K
Kazue Usui-Aoki
Researcher at Waseda University
Publications - 8
Citations - 387
Kazue Usui-Aoki is an academic researcher from Waseda University. The author has contributed to research in topics: fruitless & Drosophila melanogaster. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 8 publications receiving 361 citations. Previous affiliations of Kazue Usui-Aoki include University of Hawaii & Mitsubishi.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Formation of the male-specific muscle in female Drosophila by ectopic fruitless expression.
Kazue Usui-Aoki,Kazue Usui-Aoki,Hiroki Ito,Kumiko Ui-Tei,Kuniaki Takahashi,Kuniaki Takahashi,Tamas Lukacsovich,Tamas Lukacsovich,Wakae Awano,Hiromi Nakata,Zheng Fu Piao,Eric E. Nilsson,Junya Tomida,Daisuke Yamamoto,Daisuke Yamamoto +14 more
TL;DR: It is shown here that the Fru protein is not detected in the female central nervous system (CNS), despite the similar level of expression of fru mRNA in both male and female CNS.
Journal ArticleDOI
Mutations in the Novel Membrane Protein Spinster Interfere with Programmed Cell Death and Cause Neural Degeneration in Drosophila melanogaster
Yoshiro Nakano,Kazuko Fujitani,Joyce Kurihara,Janet Ragan,Kazue Usui-Aoki,Lori Shimoda,Tamas Lukacsovich,Keiko Suzuki,Keiko Suzuki,Mariko Sezaki,Yumiko Sano,Ryu Ueda,Wakae Awano,Mizuho Kaneda,Masato Umeda,Daisuke Yamamoto,Daisuke Yamamoto +16 more
TL;DR: Analysis of the spin mutant will give new insights into neurodegenerative diseases and aging.
Journal ArticleDOI
Targeted expression of Ip3 sponge and Ip3 dsRNA impaires sugar taste sensation in Drosophila.
Kazue Usui-Aoki,Ken Matsumoto,Masayuki Koganezawa,Sou Kohatsu,Kunio Isono,Hiroshi Matsubayashi,Masa Toshi Yamamoto,Ryu Ueda,Kuniaki Takahashi,Kaoru Saigo,Katsuhiko Mikoshiba,Daisuke Yamamoto +11 more
TL;DR: The result indicates that IP3 signaling is indispensable for sugar reception in Drosophila.
Journal ArticleDOI
Fruitless is in the Regulatory Pathway by Which Ectopic Mini-White and Transformer Induce Bisexual Courtship in Drosophila
Eric E. Nilsson,Zoltan Asztalos,Tamas Lukacsovich,Wakae Awano,Kazue Usui-Aoki,Daisuke Yamamoto +5 more
TL;DR: Experiments demonstrated that fru shares a pathway controlling courtship behavior with these ectopically expressed genes, indicating that the fru wild-type function is necessary for expression of the ectopic mw and ectopic tra effect.
Journal ArticleDOI
Species-specific patterns of sexual dimorphism in the expression of fruitless protein, a neural musculinizing factor in Drosophila.
TL;DR: Results indicate that sexually dimorphic expression of the Fru protein has been subjected to species-specific modulation during evolution.