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Table 6 Genes implicated in neurobehavioral evolution by converging lines of evidence

From: Molecular evolution of genes in avian genomes

Ensembl ID

Locus

Gene

Evolving rapidly in the primate lineage [29]

  

   ENSTGUG00000000255

DRD2

D(2) dopamine receptor

   ENSTGUG00000004249

ASPM

Abnormal spindle-like microcephaly-associated protein

   ENSTGUG00000004747

GRIN2A

Glutamate [NMDA] receptor subunit epsilon-1 precursor

   ENSTGUG00000007079

LHX2

LIM/homeobox protein Lhx2

Differentially expressed in zebra finch song control system [30]

  

   ENSTGUG00000000694

GPR98

G protein-coupled receptor 98 precursor

   ENSTGUG00000002176

MCF2

Mcf2 transforming sequence-like

   ENSTGUG00000004464

NEFL

Neurofilament triplet L protein

   ENSTGUG00000005484

GRIA2

Glutamate receptor, ionotropic AMPA 2

   ENSTGUG00000006839

CACNA1D

Voltage-dependent L-type calcium channel subunit alpha-1D

   ENSTGUG00000007224

PTPRF

Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type F

   ENSTGUG00000007343

RAI1

Retinoic acid-induced protein 1

   ENSTGUG00000010757

GRM1

Glutamate receptor, metabotropic 1

   ENSTGUG00000015209

SYCP1

Synaptonemal complex protein 1

  1. Neurological genes under positive selection in the zebra finch (see also Table S3 in Additional file 1) were assessed for representation in the results of two other studies: orthologs under positive selection in the primate lineage (Dorus et al. [29]) and zebra finch genes that are differentially expressed in song nucleus the high vocal centre compared to the underlying 'shelf' region (Lovell et al. [30]).