Others include whales, elephants,and bats. Researchers have been studying the zebra finch to try to identify the genes that make this vocal learning possible.

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The zebra finch genome analysis is published in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

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The display has a humorous theme, showing a lion,giraffe, and zebra getting haircuts.

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An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the zebra finch.

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(BIRD's SOUND) That's the song of The Australian zebra finch is named for the black and white stripes on the male's throat - he's the one who does all the singing.

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Genes are being turned off, genes are being turned on." That's Neurobiologist David Clayton from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the lead researchers in an international team that has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the zebra finch.

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Warren says now that researchers have a map of the zebra finch genome, they can carry out experiments to identify which genes in the finch's brain are most critical to hearing and producing song - and by extension, which genes may play a role in human speech disorders, like those related to stuttering, autism,and Parkinson's disease.

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