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Overview

Manfred Gahr is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist has explored multiple subfields, including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, ecology, genetics, and molecular biology. Their main research topics cover animal vocal communication and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, marine animal studies overview, plant and animal studies, avian ecology and behavior, genetic diversity and population structure, and chromosomal and genetic variations.

Gahr has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators. Among them are Carolina Frankl-Vilches, Antje Bakker, Daniel N. Düring, Meng-Ching Ko, and Amanda Monte.

The scientist has contributed to research papers published in various venues. The most frequent publication platforms include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Cell Reports, and Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Recent published papers include:

  • An Unbiased Molecular Approach Using 3'-UTRs Resolves the Avian Family-Level Tree of Life, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Fast Retrograde Access to Projection Neuron Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Functional differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis are associated with alternative reproductive tactics based on an inversion polymorphism, 2020, Hormones and Behavior
  • Highly Efficient Genome Modification of Cultured Primordial Germ Cells with Lentiviral Vectors to Generate Transgenic Songbirds, 2021, Stem Cell Reports
  • Testosterone Coordinates Gene Expression Across Different Tissues to Produce Carotenoid-Based Red Ornamentation, 2023, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • The honesty of bird song: multiple constraints for multiple traits

    Diego Gil;Manfred Gahr

  • Neural mechanisms of birdsong memory

    Johan J. Bolhuis;Manfred Gahr

  • Estrogen receptors in the avian brain: Survey reveals general distribution and forebrain areas unique to songbirds

    Manfred Gahr;Hans-Rudolf Güttinger;Donald E. Kroodsma

  • Distribution of aromatase, estrogen receptor, and androgen receptor mRNA in the forebrain of songbirds and nonsongbirds.

    Reinhold Metzdorf;Manfred Gahr;Leonida Fusani

  • Listeria monocytogenes and recurrent mycobacterial infections in a child with complete interferon-γ-receptor (IFNγR1) deficiency: Mutational analysis and evaluation of therapeutic options

    Joachim Roesler;Barbara Kofink;Joerg Wendisch;Stefan Heyden

  • Neural song control system of hummingbirds: comparison to swifts, vocal learning (Songbirds) and nonlearning (Suboscines) passerines, and vocal learning (Budgerigars) and nonlearning (Dove, owl, gull, quail, chicken) nonpasserines.

    Manfred Gahr

  • An Unbiased Molecular Approach Using 3'-UTRs Resolves the Avian Family-Level Tree of Life.

    Heiner Kuhl;Heiner Kuhl;Carolina Frankl-Vilches;Antje Bakker;Gerald Mayr

  • Distribution and Dynamics in the Expression of Androgen and Estrogen Receptors in Vocal Control Systems of Songbirds

    Manfred Gahr;Reinhold Metzdorf

  • Immunocytochemical localization of estrogen-binding neurons in the songbird brain

    Manfred Gahr;Gabriele Flügge;Hans-Rudolf Güttinger

  • Delineation of a brain nucleus: comparisons of cytochemical, hodological, and cytoarchitectural views of the song control nucleus HVC of the adult canary

    Manfred Gahr

  • Seasonal expression of androgen receptors, estrogen receptors, and aromatase in the canary brain in relation to circulating androgens and estrogens

    Leonida Fusani;Thomas Van't Hof;John B. Hutchison;Manfred Gahr

  • Distribution of Estrogen Receptors in the Brain of the Japanese Quail: An Immunocytochemical Study

    Jacques Balthazart;M. Gahr;C. Surlemont

  • Estrogen-inducible, sex-specific expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA in a forebrain song control nucleus of the juvenile zebra finch

    Falk Dittrich;Yu Feng;Reinhold Metzdorf;Manfred Gahr

  • Developmental changes in estrogen-sensitive neurons in the forebrain of the zebra finch

    Manfred Gahr;Masakazu Konishi

  • Early condition, song learning, and the volume of song brain nuclei in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).

    Diego Gil;Marc Naguib;Katharina Riebel;Alison Rutstein

  • Spatial ability is impaired and hippocampal mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA expression reduced in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) selected for acute high corticosterone response to stress

    Zoë G Hodgson;Simone L Meddle;Mark L Roberts;Mark L Roberts;Katherine L Buchanan

  • Zebra Finch Mates Use Their Forebrain Song System in Unlearned Call Communication

    Andries Ter Maat;Lisa Trost;Hannes Sagunsky;Susanne Seltmann

  • The Sexually Dimorphic Expression of Androgen Receptors in the Song Nucleus Hyperstriatalis Ventrale Pars Caudale of the Zebra Finch Develops Independently of Gonadal Steroids

    Manfred Gahr;Reinhold Metzdorf

  • Comparisons of Different Methods to Train a Young Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Guttata) to Learn a Song

    Sébastien Derégnaucourt;Colline Poirier;Anne Van der Kant;Annemie Van der Linden

  • The Stem Cell Marker Prominin-1/CD133 on Membrane Particles in Human Cerebrospinal Fluid Offers Novel Approaches for Studying Central Nervous System Disease

    Hagen B. Huttner;Hagen B. Huttner;Hagen B. Huttner;Peggy Janich;Martin Köhrmann;József Jászai

  • Distribution of sex steroid hormone receptors in the avian brain: functional implications for neural sex differences and sexual behaviors.

    Manfred Gahr

  • Neural mechanisms of birdsong memory

    Johan J. Bolhuis

Frequent Co-Authors

Ton G. G. Groothuis
Ton G. G. Groothuis University of Groningen
Annemie Van der Linden
Annemie Van der Linden University of Antwerp
Richard H. R. Hahnloser
Richard H. R. Hahnloser University of Zurich
Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya University of Tokyo
Bernd Timmermann
Bernd Timmermann Max Planck Society
Barney A. Schlinger
Barney A. Schlinger University of California, Los Angeles
Luis M. Garcia-Segura
Luis M. Garcia-Segura Spanish National Research Council
Johan J. Bolhuis
Johan J. Bolhuis University of Cambridge
Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith
Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith University of Cambridge
Steven A. Goldman
Steven A. Goldman University of Rochester Medical Center

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