Accelerated FoxP2 Evolution in Echolocating Bats

A Blog Around The Clock referenced this article in "Bats, Bats, Bats!" on 10 Sep 2008 at 15:53 GMT

"This month's Theme Of The Month in PLoS ONE are bats! Midway between the release of Batman II and Halloween, this sounds like an appropriate choice. Peter Binfield provides more information. A number of our bat papers have received media..."

Public Library of Science referenced this article in "At PLoS ONE we’re batty about Bats" on 09 Sep 2008 at 17:00 GMT

"Every month, PLoS ONE focuses on a particular topic where we publish a significant volume of work. This month we are focusing on Bat research which broadly falls into 2 categories, Physiology/Disease and Behaviour and we have analyzed our top papers in th"

Amigdala.info referenced this article in "FOXP2 e l’ecolocalizzazione dei pipistrelli" on 19 Mar 2008 at 09:09 GMT

"Il gene FOXP2, detto il gene del linguaggio, ha un ruolo molto importante nello sviluppo nella capacità di parlare ed emettere suoni. E’ un gene altamente conservato, nel corso dell’evoluzione dei vertebrati non ha subito molte mutazioni ..."

Afarensis referenced this article in "FoxP2 and Echolocation in Bats and Whales" on 24 Sep 2007 at 23:46 GMT

"As I mentioned previously PLOS has an interesting paper on echolocation in bats and whales (you may also recall this post on echolocation in whales). The PloS One paper looks at the FoxP2 gene in bats, cetaceans and various other..."

Neurophilosophy referenced this article in "Biological sonar systems" on 24 Sep 2007 at 20:59 GMT

" Echolocation - or biological sonar - can be thought of as an auditory imaging system that is used by organisms in environments where vision is ineffective. involves the emission of vocalizations by the animal, and the detection of the..."

NCWC-BIO101-Intro to Life Science referenced this article in "Rethinking FOXP2" on 21 Sep 2007 at 02:02 GMT

"Earlier studies have indicated that a gene called FOXP2, possibly involved in brain development, is extremely conserved in vertebrates, except for two notable mutations in humans. This finding suggested that this gene may in some way be involved in th..."

A Blog Around The Clock referenced this article in "Rethinking FOXP2" on 20 Sep 2007 at 20:37 GMT

"Earlier studies have indicated that a gene called FOXP2, possibly involved in brain development, is extremely conserved in vertebrates, except for two notable mutations in humans. This finding suggested that this gene may in some way be involved in the..."