Neuropeptide B mediates female sexual receptivity in medaka fish, acting in a female-specific but reversible manner

…, Y Nishiike, K Ishikawa, K Hosono, Y Kawabata-Sakata… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.39495.001 Male and female animals display innate sex-specific mating
behaviors. In teleost fish, altering the adult sex steroid milieu can effectively reverse sex-typical …

Male-specific vasotocin expression in the medaka tuberal hypothalamus: androgen dependence and probable role in aggression

Y Kawabata-Sakata, S Kanda, K Okubo - Molecular and Cellular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Terrestrial vertebrates have a population of androgen-dependent vasotocin (VT)-expressing
neurons in the extended amygdala that are more abundant in males and mediate male-…

Androgen-dependent sexual dimorphism in pituitary tryptophan hydroxylase expression: relevance to sex differences in pituitary hormones

Y Kawabata-Sakata, Y Nishiike… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Serotonin is a biogenic monoamine conserved across phyla that is implicated in diverse
physiological and behavioural functions. On examining the expression of the rate-limiting …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial mat compositions and localization patterns explain the virulence of black band disease in corals

N Wada, A Iguchi, Y Urabe, Y Yoshioka… - npj Biofilms and …, 2023 - nature.com
Black band disease (BBD) in corals is characterized by a distinctive, band-like microbial mat,
which spreads across the tissues and often kills infected colonies. The microbial mat is …

Sexually dimorphic neuropeptide B neurons in medaka exhibit activated cellular phenotypes dependent on estrogen

Y Kikuchi, T Hiraki-Kajiyama, M Nakajo… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Brain and behavior of teleosts are highly sexually plastic throughout life, yet the underlying
neural mechanisms are largely unknown. On examining brain morphology in the teleost …

Evolutionary differentiation of androgen receptor ohnologs is responsible for the development of androgen-dependent unique sexual characteristics in a teleost fish

Y Ogino, S Ansai, E Watanabe, M Yasugi, Y Katayama… - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Teleost fishes exhibit complex unique sexual characteristics, such as fin enlargement and
courtship display, in response to androgens. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary differentiation of androgen receptor is responsible for sexual characteristic development in a teleost fish

Y Ogino, S Ansai, E Watanabe, M Yasugi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Teleost fishes exhibit complex sexual characteristics in response to androgens, such as fin
enlargement and courtship display. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying their …

The decision of male medaka to mate or fight depends on two complementary androgen signaling pathways

Y Nishiike, K Okubo - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Yukiko Ogino for sharing information about the possible roles of ara and arb prior to 514
publication; Dr. Hideaki Takeuchi for technical advice on three-chamber tests; and Akira Hirata, …

[PDF][PDF] Estrogen receptor 2b is the major determinant of sex-typical mating behavior and sexual preference in medaka

Y Nishiike, D Miyazoe, R Togawa, K Yokoyama… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Male and female animals typically display innate sex-specific mating behaviors, which, in
vertebrates, are highly dependent on sex steroid signaling. While estradiol-17β (E2) signaling …

[HTML][HTML] Prostaglandin E2 receptor Ptger4b regulates female-specific peptidergic neurons and female sexual receptivity in medaka

T Fleming, Y Kikuchi, M Nakajo, M Tachizawa… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
In vertebrates, female receptivity to male courtship is highly dependent on ovarian secretion
of estrogens and prostaglandins. We recently identified female-specific neurons in the …