Sarah E. London

The paper tests the causal role of the auditory forebrain and ERK/mTOR signaling in female sensory song learning in zebra finches, finding mTOR signaling is sex-specific.

The paper summarizes methods and lessons from assembling 16 vertebrate genomes, highlights the importance of long-read sequencing, and introduces the Vertebrate Genomes Project to generate complete reference genomes for all vertebrate species.

The paper examines how inhibitory cell populations in zebra finches vary with age, sex, and prior tutor experience during a critical period for song learning.

The paper examines how song learning in zebra finches affects functional connectivity in the auditory forebrain and its link to song stereotypy.

The paper shows zebra finches exhibit functional homotopy between brain regions involved in song learning despite lacking a corpus callosum, suggesting alternative mechanisms for interhemispheric coordination.