Dr. Masakane Yamashita (Department of Biological Sciences) won the Zoological Science Award 2015 from the Zoological Society of Japan.

Direction-specific adaptation in neuronal and behavioral responses of an insect mechanosensory system

Diurnal oscillation of vocal development associated with clustered singing by juvenile songbirds

These Birds Got Rhythm

Critical evidence for the prediction error theory in associative learning

Audition-independent vocal crystallization associated with intrinsic developmental gene expression dynamics

Mutations in the testis-specific enhancer of SOX9 in the SRY independent sex-determining mechanism in the genus Tokudaia

Cyclin B1 mRNA translation is temporally controlled through formation and disassembly of RNA granules

Dr.Yoshitaka Hamanaka (Department of Biological Sciences) won the "Narishige Zoological Science Award" from the Zoological Society of Japan.

Differential androgen receptor expression and DNA methylation state in striatum song nucleus Area X between wild and domesticated songbird strains

Dr.Kuroiwa Asato(Department of Biological Sciences) won The Young Scientists’ Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Chicken hemogen homolog is involved in the chicken specific sex determining mechanism

Thyroid hormone determines the start of the sensitive period of imprinting and primes later learning