Publications

A neural circuit for male sexual behavior and reward. Cell, 2023 Aug, 186, 1–20. Bayless DW, Davis CO, Yang R, ..., Ding JB, Luo L, Shah NM [pdf]

Hypothamlamic neurons that mirror aggression. Cell, 2023 Feb, 186, 1-17. Yang T, Bayless DW, Wei Y, ..., Luo L, Druckmann S, and Shah NM [pdf]

Oxytocin receptor is not required for social attachment in prairie voles. Neuron, 2023 Jan, 111, 1–10. Berendzen K, Sharma R, Alvarado Mandujano M, Wei Y...,
Bales KL, Shah NM, and Manoli DS.  [pdf]

A functional cellular framework for sex and estrous cycle-dependent gene expression and behavior. Cell. 2022 Jan, 185, e1–e18. Knoedler J, Inoue S, Bayless DW, Yang T, Tantry A, Davis CH, Leung NY, Parthasarathy S, Wang G, Alvarado M, Rizvi A, Fenno LE, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, and Shah NM.
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• Periodic Remodeling in a Neural Circuit Governs Timing of Female Sexual Behavior. Cell. 2019 Nov, 179(6):1393-1408. Inoue S, Yang R, Tantry A, Davis CH, Yang T, Knoedler JR, Wei Y, Adams EL, Thombare S, Golf SR, Neve RL, Tessier-Lavigne M, Ding JB, and Shah NM. [pdf]
  
• Evolution of Mechanisms that Control Mating in Drosophila Males. Cell Rep. 2019 May, 27(9):2527-2536. Ahmed OM, Avila-Herrera A, Tun KM, Serpa PH, Peng J, Parthasarathy S, Knapp JM, Stern DL, Davis GW, Pollard KS,  and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Limbic Neurons Shape Sex Recognition and Social Behavior in Sexually Naive Males.  Cell (2019). Bayless DW, Yang T, Mason M, Susanto A, Lobdell A, and Shah N.  [pdf]
  
