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Margaret Ferris
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 2
Citations - 971
Margaret Ferris is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Songbird & Zebra finch. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 912 citations.
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The genome of a songbird
Wesley C. Warren,David F. Clayton,Hans Ellegren,Arthur P. Arnold,LaDeana W. Hillier,Axel Künstner,Steve Searle,Simon D. M. White,Albert J. Vilella,Susan Fairley,Andreas Heger,Lesheng Kong,Chris P. Ponting,Erich D. Jarvis,Claudio V. Mello,Patrick Minx,Peter V. Lovell,Tarciso A. F. Velho,Margaret Ferris,Christopher N. Balakrishnan,Saurabh Sinha,Charles Blatti,Sarah E. London,Yun Li,Ya-Chi Lin,Jimin George,Jonathan V. Sweedler,Bruce R. Southey,Preethi H. Gunaratne,Michael E. Watson,Kiwoong Nam,Niclas Backström,Linnéa Smeds,Benoit Nabholz,Yuichiro Itoh,Osceola Whitney,Andreas R. Pfenning,Jason T. Howard,Martin Völker,Benjamin M. Skinner,Darren K. Griffin,Liang Ye,William M. McLaren,Paul Flicek,Víctor Quesada,Gloria Velasco,Carlos López-Otín,Xose S. Puente,Tsviya Olender,Doron Lancet,Arian F.A. Smit,Robert Hubley,Miriam K. Konkel,Jerilyn A. Walker,Mark A. Batzer,Wanjun Gu,David D. Pollock,Lin Chen,Ze Cheng,Evan E. Eichler,Jessica Stapley,Jon Slate,Robert Ekblom,Tim R. Birkhead,Terry Burke,David W. Burt,Constance Scharff,Iris Adam,Hugues Richard,Marc Sultan,Alexey Soldatov,Hans Lehrach,Scott V. Edwards,Shiaw-Pyng Yang,XiaoChing Li,Tina Graves,Lucinda Fulton,Joanne O. Nelson,Asif T. Chinwalla,Shunfeng Hou,Elaine R. Mardis,Richard K. Wilson +81 more
TL;DR: This work shows that song behaviour engages gene regulatory networks in the zebra finch brain, altering the expression of long non-coding RNAs, microRNAs, transcription factors and their targets and shows evidence for rapid molecular evolution in the songbird lineage of genes that are regulated during song experience.
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The Songbird Neurogenomics (SoNG) Initiative: Community-based tools and strategies for study of brain gene function and evolution
Kirstin Replogle,Arthur P. Arnold,Gregory F. Ball,Mark Band,Staffan Bensch,Eliot A. Brenowitz,Shu Dong,Jenny Drnevich,Margaret Ferris,Jimin George,George Gong,Dennis Hasselquist,Alvaro G. Hernandez,Ryan W. Kim,Harris A. Lewin,Lei Liu,Peter V. Lovell,Claudio V. Mello,Sara Naurin,Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas,Jyothi Thimmapuram,Juli Wade,David F. Clayton +22 more
TL;DR: A core set of genomic tools and a novel collaborative strategy to probe gene expression in diverse songbird species and natural contexts are developed and a coordinated set of 25 planned experiments by 16 research groups probing fundamental links between genome, brain, evolution and behavior in songbirds are planned.