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  • Yamaguchi A, Peltier M (2023) Two conserved vocal central pattern generators broadly tuned for fast and slow rates generate species-specific vocalizations in Xenopus clawed frogs.  eLife, doi: 10.7554/eLife.86299. PDF
  • Yamaguchi A (2021) Ex vivo brain preparation to Analyze vocal pathways of Xenopus frogs.  Cold Spring Harb Protoc doi:10.1101/pbd.prot106872. PDF
  • Inagaki RT, Raghuraman S, Leavitt L, Chase K, Zornik E, Olivera B, Yamaguchi A (2020) Molecular characterization of frog vocal neurons using pharmacological constellation.  J Neurophysiol 123: 2297-2310. PDF
  • Kelley DB, Ballagh IH, Barkan CL, Bendesky A, Elliott TM, Hall IC, Kwon YM, Kwong- Brown U, Leininger EC, Perez E, Rhodes, H, Yamaguchi A, Villain A, Zornik E (2020) Generation, coordination, and evolution of neural circuits for vocal communication. J. Neurosci. 40:22-36. PDF
  • Yamaguchi A (2019) Mechanisms of vocal production and motoneurons in frogs. In “Encyclopedia of animals and their sound”, p240 – 243, Asakura Publisher, Tokyo, Japan (In Japanese). PDF
  • Yamaguchi A, Woller DJ, Rodrigues P (2018) Development of an acute method to deliver transgenes into the brains of adult Xenopus laevis. Front Neur Circ doi: doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2018.00092. PDF
  • Lawton KJ, Perry WM, Yamaguchi A, Zornik E (2017) Motor neurons tune premotor activity in a vertebrate central pattern generator. J Neurosci DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2755-16.2017. PDF
  • Kelley DB, Elliott TM, Evans BJ, Hall IC, Leininger EC, Rhodes HJ, Yamaguchi A, Zornik E (2017) Probing forebrain to hindbrain circuit functions in Xenopus. Genesis doi: 10.1002/dvg.22999. PDF
  • Yamaguchi A, Cavin Barnes J, Appleby T (2016) Rhythm generation, coordination, and initiation in the vocal pathways of male African clawed frogs.  J Neurophysiol.  doi:10.1152/jn.00628.2016. PDF
  • Zornik, E. J. and A. Yamaguchi (2012) Coding rate and duration in courtship vocalizations of the frog, Xenopus laevis. J. Neurosci. 32:12102–12114. PDF
  • Zornik, E. J. and A. Yamaguchi (2011) Vocal pathway degradation in gonadectomized Xenopus laevis adults. J Neurophysiol 105:601-14. PDF
  • Yamaguchi. A., Munoz, M., Bose, T. J., Smith, S. (2010) Sexual differentiation of the vocal pathways during development in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Neurobiology, 70, 862-874. PDF
  • Zornik, E. J. Katzen, A. W., Rhodes, H. J., and A. Yamaguchi (2010) NMDAR-dependent control of call duration in Xenopus laevis. J Neurophysiol 103: 3501–3515. PDF
  • Yu, H. J., and A. Yamaguchi (2009) 5-HT2C–like receptors in the brain of Xenopus laevis initiate sex-typical fictive vocalizations. J Neurophysiol. 102:752-765. PDF
  • Yu, H. J. and A. Yamaguchi (2009) Endogenous serotonin initiates fictive vocalizations by activating 5-HT2C-like receptors in Xenopus laevis. J Neurophysiol 103: 648–658. PDF
  • Zornik, E. J. and A. Yamaguchi (2008) Sexually differentiated central pattern generators in Xenopus laevis. Trends in Neuroscience, 31, 296-302. PDF
  • Yamaguchi A, Herrold A, Patel S, Pong W, and Gooler D (2008) Temperature effects on vocal pattern generators in Xenopus laevis: implication for two independent CPGs. Journal of Neurophys. 100, 3134-3143. PDF
  • Rhodes, H. J., Yu, H. J., and A. Yamaguchi (2007) Xenopus vocalizations are controlled by a sexually differentiated hindbrain central pattern generator. J Neurosci. 27: 1485 – 1497. PDF
  • Potter, K. A., Bose, T. O., and A. Yamaguchi (2005) Androgen induced vocal transformation in adult African clawed frogs. J Neurophysiol. 94: 415-28. PDF
  • Yamaguchi, A., L. K. Kaczmarek, and D. B. Kelley (2003) Functional specialization of male and female vocal motoneurons. J Neurosci 23, 11568-11576. PDF
  • Yamaguchi, A. (2001) Sex differences in vocal learning. Nature, 411: 257-258. PDF
  • Yamaguchi, A., L. K. Kaczmarek, and D. B. Kelley (2000) Intrinsic membrane properties of laryngeal motoneurons that control sexually differentiated vocal behavior in African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis. Biol Bull, 199:175-6. PDF
  • Yamaguchi, A. and D. B. Kelley (2000) Generating sexually differentiated vocal patterns: laryngeal nerve and EMG recordings from vocalizing male and female African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). J Neurosci, 20: 1559-1567. PDF
  • Yamaguchi, A. (1999) Auditory experience does not shape sexual preferences for songs in female Northern cardinals. Behaviour 136:309-329. PDF
  • Yamaguchi, A. (1998) Can a sexually dimorphic learned birdsong be used for male- female recognition? Behaviour 135, 833-844. PDF
  • Yamaguchi, A. (1998) A sexually dimorphic learned birdsong: the Northern cardinal. Condor 100, 504-511. PDF
  • Okanoya and Yamaguchi (1997) Adult Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica) require real-time auditory feedback to produce normal song syntax. J. Neurobiol., 33, 343-356. PDF
  • Sakaguchi, H. & A. Yamaguchi (1997) Early song-deprivation affects the expression of protein kinase C in the song control nuclei of the zebra finch during a sensitive period of song learning. NeuroReport 8, 2645-2650. PDF