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Professor Dr. SHIGA, Sakiko

Selected Publications

●Shiga, S., Numata, H. (2009) Roles of PERIOD immunoreactive neurons in circadian rhythms and photoperiodism in the blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 867-877.

●Shimokawa, K., Numata, H., Shiga, S. (2008) Neurons important for the photoperiodic control of diapause in the bean bug, Riptortus pedestris. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Neuroethology, Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 194: 751-762.

●Hamanaka, Y., Yasuyama, K., Numata, H., Shiga, S. (2005) Synaptic connections between pigment-dispersing factor-immunoreactive neurons and neurons in the pars lateralis of the blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae. Journal of Comparative Neurology 491:390‐399.

●Shiga, S., Davis, N.T., Hildebrand, J.G. (2003) Role of neurosecretory cells in the photoperiodic induction of pupal diapause of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta. Journal of Comparative Neurology 462: 275-285.

●Shiga, S., Numata, H. (2000) The roles of neurosecretory neurons in the pars intercerebralis and pars lateralis in reproductive diapause of the blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae. Naturwissenschaften 87:125-128.


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Associate Professor Dr. GOTO, Shin G.

Selected Publications
●Ikeno, T., Tanaka, S.I., Numata, H. Goto, S.G. (2010) Photoperiodic diapause under the control of circadian clock genes in an insect. BMC Biology 8, 116.
●Goto, S.G., Shiga, S., Numata, H. (2010) Photoperiodism in Insects: Perception of light and the role of clock genes. In Nelson, R.J., Denlinger, D.L., Somers, D.E. (eds.) Photoperiodism: The Biological Calendar. Oxford University Press. pp. 258-286.

●Goto, S. G., Numata, H. (2009) Possible involvement of distinct photoreceptors in the photoperiodic induction of diapause in the flesh fly Sarcophaga similis. Journal of Insect Physiology 55: 401-407.

●Goto, S.G., Han, B., Denlinger, D.L. (2006) A nondiapausing variant of the flesh fly, Sarcophaga bullata, that shows arrhythmic adult eclosion and elevated expression of period and timeless. Journal of Insect Physiology 52, 1213-1218.

●Tachibana, S.-I., Numata, H., Goto, S.G. (2005) Gene expression of heat-shock proteins (Hsp23, Hsp70 and Hsp90) during and after larval diapause in the blow fly Lucilia sericata. Journal of Insect Physiology 51: 641-647.

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E-mail： shingoto@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp
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