The pale spear-nosed bat: A neuromolecular and transgenic model for vocal learning.

ABSTRACT: Vocal learning, the ability to produce modified vocalizations via learning from acoustic signals, is a key trait in the evolution of speech. While extensively studied in songbirds, mammalian models for vocal learning are rare. Bats present a promising study system given their gregarious natures, small size, and the ability of some species to be maintained in captive colonies. We utilize the pale spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus discolor) and report advances in establishing this species as a tractable model for understanding vocal learning. We have taken an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide an integrated understanding across genomics (Part I), neurobiology (Part II), and transgenics (Part III). In Part I, we generated new, high-quality genome annotations of coding genes and noncodi

SUBMITTER: Vernes SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826251 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature