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Daily vocal exercis...
Daily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird
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- Adam, Iris (author)
- Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Riebel, Katharina (author)
- Institute of Biology, Animal Sciences & Health, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Stål, Per (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för integrativ medicinsk biologi (IMB)
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- Wood, Neil (author)
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, NJ, Burlington, United States
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- Previs, Michael J. (author)
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, NJ, Burlington, United States
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- Elemans, Coen P. H. (author)
- Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Springer Nature, 2023
- 2023
- English.
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In: Nature Communications. - : Springer Nature. - 2041-1723. ; 14:1
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- Vocal signals, including human speech and birdsong, are produced by complicated, precisely coordinated body movements, whose execution is fitness-determining in resource competition and mate choice. While the acquisition and maintenance of motor skills generally requires practice to develop and maintain both motor circuitry and muscle performance, it is unknown whether vocal muscles, like limb muscles, exhibit exercise-induced plasticity. Here, we show that juvenile and adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis) require daily vocal exercise to first gain and subsequently maintain peak vocal muscle performance. Experimentally preventing male birds from singing alters both vocal muscle physiology and vocal performance within days. Furthermore, we find females prefer song of vocally exercised males in choice experiments. Vocal output thus contains information on recent exercise status, and acts as an honest indicator of past exercise investment in songbirds, and possibly in all vocalising vertebrates.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Sjukgymnastik (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Physiotherapy (hsv//eng)
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