List of works - Shigeru Kuratani

A new evolutionary scenario for the vertebrate jaw

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

A new scenario of the evolutionary derivation of the mammalian diaphragm from shoulder muscles ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: May 2013)

A novel transgenic technique that allows specific marking of the neural crest cell lineage in mice

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Alternate expression of the HNK-1 epitope in rhombomeres of the chick embryo

scientific article

Amphioxus mouth after dorso-ventral inversion.

scientific article

An eye on the head: the development and evolution of craniofacial muscles

scientific article published on June 2011

Ancestral mesodermal reorganization and evolution of the vertebrate head

scientific article

Autopodial development in the sea turtles Chelonia mydas and Caretta caretta

scientific article

Body plan of turtles: an anatomical, developmental and evolutionary perspective.

scientific article published on December 2011

Brain segmentation and trigeminal projections in the lamprey; with reference to vertebrate brain evolution

scientific article

Broken colinearity of the amphioxus Hox cluster.

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Capacity of neural crest cells from various axial levels to participate in thymic development

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Cephalic neural crest cells and the evolution of craniofacial structures in vertebrates: morphological and embryological significance of the premandibular-mandibular boundary

scientific article

Cloning and analysis of a new developmentally regulated member of the basic helix-loop-helix family

scientific article published on November 1994

Comparative analysis of pleurodiran and cryptodiran turtle embryos depicts the molecular ground pattern of the turtle carapacial ridge.

scientific article

Comparative morphology and development of extra-ocular muscles in the lamprey and gnathostomes reveal the ancestral state and developmental patterns of the vertebrate head

scientific article

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals vertebrate phylotypic period during organogenesis ⬇️

scientific article

Compartments in the lamprey embryonic brain as revealed by regulatory gene expression and the distribution of reticulospinal neurons

scientific article

Comprehensive survey of carapacial ridge-specific genes in turtle implies co-option of some regulatory genes in carapace evolution.

scientific article

Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution

scientific article

Craniofacial development and the evolution of the vertebrates: the old problems on a new background

scientific article

Craniofacial development of hagfishes and the evolution of vertebrates.

scientific article published on 19 December 2012

Cyclostome embryology and early evolutionary history of vertebrates.

scientific article

Cyclostome studies in the context of vertebrate evolution

scientific article published in October 2008

Development and evolution of the lateral plate mesoderm: comparative analysis of amphioxus and lamprey with implications for the acquisition of paired fins.

scientific article

Development of cephalic neural crest cells in embryos of Lampetra japonica, with special reference to the evolution of the jaw.

scientific article published in March 1999

Development of head and trunk mesoderm in the dogfish, Scyliorhinus torazame: I. Embryology and morphology of the head cavities and related structures

scientific article published in May 2012

Development of lamprey mucocartilage and its dorsal-ventral patterning by endothelin signaling, with insight into vertebrate jaw evolution

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Development of the adenohypophysis in the lamprey: evolution of epigenetic patterning programs in organogenesis.

scientific article published on December 2003

Development of the chondrocranial base of the musk shrew, Suncus murinus (Insectivora).

scientific article published in April 1995

Development of the chondrocranium in hagfishes, with special reference to the early evolution of vertebrates

scientific article published in November 2013

Development of the head and trunk mesoderm in the dogfish, Scyliorhinus torazame: II. Comparison of gene expression between the head mesoderm and somites with reference to the origin of the vertebrate head

scientific article published in May 2012

Development of the thalamo-dorsal ventricular ridge tract in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis.

scientific article published on 14 December 2014

Developmental and evolutionary significance of the mandibular arch and prechordal/premandibular cranium in vertebrates: revising the heterotopy scenario of gnathostome jaw evolution

