📄 Publications

📄 Publications

† equally contributed
* corresponding author
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All of my first-author papers are open access and have been press released — feel free to take a look!

Preprint / Under review

1. Sato D.X.* (2025) XXXXX. Under review

Peer-reviewed papers in international journals

12. Sato D.X.* and Y. Takahashi* (2025) Neurogenomic and behavioral principles shape freezing dynamics and synergistic performance in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Communications, in press
    

11. Okuyama T., D.X. Sato*, Y. Takahashi* (2025) Genetic heterogeneity induces nonadditive behavioural changes in Drosophila. Journal of Experimental Biology, in press
    

10. Chen J., K. Okimura, …, D.X. Sato (22/27), …, T. Yoshimura (2025) Non-human primate seasonal transcriptome atlas reveals seasonal changes in physiology and diseases. Nature Communications, 16:3906
    Press release: English/Japanese

9. Sato D.X.*, T. Okuyama, Y. Takahashi* (2025) Multifaceted and extensive behavioral trajectories of genomically diverse Drosophila lines. Scientific Data, 12:400
   Press release: English

8. Hagihara H., H. Shoji, …, D.X. Sato (125/131), …, T. Miyakawa (2024) Large-scale animal model study uncovers altered brain pH and lactate levels as a transdiagnostic endophenotype of neuropsychiatric disorders involving cognitive impairment. eLife, 12:RP89376

7. Sato D.X.*, Y. Matsuda, N. Usio, R. Funayama, K. Nakayama, T. Makino* (2023) Genomic adaptive potential to cold environments in the invasive red swamp crayfish. iScience, 26(8):107267
   Press release: English/Japanese (Chiba Univ.)/Japanese (Tohoku Univ.)

6. Sato D.X.†, Y. U. Inoue†, N. Kuga, S. Hattori, K. Nomoto, Y. Morimoto, G. Sala, H. Hagihara, T. Kikusui, T. Sasaki, Y. Ikegaya, T. Miyakawa, T. Inoue, M. Kawata (2022) Humanized substitutions of Vmat1 in mice alter amygdala-dependent behaviors associated with the evolution of anxiety. iScience, 25(8):104800
   Press release: English/Japanese

5. Chen J., H. Bi, M.E. Pettersson, D.X. Sato, A.P. Fuentes-Pardo, C. Mo, S. Younis, O. Wallerman, P. Jern, G. Molés, A. Gómez, G. Kleinau, P. Scheerer, L. Andersson (2021) Functional differences between TSHR alleles associate with variation in spawning season in Atlantic herring. Communications Biology, 4:795.

4. Sato D.X.†, N. Rafati†, H. Ring, S. Younis, C. Feng, J.A. Blanco-Aguiar, C.-J. Rubin, R. Villafuerte, F. Hallböök, M. Carneiro, L. Andersson (2020) Brain transcriptomics of wild and domestic rabbits suggests that changes in dopamine signaling and ciliary function contributed to evolution of tameness. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12(10):1918–1928.
   Press release: English/Japanese

3. Ikemoto A., D.X. Sato, T. Makino, M. Kawata (2020) Genetic factors for short life span associated with evolution of the loss of flight ability. Ecology and Evolution, 10:6020–6029.

2. Sato D.X., Y. Ishii, T. Nagai, K. Ohashi, M. Kawata (2019) Human-specific mutations in VMAT1 confer functional changes and multi-directional evolution in the regulation of monoamine circuits. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19:220.
   Press release: English/Japanese

1. Sato D.X. and M. Kawata (2018) Positive and balancing selection on SLC18A1 gene associated with psychiatric disorders and human-unique personality traits. Evolution Letters, 2(5):499–510.
   Press release: English/Japanese

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