Accelerated FoxP2 Evolution in Echolocating Bats
Gang Li, Jinhong Wang, Stephen J. Rossiter et al. · 2007
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Gang Li, Jinhong Wang, Stephen Rossiter and colleagues found fast change in the FoxP2 gene in echolocating bats, reporting in PLOS ONE in 2007. FoxP2 helps control the face and mouth movements behind speech and calls. Across backboned animals it barely changes, yet humans and chimps differ at two building blocks.
Bats that hunt by sound place huge demands on mouth and voice control. The team compared FoxP2 across bat species and report sped up evolution in the echolocating lines. The result links a speech related gene to another group that lives by precise vocal skill. It widens the story of how vocal control evolves.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gang Li, Jinhong Wang, Stephen J. Rossiter et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000900