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Developmental biology of hagfishes, with a report on newly obtained embryos of the Japanese inshore hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri

scientific article published on October 2008

Developmental fates of shark head cavities reveal mesodermal contributions to tendon progenitor cells in extraocular muscles

scientific article published on 15 February 2021

Developmental genetic bases behind the independent origin of the tympanic membrane in mammals and diapsids

scientific article

Developmental mechanisms of the tympanic membrane in mammals and non-mammalian amniotes

scientific article

Developmental morphology of the head mesoderm and reevaluation of segmental theories of the vertebrate head: evidence from embryos of an agnathan vertebrate, Lampetra japonica

scientific article published on June 1999

Developmental studies on the vertebrate head evolution

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Dual origins of the prechordal cranium in the chicken embryo

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

Early development of the facial nerve in the chick embryo with special reference to the development of the chorda tympani

scientific article published on 01 June 1988

Early development of the hypoglossal nerve in the chick embryo as observed by the whole-mount nerve staining method

scientific article published in June 1988

Ectodermally derived FGF8 defines the maxillomandibular region in the early chick embryo: epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in the specification of the craniofacial ectomesenchyme

scientific article

Embryology of the lamprey and evolution of the vertebrate jaw: insights from molecular and developmental perspectives

scientific article

Evidence from cyclostomes for complex regionalization of the ancestral vertebrate brain

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

Evolution and development of ventricular septation in the amniote heart

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Evolution and developmental patterning of the vertebrate skeletal muscles: perspectives from the lamprey

scientific article

Evolution of Otx paralogue usages in early patterning of the vertebrate head

scientific article published on 26 September 2008

Evolution of oropharyngeal patterning mechanisms involving Dlx and endothelins in vertebrates.

scientific article published on 18 February 2010

Evolution of retinoic acid receptors in chordates: insights from three lamprey species, Lampetra fluviatilis, Petromyzon marinus, and Lethenteron japonicum

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Evolution of the Vertebrate Cranium: Viewed from Hagfish Developmental Studies

scientific article published on June 2016

Evolution of the brain developmental plan: Insights from agnathans

scientific article

Evolution of the nitric oxide synthase family in vertebrates and novel insights in gill development

scientific article published in 2022

Evolution of the regionalization and patterning of the vertebrate telencephalon: what can we learn from cyclostomes?

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

Evolution of the turtle body plan by the folding and creation of new muscle connections.

scientific article published in July 2009

Evolution of the vertebral formulae in mammals: a perspective on developmental constraints

scientific article

Evolution of the vertebrate jaw from developmental perspectives ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Evolution of the vertebrate jaw: comparative embryology and molecular developmental biology reveal the factors behind evolutionary novelty

scientific article (publication date: November 2004)

Evolution of the vertebrate neurocranium: problems of the premandibular domain and the origin of the trabecula

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Evolution of the vertebrate skeleton: morphology, embryology, and development

scientific article

Evolution. A muscular perspective on vertebrate evolution

scientific article published in July 2013

Evolutionary and developmental understanding of the spinal accessory nerve

scientific article

Evolutionary biology: lamprey Hox genes and the evolution of jaws.

scientific article published in May 2004

Evolutionary developmental perspective for the origin of turtles: the folding theory for the shell based on the developmental nature of the carapacial ridge.

scientific article published on January 2011

Evolutionary developmental studies of cyclostomes and the origin of the vertebrate neck

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

Evolutionary divergence of trigeminal nerve somatotopy in amniotes

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

Evolutionary embryology resurrected in Japan with a new molecular basis: Nori Satoh and the history of ascidian studies originating in Kyoto during the 20th century

scientific article published in January 2006

Evolutionary perspectives from development of mesodermal components in the lamprey

scientific article published on September 2007

Expansion of the neck reconstituted the shoulder-diaphragm in amniote evolution.

