Steven M. Phelps

This study identifies the vocal mechanism of the singing mouse, revealing that its whistle-like song relies on air sac inflation and specific laryngeal muscles for frequency control.

The paper investigates how androgen receptor modulation affects vocal circuitry in Alston's singing mouse, finding that androgens drive coordinated changes in AR abundance across motor and motivational circuits, influencing song characteristics.

This study shows leptin increases song effort in male Alston's singing mice when social context is stimulating, and affects vocal amplitude but not rate.

This study shows that female song in Alston's singing mice increases vocal display effort in both sexes, highlighting the social context of song in communication.

The paper identifies brain circuits involved in prairie vole pair bonding using whole-brain mapping and finds that bonding-related circuits are largely sexually monomorphic and show coordinated activity between pair members.

The paper assembles and annotates the genome of the singing mouse, using single nuclei sequencing to identify cell types in a brain region involved in song coordination.

The paper maps the neural circuitry underlying vocalizations in Alston's singing mouse using pseudorabies virus tracing, revealing co-labeling patterns in key brain regions involved in vocal production and social behavior.

The paper compares gene expression in brain regions of prairie voles and meadow voles to identify species differences associated with pair bonding.