Publications

• Hori, S. and Mitani, S. (2023) An atonal homolog, lin-32, regulates hypodermal morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. MicroPubl Biol. 10.17912/micropub.biology.000754.
• Hori, S. and Mitani, S. (2022) The transcription factor unc-130/FOXD3/4 contributes to the biphasic calcium response required to optimize avoidance behavior. Sci Reports, 12, 1907.
• Hori, S., Oda, S., Suehiro, Y., Iino, U., and Mitani, S. (2018) OFF-responses of interneurons optimize avoidance behaviors depending on stimulus strength via electrical synapses. PLoS Genet. 14(6), e1007477.
• Dejima, K.^†, Hori, S. ^†, Iwata, S.^†, Suehiro, Y., Yoshina, S., Motohashi, T., and Mitani, S. (2018) An Aneuploidy-Free and Structurally Defined Balancer Chromosome Toolkit for Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell reports, 22(1), 232-241. ^†: equal contribution (Front cover. Faculty of 1000 Recommended Paper)
  
• Hori, S., Suehiro, Y., Yoshina, S., Mitani, S. (2017) Novel deletion alleles of a C. elegans gene Y48E1C.1, named as tm5468, tm5625 and tm5626. Micropublication: biology y. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17912/W2CQ14.
• Yoshina, S., Hori, S., Suehiro, Y., Mitani, S. (2017) Novel deletion alleles of a C. elegans gene C38D4.9, named as tm4476 and tm4561. Micropublication: biology. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17912/W2HH32.
• Suehiro, Y., Yoshina, S., Hori, S., Mitani, S. (2017) Novel deletion alleles of a C. elegans gene Y73E7A.1, named as tm6429 and tm6475. Micropublication: biology. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17912/W2808M.
• in Japanese (Educational Paper): 末廣 勇司, 榊 建二郎, 吉名 佐和子, 堀 沙耶香, 出嶋 克史, 岩田 悟, 三谷 昌平 (2017) ラットの坐骨神経と下肢骨格筋を用いた容積導体と神経―骨格筋間の信号伝達機構を学ぶ実習、日本生理学会誌、79(3), 44-48.（査読付き教育論文）
• Iwata, S., Yoshina, S., Hori, S., Suehiro, Y., and Mitani, S. (2016) Engineering new balancer chromosomes in C. elegans via CRISPR/Cas9. Sci Reports, 6, 33840.
• Miller-Fleming, T.W., Petersen, S.C., Manning, L., Matthewman, C., Gornet, M., Beers, A., Hori, S.,Mitani, S., Bianchi, L., Richmond, J., Miller, D.M. (2016) The DEG/ENaC cation channel protein UNC-8 drives activity-dependent synapse removal in remodeling GABAergic neurons. eLife, 5, e14599
• Kage-Nakadai, E., Imae, R., Suehiro, Y., Yoshina, S., Hori, S., and Mitani, S. (2014) A conditional knockout system for Caenorhabditis elegans that is based on the combination of Cre transgenic strains, deletion mutants, and UV/TMP integration methods.  PLoS ONE, 9(12), e114680. 
• Kawai, M., Futagami, T., Toyoda, A., Takaki, Y., Nishi, S., Hori, S., Arai, W., Tsubouchi, T., Morono, Y., Uchiyama, I., Itoh, T., Fujiyama, A., Inagaki, F., and Takami H. (2014) High frequency of phylogenetically diverse reductive dehalogenase-homologous genes in deep subseafloor sedimentary metagenomes. Frontiers in Extreme Microbiol, 5(80), 1-15.
• Hori, S.^*, Tsuchiya, M., Nishi, S., Arai, W., Yoshida, T., and Takami, H. (2013) Active bacterial flora surrounding foraminifera (xenophyophorea) living on the deep-sea floor. Biosci Biotech Biochem,77(2), 381-384.^*: corresponding author
• Smith, C.J., O’Brien, T., Chatzigeorgiou, M., Spencer, W.C., Feingold-Link, E., Husson, S.J.,Hori, S., Mitani, S., Gottschalk, A., Schafer, W.R., and Miller, D.M. (2013) Sensory neuron fates are distinguished by a transcriptional switch that regulates dendrite branch stabilization. Neuron, 79, 266-280.
• Kaneko, K., Ikeda, T.^†, Nagai, M.^†, Hori, S.^†, Umatani, C., Tadano, H., Ugajin, A., Nakakoka, T., Paul, R.K., Fujiyuki, T., Shirai, K., Kunieda, T., Takeuchi, H., and Kubo, T. (2013) Novel Middle-Type Kenyon Cells in the Honeybee Brain Revealed by Area-Preferential Gene Expression Analysis. PLoS ONE, 8, e71732. ^†: equal contribution
• Kage-Nakadai, E., Kobuna, H., Funatsu, O., Otori, M., Gengyo-Ando, K., Yoshina, S., Hori, S., and Mitani, S. (2012) Single/low-copy integration of transgenes in Caenorhabditis elegans using an ultraviolet trimethylpsoralen method. BMC Biotechnol, 12(1), 1.
• The C. elegans Deletion Mutant Consortium (2012) Large-Scale Screening for Targeted Knockouts in the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome. Genes Genomes Genetics, 2, 1415-1425.
• Hori, S. ^*, Kaneko, K., Saito, T., Takeuchi, H. and Kubo, T. (2011) Expression of two microRNAs, ame-mir-276 and -1000, in the adult honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) brain. Apidologie, 42(1), 89-102.^*: corresponding author
• Kaneko, K., Hori, S., Morimoto, M. M., Nakaoka, T., Paul, R. K., Fujiyuki, T., Shirai, K., Wakamoto, K., Tsuboko, S., Takeuchi, H. and Kubo, T. (2010) In situ hybridization analysis of the expression of futsch, tau, and MESK2 homologues in the brain of the European honeybee (Apis mellifera L.). PLoS ONE, 5(2), e9213.
• in Japanese (Review): 木矢 剛智、堀 沙耶香、竹内 英明、久保 健雄 (2008) ミツバチの“ダンスコミュニケーション”の神経基盤の理解にむけて　野外と室内に置ける新しい２つの実験系、蛋白質核酸酵素、53(11), 1368-1374.
• Hori, S., Takeuchi, H., and Kubo, T. (2007) Associative learning and discrimination of motion cues in the harnessed honeybee Apis mellifera L. J Comp Physiol, A 193(8), 825-833.
• Hori, S., Takeuchi, H., Arikawa, K., Kinoshita, M., Ichikawa, N., Sasaki, M., and Kubo, T. (2006) Associative visual learning, color discrimination, and chromatic adaptation in the harnessed honeybee Apis mellifera L. J. Comp.Physiol. A 192, 691-700. (Faculty of 1000 Recommended Paper)
• Nakata, A., Ito, T., Nagata, M., Hori, S. and Sekimizu, K. (2004) GRIP1τ, a novel PDZ domain-containing transcriptional activator, cooperates with the testis-specific transcription elongation factor SII-T1. Genes Cells. 9, 1125-1135.