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

Expansions, diversification, and interindividual copy number variations of AID/APOBEC family cytidine deaminase genes in lampreys

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Expression and interaction of muscle-related genes in the lamprey imply the evolutionary scenario for vertebrate skeletal muscle, in association with the acquisition of the neck and fins.

scientific article published on 28 October 2010

Expression of Sox and fibrillar collagen genes in lamprey larval chondrogenesis with implications for the evolution of vertebrate cartilage

scientific article

Expression of foreign genes in lamprey embryos: an approach to study evolutionary changes in gene regulation

scientific article published in April 2003

Expression of the Kallmann syndrome gene in human fetal brain and in the manipulated chick embryo

scientific article published in October 1994

Expression of thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1) gene in the ventral forebrain and endostyle of the agnathan vertebrate, Lampetra japonica

scientific article published in June 2001

Expression pattern of the Kallmann syndrome gene in the olfactory system suggests a role in neuronal targeting

scientific article published in May 1993

Expression pattern of two collagen type 2 alpha1 genes in the Japanese inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri) with special reference to the evolution of cartilaginous tissue

scientific article published in March 2010

Genome-wide detection of gene extinction in early mammalian evolution.

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Hagfish (cyclostomata, vertebrata): searching for the ancestral developmental plan of vertebrates

scientific article

Hagfish embryology with reference to the evolution of the neural crest.

scientific article published on 18 March 2007

Head segmentation in vertebrates

scientific article published on 25 October 2008

Hepatocyte growth factor is crucial for development of the carapace in turtles

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Heterotopic shift of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in vertebrate jaw evolution.

scientific article

Highly conserved linkage homology between birds and turtles: bird and turtle chromosomes are precise counterparts of each other.

scientific article published on 21 September 2005

History of studies on mammalian middle ear evolution: a comparative morphological and developmental biology perspective

scientific article published on September 2010

How can recapitulation be reconciled with modern concepts of evolution?

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Hox code in embryos of Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis correlates with the evolutionary innovation in the turtle

scientific article published in March 2005

Hox gene expression patterns in Lethenteron japonicum embryos--insights into the evolution of the vertebrate Hox code

scientific article published on 17 May 2007

Identification and developmental expression of two Tbx1/10-related genes in the agnathan Lethenteron japonicum

article

Identification of four Engrailed genes in the Japanese lamprey, Lethenteron japonicum

scientific article published in June 2008

Identification of vertebra-like elements and their possible differentiation from sclerotomes in the hagfish

scientific article

Impaired development of the thymic primordium after neural crest ablation

scientific article

Inference of the protokaryotypes of amniotes and tetrapods and the evolutionary processes of microchromosomes from comparative gene mapping

scientific article

Inhibition of epibranchial placode-derived ganglia in the developing rat by bisdiamine

scientific article published on 01 August 1992

Initial migration and distribution of the cardiac neural crest in the avian embryo: an introduction to the concept of the circumpharyngeal crest

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

Insights into neural crest migration and differentiation from experimental embryology

scientific article published in May 2009

Involvement of Hedgehog and FGF signalling in the lamprey telencephalon: evolution of regionalization and dorsoventral patterning of the vertebrate forebrain.

scientific article published in March 2011

Is the vertebrate head segmented?-evolutionary and developmental considerations

scientific article published on 17 April 2008

Isolation of Dlx and Emx gene cognates in an agnathan species, Lampetra japonica, and their expression patterns during embryonic and larval development: conserved and diversified regulatory patterns of homeobox genes in vertebrate head evolution.

scientific article

Lamprey as an evo-devo model: lessons from comparative embryology and molecular phylogenetics

scientific article

Late development of hagfish vertebral elements

scientific article (publication date: May 2013)

Launch of Zoological Letters.

scientific article

Mechanisms of heart development in the Japanese lamprey, Lethenteron japonicum

scientific article published in January 2010

Migration and distribution of circumpharyngeal crest cells in the chick embryo. Formation of the circumpharyngeal ridge and E/C8+ crest cells in the vertebrate head region

scientific article

Modularity, comparative embryology and evo-devo: developmental dissection of evolving body plans

scientific article published on 23 May 2009

Mouse Otx2 functions in the formation and patterning of rostral head

scientific article published in November 1995

Non-parsimonious evolution of hagfish Dlx genes ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 19 January 2013)

