Contact: Diana Yates
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Caption: The Australian zebra finch can differentiate between a familiar song and a song it has never heard before. Hearing a new song spurs changes in gene expression in the finch brain.
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.
Usage Restrictions: Photo may be used only with stories about the research described in the news release. Please credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.
Related news release: Songbird genome sings of the communicating brain