Publications

Toward mechanisms underlying the developmental hourglass: evolvability and phylotypic conservation

Implications From the Analogous Relationship Between Evolutionary and Learning Processes

On the Maxillofacial Development of Mice, Mus musculus

Maternal immune activation does not affect maternal microchimeric cells

Deciphering the origin of developmental stability: The role of intracellular expression variability in evolutionary conservation

Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences

Stability in gene expression and body-plan development leads to evolutionary conservation

Emergent roles of maternal microchimerism in postnatal development

Postnatal depletion of maternal cells biases T lymphocytes and natural killer cells' profiles toward early activation in the spleen

Whole-embryonic identification of maternal microchimeric cell types in mouse using single-cell RNA sequencing

The pentameric hydrocoel lobes organize adult pentameral structures in a sea cucumber, Apostichopus japonicus

Potential contribution of intrinsic developmental stability toward body plan conservation

Distinguishing Evolutionary Conservation from Derivedness

Whole embryonic detection of maternal microchimeric cells highlights significant differences in their numbers among individuals

Derivedness Index for Estimating Degree of Phenotypic Evolution of Embryos: A Study of Comparative Transcriptomic Analyses of Chordates and Echinoderms

Measuring potential effects of the developmental burden associated with the vertebrate notochord

The developmental hourglass model and recapitulation: An attempt to integrate the two models

How can recapitulation be reconciled with modern concepts of evolution?

Genomic insights of body plan transitions from bilateral to pentameric symmetry in Echinoderms

Toward understanding of evolutionary constraints: experimental and theoretical approaches

The developmental transcriptome for Lytechinus variegatus exhibits temporally punctuated gene expression changes

Recapitulation-like developmental transitions of chromatin accessibility in vertebrates

The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition

Embryonic lethality is not sufficient to explain hourglass-like conservation of vertebrate embryos

Constrained vertebrate evolution by pleiotropic genes

Centromere evolution and CpG methylation during vertebrate speciation

Functional roles of Aves class-specific cis-regulatory elements on macroevolution of bird-specific features

Weighted gene co-expression network analysis reveals potential genes involved in early metamorphosis process in sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus

Remaining questions related to the hourglass model in vertebrate evolution

Unexpected link between polyketide synthase and calcium carbonate biomineralization

Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs

The developmental hourglass model: a predictor of the basic body plan?

The Evolutionary Origin of the Vertebrate Body Plan: The Problem of Head Segmentation

Turtle ghrelin

The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals vertebrate phylotypic period during organogenesis

Reviews of Biliary Atresia: A New Immunological Insight on Etiopathogenesis

Maternal HLA class I compatibility in patients with biliary atresia

Maternal Microchimerism in Underlying Pathogenesis of Biliary Atresia: Quantification and Phenotypes of Maternal Cells in the Liver

The vertebrate phylotypic stage and an early bilaterian-related stage in mouse embryogenesis defined by genomic information

Fused protein of PKC activation loop and PDK1-interacting fragment (AL-PIF) functions as a pseudosubstrate and an inhibitory molecule for PDK1 when expressed in cells

Essential roles of Meltrin beta (ADAM19) in heart development

Subtype- and species-specific knockdown of PKC using short interfering RNA