Noncanonical role of Hox14 revealed by its expression patterns in lamprey and shark.

scholarly article

On the carapacial ridge in turtle embryos: its developmental origin, function and the chelonian body plan.

scientific article published on 16 May 2007

On the homology of the shoulder girdle in turtles.

scientific article

On the maxillary nerve

scientific article

On the origin of vertebrate somites

scientific article published on 26 November 2015

On the peculiar morphology and development of the hypoglossal, glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves and hypobranchial muscles in the hagfish

scientific article

On the vagal cardiac nerves, with special reference to the early evolution of the head-trunk interface

scientific article published on 23 May 2016

Origin of the unique morphology of the shoulder girdle in turtles

scientific article (publication date: December 2013)

Otx cognates in a lamprey, Lampetra japonica

scientific article published in June 1998

Otx1 function overlaps with Otx2 in development of mouse forebrain and midbrain

scientific article

Overview of the transcriptome profiles identified in hagfish, shark, and bichir: current issues arising from some nonmodel vertebrate taxa

scientific article

Palaeontology: Getting the measure of a monster

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Palaeospondylus as a primitive hagfish

scientific article

Pax1/Pax9-Related genes in an agnathan vertebrate, Lampetra japonica: expression pattern of LjPax9 implies sequential evolutionary events toward the gnathostome body plan

scientific article

Peripheral development of avian trigeminal nerves

scientific article published on January 1990

Primitive versus derived traits in the developmental program of the vertebrate head: views from cyclostome developmental studies

scientific article published on June 2008

Region-specific expression of murine Hox genes implies the Hox code-mediated patterning of the digestive tract

scientific article published in January 1998

Rostral truncation of a cyclostome, Lampetra japonica, induced by all-trans retinoic acid defines the head/trunk interface of the vertebrate body ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Segmental development of reticulospinal and branchiomotor neurons in lamprey: insights into the evolution of the vertebrate hindbrain.

scientific article

Skeletal development in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis (Testudines: Trionychidae).

scientific article

Spatiotemporal expression patterns of chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter-transcription factors in the developing mouse central nervous system: evidence for a role in segmental patterning of the diencephalon

scientific article

Special issue featuring Zoological Society Award reviews

scientific article published in October 2014

The Dlx genes as clues to vertebrate genomics and craniofacial evolution.

scientific article published on 03 January 2013

The appearance of trigeminal ectopic ganglia within the surface ectoderm in the chick embryo

scientific article published on 01 December 1990

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

scientific article

The endoskeletal origin of the turtle carapace

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The evolutionary origin of the turtle shell and its dependence on the axial arrest of the embryonic rib cage.

scientific article

The evolutionary origin of the vertebrate body plan: the problem of head segmentation.

scientific article published on 02 June 2014

The evolutionary origins of chordate hematopoiesis and vertebrate endothelia

scientific article

The expression pattern of the chick homeobox gene gMHox suggests a role in patterning of the limbs and face and in compartmentalization of somites

scientific article published in February 1994

The history of scientific endeavors towards understanding hagfish embryology

scientific article published on May 2006

The neural crest and origin of the neurocranium in vertebrates

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

The origin of developmental mechanisms underlying vertebral elements: implications from hagfish evo-devo

scientific article

The participation of neural crest derived mesenchymal cells in development of the epithelial primordium of the thymus

scientific article published on 01 July 1990

Thoracolumbar vertebral number: The first skeletal synapomorphy for afrotherian mammals

article by Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra et al published March 2007 in Systematics and Biodiversity

Time scale for cyclostome evolution inferred with a phylogenetic diagnosis of hagfish and lamprey cDNA sequences

scientific article published on December 2006

Timing of genome duplications relative to the origin of the vertebrates: did cyclostomes diverge before or after?