• Social control of hypothalamus-mediated male aggression.  Neuron, 95:955-970 (2017).  Yang T, Yang CF, Chizari MD, Maheswaranathan N, Burke KJ, Borius M, Inoue S, Chiang MC, Bender KJ, Ganguli S, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Identification of a motor-to-auditory pathway important for vocal learning.  Nat Neurosci, 20:978-986  (2017).  Roberts TF, Hisey E, Tanaka M, Kearney MG, Chattree G, Yang CF, Shah NM, and Mooney R.  [pdf]
• Molecular and neural control of sexually dimorphic behaviors.  Curr Opin Neurobiol, 38:89-95 (2016).  Yang T, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Genetic dissection of neural circuits underlying sexually dimorphic social behaviors.  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371:pii20150109 (2016).  Bayless DW, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Retinofugal projections from melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells revealed by intraocular injections of Cre-dependent virus.  PLoS One, 11(2):e0149501 (2016).  Delwig A, Larsen DD, Yasumara D, Yang CF, Shah NM, and Copenhagen DR.  [pdf]
• Specification of select hypothalamic circuits and innate behaviors by the embryonic patterning gene dbx1.  Neuron, 86:403-416 (2015).  Sokolowski K, Esumi S, Hirata T, Kamal Y, Tran T, Lam A, Oboti L, Brighthaupt S-C, Zaghlula M, Martinez J, Ghimbovschi S, Knoblach S, Pierani A, Tamamaki N, Shah NM, Jones KS, and Corbin JG.  [pdf]
• Sex-dependent changes in metabolism and behavior, as well as reduce anxiety after eliminating ventromedial hypothalamus excitatory output.  Mol Metab, 4:857-866 (2015).  Cheung CC, Krause WC, Edwards RH, Yang CF, Shah NM, Hnaskao TS, and Ingraham HA.  [pdf]
• Medial amygdalar neurons regulate aggresion in both sexes.  Cell Reports, 10:453-462 (2015).  Unger EK, Burke KJ, Yang CF, Bender KJ, Fuller PM, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Spontaneous emergence of overgrown molar teeth in a colony of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).  Int J Oral Science, 7:23-26 (2015).  Jheon AH, Prochazkova M, Sherman M, Manoli DS, Shah NM, Carbone L, and Klein O.  [pdf]
• Turning ON caspases with genetics and small molecules.  Methods Enzymol, 544:179-213 (2014).  Morgan CW, Julien O, Unger EK, Shah NM*, and Wells JA*.    *Co-corresponding authors.  [pdf]
• Representing sex in the brain, one module at a time.  Neuron, 82:261-278 (2014).  Yang CF and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Striatal cholinergic interneurons drive GABA release from dopamine terminals.  Neuron, 82:63-70 (2014).  Nelson AB, Hammack N, Yang CF, Shah NM, Seal RP, and Kreitzer AC.   [pdf]
• Complex chemosensory control of female reproductive behaviors.  PLoS One, 9(2): e90368 (2014).  Fraser EF and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Genetic and neural mechanisms that inhibit Drosophila from mating with other species.   Cell, 154:89-102 (2013).  Fan P, Manoli DS, Ahmed OM, Chen Y, Agarwal N, Kwong S, Cai AG, Neitz J, Renslo A, Baker BS, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Sexually dimorphic neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus govern mating in both sexes and aggression in males.  Cell, 153:896-909 (2013).  Yang CF, Chiang M, Gray DC, Prabhakaran M, Alvarado M, Juntti SA, Unger EK, Wells JA, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Neural control of sexually dimorphic behaviors.  Curr Opin Neurobiol, 23:330-338 (2013).  Manoli DS, Fan P, Fraser EJ, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from the prairie vole.  PLoS One, 7(5):e38119 (2012).  Manoli DS, Subramanyam D, Carey C, Sudin E, Van Westerhuyzen JA, Bales KL, Blelloch R and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Modular genetic control of sexually dimorphic behaviors.  Cell, 148:596-607 (2012).  Xu X, Coats JK, Yang CF, Wang A, Ahmed OA, Alvarado M, Izumi T, and Shah NM.   [pdf]
• Restriction of Trpv1 to the peptidergic subset of primary afferent neurons follows it developmental downregulation in nonpeptidergic neurons.  J Neurosci, 31:10119-10127 (2011).  Cavanaugh D, Chesler A, Braz J, Shah NM, Julius D, and Basbaum AI.  [pdf]
• Trpv1 reporter mice reveal highly restricted brain distribution and functional expression in arteriolar smooth muscle cells.  J Neurosci, 31:5067-5077 (2011).  Cavanaugh D, Chesler A, Jackson A, Sigal Y, Yamanak H, Grant R, O’Donnell D, Nicoll R, Shah NM, Julius D, and Basbaum AI.  [pdf]
• Control of masculinization of the brain and behavior.  Curr Opin Neurobiol, 21:116-123 (2011).  Wu MV and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• The androgen receptor governs the execution, but not programming, of male sexual and territorial behaviors.    Neuron, 66:260-272 (2010).  Juntti SA, Tollkuhn J, Wu MV, Fraser EJ, Soderborg T, Tan S, Honda SI, Harada N, and Shah, NM.  [pdf]
• A custody battle for the mind: evidence for extensive imprinting in the brain.  Neuron, 67:359-362 (2010).  Tollkuhn J, Xu X, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Estrogen masculinizes neural pathways and sex specific behaviors.  Cell, 139: 61-72 (2009).  Wu MV, Manoli DS, Fraser EJ, Coats JK, Tollkuhn J, Honda SI, Harada N, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• A genetic approach to dissect sexually dimorphic behaviors.    Horm Behav, 53:627-637 (2008).  Juntti SA, Coats JK, and Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Abnormal social behaviors in mice lacking Fgf17.  Genes, Brain Behav, 7:344-354 (2008).  Scearce-Levie K, Roberson ED, Gerstein H, Cholfin J, Mandiyan VS, Shah NM, Rubenstein JLR, and Mucke L.  [pdf]
• Females can also be from Mars.  Nature, 448:999-1000 (2007).  Shah NM and Breedlove SM.  [pdf]
• Nursing behavior:  Remembrance of things past.  Curr Biol, 16:R842-R844 (2006).  Shah NM.  [pdf]
• Deficits in sexual and aggressive behaviors in Cnga2 mutant mice.  Nat Neurosci,  8:1660-1662 (2005).  Mandiyan VS, Coats JK, and Shah NM.  [pdf]

• Visualizing sexual dimorphism in the brain.  Neuron, 43:313-319 (2004).  Shah NM, Pisapia DJ, Maniatis S, Mendelsohn M, Nemes A, and Axel R.  [pdf]
• Axonal ephrin-As and odorant receptors: coordinate determination of the olfactory sensory map.  Cell, 114:311-322 (2003).  Cutforth T, Moring L, Mendelsohn M, Nemes A, Shah NM, Kim M, Frisen J, and Axel R.  [pdf]

• Cell lineage determination and the control of neuronal identity in the neural crest.  Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol, 62: 493-504 (1997).  Anderson DJ, Groves A, Lo L, Ma Q, Rao M, Shah NM, and Sommer L.  [pdf]
• Regulatory mechanisms in stem cell biology.  Cell, 88: 287-298 (1997).  Morrison SJ, Shah NM, and Anderson DJ.  [pdf]
• Integration of multiple instructive cues by neural crest stem cells reveals cell-intrinsic biases in relative growth factor responsiveness.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 94: 11369-11374 (1997).  Shah NM and Anderson DJ.  [pdf]
• Alternative neural crest cell fates are instructively promoted by TGF superfamily members.  Cell, 85: 331-343 (1996).  Shah NM, Groves AK, and Anderson DJ.  [pdf]
• The cellular function of MASH1 in autonomic neurogenesis.  Neuron, 15: 1245-1258 (1995).  Sommer L, Shah NM, Rao M, and Anderson DJ.  [pdf]
• Glial Growth Factor restricts mammalian neural crest stem cells to a glial fate.  Cell, 77: 349-360 (1994).  Shah NM, Marchionni MA, Isaacs I, Stroobant P, and Anderson DJ.  [pdf]