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42. Wicher, D.*, Morinaga, S., Halty-deLeon, L., Funk, N., Hansson, B., Touhara K., and Stengl, M. "Identification and characterization of the bombykal receptor in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta" J. Exp. Biol. 220, 1781-1786 (2017)
43. Okamoto, M.*, Shirasu, M., Fujita, R., Hirasawa, Y., and Touhara, K. "Child odors and parenting: A survey examination of the role of odor in child-rearing" PLoS One 11(5):e0154392 (2016)
44. Sato-Akuhara, N., Horio, N., Kato-Namba, A., Yoshikawa, K., Niimura, Y., Ihara, S., Shirasu, M.*, and Touhara, K.* "Ligand specificity and evolution of mammalian musk odor receptors: the effect of single receptor deletion on odor detection" J. Neurosci. 36, 4482-4491 (2016)
45. Hattori, T., Osakada, T., Matsumoto, A., Matsuo, N., Haga-Yamanaka, S., Nishida, T., Mori, Y., Mogi, K., Touhara, K.* and Kikusui, T.* "Self-exposure to the male pheromone ESP1 enhances male aggressiveness in mice" Current Biology 26, 1229-1234 (2016)
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50. Kato, A., Reisert, J., Ihara, S., Yoshikawa, K., and Touhara, K.* "Evaluation of the Role of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 3 in Desensitization of Mouse Odorant Receptors in a Mammalian Cell Line and in Olfactory Sensory Neurons" Chemical Senses 39, 771-780 (2014)
51. Niimura, Y.*, Matsui, A., and Touhara, K. "Extreme expansion of the olfactory receptor gene repertoire in African elephants and evolutionary dynamics of orthologous gene groups in 13 placental mammals" Genome Research 24, 1485-1496 (2014)
52. Shirasu, M., Yoshikawa, K., Takai, Y. , Nakashima, A., Takeuchi, H., Sakano, H., and Touhara, K.* "Olfactory receptor and neural pathway responsible for highly selective sensing of musk odors" Neuron 81, 165-178 (2014)
53. Ferrero, D.M., Moeller, L.M., Osakada, T., Horio, N., Li, Q., Roy, D.S., Cichy, A., Spehr, M., Touhara, K., and Liberles, S.D.* "A juvenile mouse pheromone inhibits sexual behavior through the vomeronasal system" Nature 502, 368-371 (2013)
54. Kaneko-Goto, T.#, Sato, Y.#, Katada, S.#, Kinameri, E., Yoshihara, S., Nishiyori, A., Kimura, M., Fujita, H., Touhara, K., Reed, R.R., and Yoshihara, Y.* (# equal contribution) "Goofy coordinates the acuity of olfactory signaling" J. Neurosci. 33,12987-12996 (2013)
55. Nakagawa, T. and Touhara, K.* "Extracellular modulation of the silkmoth sex pheromone receptor activity by cyclic nucleotides" PLoS ONE 8(6), e63774 (2013)
56. Yoshinaga, S.#, Sato, T.#, Hirakane, M., Esaki, K., Hamaguchi, T., Haga-Yamanaka, S., Tsunoda, M., Kimoto, H., Shimada, I., Touhara, K., and Terasawa, H.* (# equal contribution) "Structure of the Mouse Sex Peptide Pheromone ESP1 Reveals a Molecular Basis for Specific Binding to the Class-C G-Protein-Coupled Vomeronasal Receptor" J. Biol. Chem. 288, 16064-16072 (2013)
57. Yoshikawa, K., Nakagawa, H., Mori, N., Watanabe, H., and Touhara, K.* "An unsaturated aliphatic alcohol as a natural ligand for a mouse odorant receptor" Nature Chem. Biol. 9, 160-162 (2013)
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