Has Some Features Similar to Humans and Song-Learning Birds

Gustavo Arriaga; Eric P. Zhou; Erich D. Jarvis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046610

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Of Mice, Birds, and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System Has Some Features Similar to Humans and Song-Learning Birds

Gustavo Arriaga ,

* E-mail: arriaga@neuro.duke.edu (GA); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Eric P. Zhou,

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Erich D. Jarvis

* E-mail: arriaga@neuro.duke.edu (GA); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Of Mice, Birds, and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System Has Some Features Similar to Humans and Song-Learning Birds

Gustavo Arriaga,
Eric P. Zhou,
Erich D. Jarvis

Published: October 10, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046610

About the Authors

Gustavo Arriaga

* E-mail: arriaga@neuro.duke.edu (GA); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Eric P. Zhou

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Erich D. Jarvis

* E-mail: arriaga@neuro.duke.edu (GA); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EDJ GA. Performed the experiments: GA EZ. Analyzed the data: GA EDJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GA EDJ. Wrote the paper: GA EDJ.

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