scientific article

Turtle-chicken chimera: an experimental approach to understanding evolutionary innovation in the turtle

scientific article published in January 2005

Unique features of Myf-5 in turtles: nucleotide deletion, alternative splicing, and unusual expression pattern

scientific article published on September 2006

What are Head Cavities? - A History of Studies on Vertebrate Head Segmentation

scientific article

cDNA-based gene mapping and GC3 profiling in the soft-shelled turtle suggest a chromosomal size-dependent GC bias shared by sauropsids.

scientific article published on 17 March 2006

cimp1, a novel astacin family metalloproteinase gene from East African cichlids, is differentially expressed between species during growth

scientific article published on 27 April 2005

List of works by Shigeru Kuratani

A new evolutionary scenario for the vertebrate jaw

A new scenario of the evolutionary derivation of the mammalian diaphragm from shoulder muscles ⬇️

A novel transgenic technique that allows specific marking of the neural crest cell lineage in mice

Alternate expression of the HNK-1 epitope in rhombomeres of the chick embryo

Amphioxus mouth after dorso-ventral inversion.

An eye on the head: the development and evolution of craniofacial muscles

Ancestral mesodermal reorganization and evolution of the vertebrate head

Autopodial development in the sea turtles Chelonia mydas and Caretta caretta

Body plan of turtles: an anatomical, developmental and evolutionary perspective.

Brain segmentation and trigeminal projections in the lamprey; with reference to vertebrate brain evolution

Broken colinearity of the amphioxus Hox cluster.

Capacity of neural crest cells from various axial levels to participate in thymic development

Cephalic neural crest cells and the evolution of craniofacial structures in vertebrates: morphological and embryological significance of the premandibular-mandibular boundary

Cloning and analysis of a new developmentally regulated member of the basic helix-loop-helix family

Comparative analysis of pleurodiran and cryptodiran turtle embryos depicts the molecular ground pattern of the turtle carapacial ridge.

Comparative morphology and development of extra-ocular muscles in the lamprey and gnathostomes reveal the ancestral state and developmental patterns of the vertebrate head

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals vertebrate phylotypic period during organogenesis ⬇️

Compartments in the lamprey embryonic brain as revealed by regulatory gene expression and the distribution of reticulospinal neurons

Comprehensive survey of carapacial ridge-specific genes in turtle implies co-option of some regulatory genes in carapace evolution.

Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution

Craniofacial development and the evolution of the vertebrates: the old problems on a new background

Craniofacial development of hagfishes and the evolution of vertebrates.

Cyclostome embryology and early evolutionary history of vertebrates.

Cyclostome studies in the context of vertebrate evolution

Development and evolution of the lateral plate mesoderm: comparative analysis of amphioxus and lamprey with implications for the acquisition of paired fins.

Development of cephalic neural crest cells in embryos of Lampetra japonica, with special reference to the evolution of the jaw.

Development of head and trunk mesoderm in the dogfish, Scyliorhinus torazame: I. Embryology and morphology of the head cavities and related structures

Development of lamprey mucocartilage and its dorsal-ventral patterning by endothelin signaling, with insight into vertebrate jaw evolution

Development of the adenohypophysis in the lamprey: evolution of epigenetic patterning programs in organogenesis.

Development of the chondrocranial base of the musk shrew, Suncus murinus (Insectivora).

Development of the chondrocranium in hagfishes, with special reference to the early evolution of vertebrates

Development of the head and trunk mesoderm in the dogfish, Scyliorhinus torazame: II. Comparison of gene expression between the head mesoderm and somites with reference to the origin of the vertebrate head

Development of the thalamo-dorsal ventricular ridge tract in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis.

