About the Authors
- Gesa Feenders
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Current address: Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Affiliation Volkswagen Nachwuchsgruppe Animal Navigation, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften (IBU), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
- Miriam Liedvogel
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Current address: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Affiliation Volkswagen Nachwuchsgruppe Animal Navigation, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften (IBU), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
- Miriam Rivas
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Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Manuela Zapka
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Affiliation Volkswagen Nachwuchsgruppe Animal Navigation, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften (IBU), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
- Haruhito Horita
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Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Erina Hara
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Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Kazuhiro Wada
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Current address: Division of Integrated Life Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Henrik Mouritsen
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: henrik.mouritsen@uni-oldenburg.de (HM); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EJ)
Affiliation Volkswagen Nachwuchsgruppe Animal Navigation, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften (IBU), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
- Erich D. Jarvis
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: henrik.mouritsen@uni-oldenburg.de (HM); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EJ)
Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology, 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: EJ HM GF. Performed the experiments: EJ HM ML GF MR MZ. Analyzed the data: EJ HM GF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EJ. Wrote the paper: EJ HM GF. Other: Performed the deafening surgeries and some of the singing-driven gene expression experiments: HH. Supervised initial gene expression experiments: KW. Performed the hummingbird experiments: EH.