Selected Publications


Expansion of learning capacity elicited by interspecific hybridization

Shibata Y, Toji N, Wang H, Go Y, Wada K.*

Science Advances 10: eadn3409, 2024

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn3409

(論文解説 Shibata et al., 2024 参照)

 

A predisposed motor bias shapes individuality in vocal learning

Toji N, Sawai A, Wang H, Ji Y, Sugioka R, Go Y, Wada K.*

PNAS 121: e2308837121, 2024

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2308837121

(論文解説 Toji, Sawai, Wang et al., 2024 参照)

 

Transcriptional regulatory divergence underpinning species-specific learned vocalization in songbirds

Wang H, Sawai A, Toji N, Sugioka R, Shibata Y, Suzuki Y, Ji Y, Hayase S, Akama S, Sese J, Wada K.*

PLoS Biology 17:e3000476. 2019

doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000476

(論文解説 Wang et al., 2019 参照)

 

Corticobasal ganglia projecting neurons are required for juvenile vocal learning but not for adult vocal plasticity in songbirds

Sánchez-Valpuesta M, Suzuki Y, Shibata Y, Toji N, Ji Y, Afrin N, Asogwa CN, Kojima I, Mizuguchi D, Kojima S, Okanoya K, Okado H, Kobayashi K, Wada K.*

PNAS 116:22833-22843. 2019

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913575116

(論文解説 Sanchez-Valpuesta et al., 2019 参照)

 

Vocal practice regulates singing activity-dependent genes underlying age-independent vocal learning in songbirds

Hayase S, Wang H, Ohgushi E, Kobayashi M, Mori C, Horita H, Mineta K, Liu WC, Wada K.*

PLoS Biology 16:e2006537. 2018

doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006537

 

Audition-Independent Vocal Crystallization Associated with Intrinsic Developmental Gene Expression Dynamics

Mori C, Wada K*

Journal of Neuroscience  35:878-889. 2015

doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1804-14.2015

論文解説 Mori & Wada, 2015 参照)