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    Brain transcriptome sequencing and assembly of three songbird model systems for the study of social behavior

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    Balakrishnan, Christopher N.; Mukai, Motoko; Gonser, Rusty A.; Wingfield, John C.; London, Sarah E.; Tuttle, Elaina M.; Clayton, David F.
    Abstract
    Emberizid sparrows (emberizidae) have played a prominent role in the study of avian vocal communication and social behavior. We present here brain transcriptomes for three emberizid model systems, song sparrow Melospiza melodia, white-throated sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis, and Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii. Each of the assemblies covered fully or in part, over 89% of the previously annotated protein coding genes in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata, with 16,846, 15,805, and 16,646 unique BLAST hits in song, white-throated and white-crowned sparrows, respectively. As in previous studies, we find tissue of origin (auditory forebrain versus hypothalamus and whole brain) as an important determinant of overall expression profile. We also demonstrate the successful isolation of RNA and RNA-sequencing from post-mortem samples from building strikes and suggest that such an approach could be useful when traditional sampling opportunities are limited. These transcriptomes will be an important resource for the study of social behavior in birds and for data driven annotation of forthcoming whole genome sequences for these and other bird species.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5505
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     Animal Behavior; Neuroscience; Genomics; Evolutionary Studies 
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    2014-05
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    Balakrishnan, Christopher N., & Mukai, Motoko, & Gonser, Rusty A., & Wingfield, John C., & London, Sarah E., & Tuttle, Elaina M., & Clayton, David F.. (May 2014). Brain transcriptome sequencing and assembly of three songbird model systems for the study of social behavior. PeerJ, 2(), 1- 17. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5505

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    Balakrishnan, Christopher N., and Mukai, Motoko, and Gonser, Rusty A., and Wingfield, John C., and London, Sarah E., and Tuttle, Elaina M., and Clayton, David F.. "Brain transcriptome sequencing and assembly of three songbird model systems for the study of social behavior". PeerJ. 2:. (1-17), May 2014. September 27, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5505.
    Chicago:
    Balakrishnan, Christopher N. and Mukai, Motoko and Gonser, Rusty A. and Wingfield, John C. and London, Sarah E. and Tuttle, Elaina M. and Clayton, David F., "Brain transcriptome sequencing and assembly of three songbird model systems for the study of social behavior," PeerJ 2, no. (May 2014), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5505 (accessed September 27, 2023).
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    Balakrishnan, Christopher N., Mukai, Motoko, Gonser, Rusty A., Wingfield, John C., London, Sarah E., Tuttle, Elaina M., Clayton, David F.. Brain transcriptome sequencing and assembly of three songbird model systems for the study of social behavior. PeerJ. May 2014; 2(): 1-17. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5505. Accessed September 27, 2023.
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