Kouhei TOGA

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Affiliation: Researcher, Hiroshima University

Researcher number: 10726798
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7244-5920
J-GLOBAL ID: 201601010918825095
researchmap Member ID: 7000015830

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Long-read genome assembly of the Japanese parasitic wasp Copidosoma floridanum (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

Kouhei Toga, Takuma Sakamoto, Miyuki Kanda, Keita Tamura, Keisuke Okuhara, Hiroko Tabunoki, Hidemasa Bono

bioRxiv, 2023.09.24.559078, Sep 25, 2023
Meta-Analysis of Public RNA Sequencing Data Revealed Potential Key Genes Associated with Reproductive Division of Labor in Social Hymenoptera and Termites

Kouhei Toga, Hidemasa Bono

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(9) 8353, May 6, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Meta-analysis of public RNA sequencing data of queens and workers in social Hymenoptera and termites

Kouhei Toga, Hidemasa Bono

bioRxiv, Nov 22, 2022
Meta-Analysis of Transcriptomes in Insects Showing Density-Dependent Polyphenism

Kouhei Toga, Kakeru Yokoi, Hidemasa Bono

Insects, Sep 23, 2022 Lead author
Comparison of gene expression profiles among caste differentiations in the termite Reticulitermes speratus.

Ryota Saiki, Yoshinobu Hayashi, Kouhei Toga, Hajime Yaguchi, Yudai Masuoka, Ryutaro Suzuki, Kokuto Fujiwara, Shuji Shigenobu, Kiyoto Maekawa

Scientific reports, 12(1) 11947-11947, Jul 13, 2022
The Mitochondrial Phosphatase PTPMT1 is Required for the Proper Growth Rate in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Yuri Homma, Tomohiro Inui, Takumi Kayukawa, Kouhei Toga, Tetsuro Shinoda, Toru Togawa

Zoological Science, 39(3) 236-241, Mar 1, 2022
Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: Gene duplication facilitates social evolution.

Shuji Shigenobu, Yoshinobu Hayashi, Dai Watanabe, Gaku Tokuda, Masaru Y Hojo, Kouhei Toga, Ryota Saiki, Hajime Yaguchi, Yudai Masuoka, Ryutaro Suzuki …

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(3), Jan 18, 2022
The draft genome sequence of Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus

Shinichi Morita, Tomoko F. Shibata, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Yuuki Kobayashi, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Kouhei Toga, Takahiro Ohde, Hiroki Gotoh, Takaaki Kojima, Jesse Weber …

Jan 12, 2022
ツヤケシオオゴミムシダマシの密度に依存した変態ではエクジステロイド量の調節が中心的な役割を担う

栂浩平, 本間悠里, 外川徹

比較内分泌学, 47(174) e0008, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Bumble bee queens activate dopamine production and gene expression in nutritional signaling pathways in the brain

Ken Sasaki, Kakeru Yokoi & Kouhei Toga

Scientific reports, 11(1), 2021
Control of the ecdysteroid level plays a crucial role in density-dependent metamorphosis in the giant mealworm beetle Zophobas atratus

Kouhei Toga, Yuri Homma, Toru Togawa

Developmental biology, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
A mitochondrial phosphatase PTPMT1 is essential for the early development of silkworm, Bombyx mori.

Yuri Homma, Kouhei Toga, Takaaki Daimon, Tetsuro Shinoda, Toru Togawa

Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 530(4) 713-718, Oct 1, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles.

Takahiro Ohde, Shinichi Morita, Shuji Shigenobu, Junko Morita, Takeshi Mizutani, Hiroki Gotoh, Robert A Zinna, Moe Nakata, Yuta Ito, Kenshi Wada …

PLoS genetics, 14(10) e1007651, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewed
A lipocalin protein, Neural Lazarillo, is key to social interactions that promote termite soldier differentiation.

Yaguchi H, Shigenobu S, Hayashi Y, Miyazaki S, Toga K, Masuoka Y, Maekawa K

Proceedings. Biological sciences, 285(1883), Jul, 2018 Peer-reviewed
TGFβ signaling related genes are involved in hormonal mediation during termite soldier differentiation.

Masuoka Y, Yaguchi H, Toga K, Shigenobu S, Maekawa K

PLoS genetics, 14(4) e1007338, Apr, 2018 Peer-reviewed
A crucial caste regulation gene detected by comparing termites and sister group cockroaches.

Masuoka Y, Toga K, Nalepa CA, Maekawa K

Genetics, 209(4) 1225-1234, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Caste-specific microRNA expression in termites: insights into soldier differentiation

Matsunami M, Nozawa M, Suzuki R, Toga K, Masuoka Y, Yamaguchi K, Maekawa K, Shigenobu S, Miura T

2018 Peer-reviewed
Soldiers are differentiated from male larval stages in incipient colonies of Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Isoptera: Termitidae)

Kouhei Toga, Chieka Minakuchi, Kiyoto Maekawa

Applied Entomology and Zoology, 52(2) 329-335, 2017 Lead authorCorresponding author
Sexual difference in juvenile-hormone titer in workers leads to sex-biased soldier differentiation in termites

Kouhei Toga, Shutaro Hanmoto, Ryutaro Suzuki, Dai Watanabe, Toru Miura, Kiyoto Maekawa

JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY, 87 63-70, Apr, 2016 Peer-reviewed
High juvenile hormone titre and abdominal activation of JH signalling may induce reproduction of termite neotenics

R. Saiki, H. Gotoh, K. Toga, T. Miura, K. Maekawa

INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 24(4) 432-441, Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

マルハナバチにおける脳内のドーパミン生産と栄養代謝系遺伝子の発現のカースト差

佐々木謙, 横井翔, 栂浩平

日本進化学会大会プログラム・講演要旨集(Web), 23rd, 2021
カイコガにおけるPTEN-like phosphatase(Plip)のin vivo機能解析

本間悠里, 浅野美和, 栂浩平, 篠田徹郎, 外川徹

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 63rd, 2019
bHLH転写因子遺伝子hairyの幼若ホルモンによる組織依存的な発現誘導

外川徹, 下段詩絵理, 成瀬佳奈, 粥川琢巳, 鈴木大己, 内田康介, 栂浩平, 篠田徹郎

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 63rd, 2019
ツヤケシオオゴミムシダマシの成虫の左右非対称な大顎形成におけるPairedの機能

栂浩平, 外川徹

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 62nd, 2018
bHLH転写因子hairyは幼若ホルモンによって組織特異的に誘導される

下段詩絵理, 粥川琢巳, 小山みど梨, 石野遥菜, 鈴木大己, 内田康介, 栂浩平, 篠田徹郎, 外川徹

日本蚕糸学会大会・蚕糸・昆虫機能学術講演会講演要旨集, 88th, 2018
幼若ホルモン生合成に関連する新規酵素遺伝子PTEN-like phosphatase(Plip)の機能解析

本間悠里, 栂浩平, 篠田徹郎, 外川徹

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 62nd, 2018
タカサゴシロアリの兵隊分化における生理・発生機構

栂浩平

昆虫と自然, 52(7) 41-42, Jun 23, 2017 Invited
カイコガのアラタ体で高発現するPTEN-like phosphatase(Plip)の機能解析

本間悠里, 栂浩平, 篠田徹郎, 外川徹

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 61st, 2017
タカサゴシロアリの兵隊分化におけるsmall-RNAシーケンス解析

栂浩平, 栂浩平, 水口智江可, 外川徹

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 61st, 2017
シロアリのカースト特異的な形態形成の分子機構

栂浩平,前川清人

生物科学, 68(3) 177-184, 2017 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
タカサゴシロアリの兵隊分化過程におけるRNAシーケンス解析

栂浩平, 栂浩平, 増岡裕大, 矢口甫, 水口智江可, 重信秀治, 前川清人

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 60th, 2016
フチグロトゲエダシャクにおける翅退縮機構の解明に向けて

新津修平, 新津修平, 栂浩平, 富塚茂和, 前川清人, 町田龍一郎, 上遠岳彦

昆虫DNA研究会ニュースレター, 25, 2016
シロアリ兵隊の頭部形成におけるホルモン受容体および形態形成遺伝子の機能解析

栂浩平, 新美輝幸, 柳沼利信, 前川清人

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 59th, 2015
タカサゴシロアリの兵隊がもつ防衛形態の形成機構．

栂浩平, 前川清人

比較内分泌学, 41(154) 32-34, 2015
シロアリ兵隊の武器形成におけるホルモン伝達因子及びHox遺伝子の役割

栂浩平, 前川清人

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 57th, 2013
昆虫の角の分子発生機構

栂浩平, 栂浩平, 前川清人, 柳沼利信, 新美輝幸

昆虫DNA研究会ニュースレター, 19, 2013
タカサゴシロアリの兵隊特異的な器官形成をもたらす分子発生機構

栂浩平, 前川清人

日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨, 56th, 2012
タカサゴシロアリの兵蟻に特異的な器官形成で見られる細胞増殖の制御

栂浩平, 前川清人

日本動物学会大会予稿集, 82nd, 2011
タカサゴシロアリの前兵蟻分化に伴う防衛器官の形成とDistal-less遺伝子の発現パターン

栂浩平, 北條優, 三浦徹, 前川清人

日本生態学会大会講演要旨集, 56th, 2009
シロアリにおける「ツノ」形成．

前川清人, 栂浩平

比較内分泌学, 35(133) 106-108, 2009

Books and Other Publications

Juvenile Hormones and Juvenoids: Modeling Biological Effects and Environmental Fate

Toga K, Maekawa K (Role: Contributor, Soldier-specific organ developments induced by a juvenile hormone analog in a nasute termite) (Original Author(s): Toga K and Maekawa K, Toga K and Maekawa K, Toga K and Maekawa K, Toga K and Maekawa K, Toga K and Maekawa K, Toga K and Maekawa K, Toga K and Maekawa K)

CRC Press, 2013

Presentations

RNAシーケンス解析によるツヤケシオオゴミムシダマシの左右非対称な大顎形成に関わる遺伝子の同定

日本動物学会関東支部第72回大会, Mar 14, 2020
ツヤケシオオゴミムシダマシにおける混み合いによる変態抑制に関わる遺伝子の探索

第90回日本動物学会, Sep 12, 2019
ツヤケシオオゴミムシダマシの成虫の大顎における左右非対称性に関わる遺伝子の探索

第89回日本動物学会, Sep 13, 2018

Research Projects

Regulation mechanisms of metamorphosis depending to crowded condition

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2021

TOGA Kouhei
シロアリの兵隊分化における幼若ホルモンによる分化運命決定に関する分子発生学的解析

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

TOGA Kouhei, MINAKUCHI Chieka
シロアリの兵隊分化の分子発生機構の解明

科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費, 特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

栂浩平
シロアリにおける兵蟻特異的な器官の発生機構の解明

科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費, 特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, 2012 - Mar, 2014

栂浩平
シロアリの兵隊における防衛物質合成器官の形成に関する進化発生学的研究

基礎科学研究助成, 住友財団

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