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Emberizid sparrows (emberizidae) have played a prominent role in the study of avian vocal communication and social behavior. We present here brain transcriptomes for three emberizid model systems, song sparrow  Melospiza melodia , white-throated sparrow  Zonotrichia albicollis , and Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow  Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii . Each of the assemblies covered fully or in part, over 89% of the previously annotated protein coding genes in the zebra finch  Taeniopygia guttata , with 16,846, 15,805, and 16,646 unique BLAST hits in song, white-throated and white-crowned sparrows, respectively. As in previous studies, we find tissue of origin (auditory forebrain versus hypothalamus and whole brain) as an important determinant of overall expression profile. We also demonstrate the successful isolation of RNA and RNA-sequencing from  post-mortem  samples from building strikes and suggest that such an approach could be useful when traditional sampling opportunities are limited. These transcriptomes will be an important resource for the study of social behavior in birds and for data driven annotation of forthcoming whole genome sequences for these and other bird species.

Brain transcriptome sequencing and assembly of three songbird model systems for the study of social behavior