Positive selection in noncoding genomic regions of vocal learning birds is associated with genes implicated in vocal learning and speech functions in humans

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Alignment and AR distribution information. (A) The fraction of each species genome aligned to the chicken, the genome with the most complete annotation in this study. (B) The fraction of the chicken genome with at least N species aligned to chicken (including chicken). (C) Distributions of ARs among the vocal learning acceleration tests in this study. In all three clades, the majority of ARs are intergenic (purple).

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  1. Published in Advance October 19, 2021, doi: 10.1101/gr.275989.121 Genome Res. 31: 2035-2049

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