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Sunda zebra finch

The Sunda zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae. It is found in the Lesser Sundas.

Parasites

T. guttata sometimes serves as a model organism. Study of the immune response of T. guttata to parasites is informative for avians as a class. Its transcriptome responses to infection have been studied by Watson et al., 2017 and Scalf et al., 2019.[2]: 542  T. guttata is not known to have ever been infected with any Plasmodium. Valkiūnas et al., 2018 find T. guttata seems totally resistant to the malaria parasite that is most common among avians, Plasmodium relictum.[3]

Vocalization

Only male zebra finches sing.[4] Each finch has an individual song.[4] Between the ages of 25 and 90 days old, young zebra finches learn to sing by copying the songs of adults, and sometimes by copying the songs of other juveniles.[4]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Taeniopygia guttata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T103817982A132195948. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Santiago-Alarcon, Diego; Alfonso, Marzal, eds. (2020). Avian Malaria and Related Parasites in the Tropics : Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp. xiv+575. ISBN 978-3-030-51632-1. OCLC 1204140762. ISBN 978-3-030-51633-8.
  3. ^ Martínez-de la Puente, Josué; Santiago-Alarcon, Diego; Palinauskas, Vaidas; Bensch, Staffan (2021). "Plasmodium relictum". Trends in Parasitology. 37 (4). Cell Press: 355–356. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2020.06.004. ISSN 1471-4922.
  4. ^ a b c Le Maguer, Lucille; Derégnaucourt, Sébastien; Geberzahn, Nicole (2021-04-30). "Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)". Ethology. 127 (7): 537–549. doi:10.1111/eth.13159. ISSN 0179-1613.


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