Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

  1. Sakai, Y., H. H. Yamamoto, S. Maruyama. (2024) Long-term aquarium records delineate the synchronized spawning strategy of Acropora corals. Royal Society Open Science, 11:240183, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240183
  2. Mason, Benjamin M., Mitsumasa Koyanagi, Tomohiro Sugihara, Makoto Iwasaki, Vladlen Slepak, David J. Miller, Yusuke Sakai, Akihisa Terakita. (2023) Multiple opsins in a reef-building coral, Acropora millepora. Scientidic Reports, 13:1628, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28476-5
  3. Andrew H. Baird, Alasdair J. Edwards, James R. Guest, Saki Harii, Masayuki Hatta, Liam Lachs, Hanaka Mera, Frederic Sinniger, David Abrego, Or Ben-Zvi, Omri Bronstein, Patrick C. Cabaitan, Vivian R. Cumbo, Gal Eyal, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Bar Feldman, Joana Figueiredo, Jean-François Flot, Mila Grinblat, Andrew Heyward, Michio Hidaka, Mamiko Hirose, Akira Iguchi, Naoko Isomura, Robert A. Kinzie, Seiya Kitanobo, Alyson Kuba, Oren Levy, Yossi Loya, Takuma Mezaki, Amin R. Mohamed, Masaya Morita, Satoshi Nojima, Yoko Nozawa, Rian Prasetia, Eneour Puill-Stephan, Catalina Ramirez-Portilla, Hanna Rapuano, Yaeli Rosenberg, Yusuke Sakai, Kazuhiko Sakai, Tom Shlesinger, Tullia I. Terraneo, Irina Yakovleva, Hiromi H. Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Yamazato. (2021) A coral spawning calendar for Sesoko Station, Okinawa, Japan. Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies, 24:41-49, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3755/galaxea.G2021_S10O
  4. Sakai, Y., K. Kato, H. Koyama, A. Kuba, H. Takahashi, T. Fujimori, M. Hatta, A. P. Negri, A. H. Baird, N. Ueno. (2020) A step-down photophobic response in coral larvae: implications for the light-dependent distribution of the common reef coral, Acropora tenuis. Scientific Reports, 10:17680, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74649-x
  5. Sakai, Y., M. Hatta, S. Furukawa, N. Ueno, M. Kawata, S. Maruyma. (2020) Environmental factors explain spawning day deviation from full moon in the scleractinian coral Acropora. Biology Letters, 16:20190760, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0760
  6. Sakai, Y., S. Kawamura, M. Kawata (2018) Genetic and plastic variation in opsin gene expression, light sensitivity, and female response to visual signals in the guppy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America72:2449–2461, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706730115
  7. Arai, E., M. Hasegawa, T. Makino, A. Hagino, Y. Sakai, H. Ohtsuki, K. Wakamatsu and M. Kawata (2017) Physiological conditions and genetic controls of phaeomelanin pigmentation in nestling barn swallows. Behavioral Ecology28:706–716, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx012
  8. Sakai, Y., H. Ohtsuki, S. Kasagi, S. Kawamura and M. Kawata (2016) Effects of light environment during growth on the expression of cone opsin genes and behavioral spectral sensitivities in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). BMC Evolutionary Biology16:106, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0679-z