Developmental and evolutionary significance of the mandibular arch and prechordal/premandibular cranium in vertebrates: revising the heterotopy scenario of gnathostome jaw evolution

Developmental biology of hagfishes, with a report on newly obtained embryos of the Japanese inshore hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri

Developmental fates of shark head cavities reveal mesodermal contributions to tendon progenitor cells in extraocular muscles

Developmental genetic bases behind the independent origin of the tympanic membrane in mammals and diapsids

Developmental mechanisms of the tympanic membrane in mammals and non-mammalian amniotes

Developmental morphology of the head mesoderm and reevaluation of segmental theories of the vertebrate head: evidence from embryos of an agnathan vertebrate, Lampetra japonica

Developmental studies on the vertebrate head evolution

Dual origins of the prechordal cranium in the chicken embryo

Early development of the facial nerve in the chick embryo with special reference to the development of the chorda tympani

Early development of the hypoglossal nerve in the chick embryo as observed by the whole-mount nerve staining method

Ectodermally derived FGF8 defines the maxillomandibular region in the early chick embryo: epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in the specification of the craniofacial ectomesenchyme

Embryology of the lamprey and evolution of the vertebrate jaw: insights from molecular and developmental perspectives

Evidence from cyclostomes for complex regionalization of the ancestral vertebrate brain

Evolution and development of ventricular septation in the amniote heart

Evolution and developmental patterning of the vertebrate skeletal muscles: perspectives from the lamprey

Evolution of Otx paralogue usages in early patterning of the vertebrate head

Evolution of oropharyngeal patterning mechanisms involving Dlx and endothelins in vertebrates.

Evolution of retinoic acid receptors in chordates: insights from three lamprey species, Lampetra fluviatilis, Petromyzon marinus, and Lethenteron japonicum

Evolution of the Vertebrate Cranium: Viewed from Hagfish Developmental Studies

Evolution of the brain developmental plan: Insights from agnathans

Evolution of the nitric oxide synthase family in vertebrates and novel insights in gill development

Evolution of the regionalization and patterning of the vertebrate telencephalon: what can we learn from cyclostomes?

Evolution of the turtle body plan by the folding and creation of new muscle connections.

Evolution of the vertebral formulae in mammals: a perspective on developmental constraints

Evolution of the vertebrate jaw from developmental perspectives ⬇️

Evolution of the vertebrate jaw: comparative embryology and molecular developmental biology reveal the factors behind evolutionary novelty

Evolution of the vertebrate neurocranium: problems of the premandibular domain and the origin of the trabecula

Evolution of the vertebrate skeleton: morphology, embryology, and development

Evolution. A muscular perspective on vertebrate evolution

Evolutionary and developmental understanding of the spinal accessory nerve

Evolutionary biology: lamprey Hox genes and the evolution of jaws.

Evolutionary developmental perspective for the origin of turtles: the folding theory for the shell based on the developmental nature of the carapacial ridge.

Evolutionary developmental studies of cyclostomes and the origin of the vertebrate neck

Evolutionary divergence of trigeminal nerve somatotopy in amniotes

Evolutionary embryology resurrected in Japan with a new molecular basis: Nori Satoh and the history of ascidian studies originating in Kyoto during the 20th century

Evolutionary perspectives from development of mesodermal components in the lamprey

Expansion of the neck reconstituted the shoulder-diaphragm in amniote evolution.

Expansions, diversification, and interindividual copy number variations of AID/APOBEC family cytidine deaminase genes in lampreys

Expression and interaction of muscle-related genes in the lamprey imply the evolutionary scenario for vertebrate skeletal muscle, in association with the acquisition of the neck and fins.

Expression of Sox and fibrillar collagen genes in lamprey larval chondrogenesis with implications for the evolution of vertebrate cartilage

Expression of foreign genes in lamprey embryos: an approach to study evolutionary changes in gene regulation

Expression of the Kallmann syndrome gene in human fetal brain and in the manipulated chick embryo

Expression of thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1) gene in the ventral forebrain and endostyle of the agnathan vertebrate, Lampetra japonica

Expression pattern of the Kallmann syndrome gene in the olfactory system suggests a role in neuronal targeting

Expression pattern of two collagen type 2 alpha1 genes in the Japanese inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri) with special reference to the evolution of cartilaginous tissue

Genome-wide detection of gene extinction in early mammalian evolution.