Article Information
- Received April 1, 2019
- Revision received December 2, 2019
- Accepted December 4, 2019
- First published January 2, 2020.
- Version of record published January 2, 2020.
Author Information
- Darcy B. Kelley1,
- Irene H. Ballagh1,2,
- Charlotte L. Barkan1,3,
- Andres Bendesky4,
- Taffeta M. Elliott1,5,
- Ben J. Evans1,7,
- Ian C. Hall1,8,
- Young Mi Kwon1,4,
- Ursula Kwong-Brown1,
- Elizabeth C. Leininger1,6,
- Emilie C. Perez1,
- Heather J. Rhodes9,10,
- Avelyne Villain1,
- Ayako Yamaguchi1,9,11, and
- Erik Zornik1,3,9,11
- 1Department of Biological Sciences and Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027,
- 2Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T132, Canada,
- 3Department of Biology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon 97202,
- 4Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology and Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027,
- 5Department of Psychology and Education, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801,
- 6Division of Natural Sciences, New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida 34243,
- 7Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada,
- 8Department of Biology, Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois 60532,
- 9Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,
- 10Department of Biology, Denison University, Granville, Ohio 43023, and
- 11School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Author contributions
Author contributions: D.R.K., I.H.B., C.L.B., A.B., T.M.E., B.J.E., I.C.H., Y.M.K., U.K.-B., E.C.L., E.C.P., H.J.R., A.V., A.Y., and E.Z. designed research; D.R.K., I.H.B., C.L.B., A.B., T.M.E., B.J.E., I.C.H., Y.M.K., U.K.-B., E.C.L., E.C.P., H.J.R., A.V., A.Y., and E.Z. performed research; all authors analyzed data; D.B.K. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received April 1, 2019.
- Revision received December 2, 2019.
- Accepted December 4, 2019.
This work was supported by the Sloan Foundation, National Institutes of Health R01 NS23684, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship, a MBL Whitman Fellowship, and research funds associated with the Weintraub Chair (D.B.K.); Columbia RISE award (D.B.K. and A.B.); Searle Scholarship, Klingenstein–Simons Fellowship Award in Neurosciences, and Sloan Foundation Fellowship (A.B.); Fulbright International Science and Technology Graduate Fellowship (I.H.B.), National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (D.B.K., C.L.B., T.M.E.), the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN/283102-2012 and RGPIN-2017-05770 (B.J.E.) National Institutes of Health F32 GM103266 and Revson post-doctoral fellowships (I.C.H.), a post-doctoral Fulbright Award (E.C.P.), NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship NS054391, R.C. Good Fellowship (H.J.R.), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant RO1 NS048834, Clare Boothe Luce Professorship, NSF IOS 1146501,1557945 (A.Y.); NIH National Research Service Award DC6743-2, National Institutes of Health NS2091977, National Science Foundation IOS 1755423 (E.Z.). We acknowledge the key contributions of Dr. Martha Tobias (Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University, emerita) to the research trajectory described here: the initial mapping of the vocal circuit, the vox in vitro larynx preparation and mechanism of sound production, the mechanisms for sexual differentiation of the vocal neuromuscular synapse, and the characterization of vocalizations across social contexts and species.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Darcy B. Kelley at dbk3{at}columbia.edu