• Morphological and Physiological Framework Underlying Plant Longevity in Arabidopsis thaliana 

  Wang, Yukun; Kumaishi, Kie; Suzuki, Takamasa; Ichihashi, Yasunori; Yamaguchi, Nobutoshi; Shirakawa, Makoto; Ito, Toshiro (Frontiers Media, 2020-11-05)

  Monocarpic plants have a single reproductive phase, in which their longevity is developmentally programmed by molecular networks. In the reproductive phase of Arabidopsis thaliana, the inflorescence meristem (IM) maintains ...
• TERMINAL FLOWER 1-FD complex target genes and competition with FLOWERING LOCUS T 

  Zhu, Yang; Klasfeld, Samantha; Jeong, Cheol Woong; Jin, Run; Goto, Koji; Yamaguchi, Nobutoshi; Wagner, Doris (Nature Research, 2020-10-12)

  Plants monitor seasonal cues to optimize reproductive success by tuning onset of reproduction and inflorescence architecture. TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1) and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and their orthologs antagonistically regulate ...
• Celf1 is required for formation of endoderm-derived organs in zebrafish 

  Tahara, Naoyuki; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (MDPI, 2013-09-03)

  We recently reported that an RNA binding protein called Cugbp Elav-like family member 1 (Celf1) regulates somite symmetry and left-right patterning in zebrafish. In this report, we show additional roles of Celf1 in zebrafish ...
• Editorial: Cell Adhesion and Migration in the Development of Multicellular Organisms 

  Matsui, Takaaki (Frontiers Media, 2018-10-22)
• ERK Activity Dynamics during Zebrafish Embryonic Development 

  Wong, Kah-Loon; Akiyama, Ryutaro; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (MDPI, 2018-12-28)

  During vertebrate development, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) is activated by growth factors such as fibroblast growth factor (FGF), and it regulates the formation of tissues/organs including eyes, brains, ...
• Noise-resistant developmental reproducibility in vertebrate somite formation 

  Honda, Naoki; Akiyama, Ryutaro; Sari, Dini Wahyu Kartika; Ishii, Shin; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (Public Library of Science, 2020-02-04)

  The reproducibility of embryonic development is remarkable, although molecular processes are intrinsically stochastic at the single-cell level. How the multicellular system resists the inevitable noise to acquire developmental ...
• Time-lapse observation of stepwise regression of Erk activity in zebrafish presomitic mesoderm 

  Sari, Dini Wahyu Kartika; Akiyama, Ryutaro; Honda, Naoki; Ishijima, Hannosuke; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (Nature Research, 2018-03-12)

  During somite segmentation, clock genes oscillate within the posterior presomitic mesoderm (PSM). The temporal information ties up with the posteriorly moving FGF gradient, leading to the formation of a presumptive somite ...
• Creation and Evaluation of Atomically Ordered Side- and Facet-Surface Structures of Three-Dimensional Silicon Nano-Architectures 

  Hattori, Azusa N.; Hattori, Ken (IntechOpen, 2020-06-23)

  The realization of three-dimensional (3D)-architected nanostructures, that is, the transformation from novel two-dimensional (2D) film-based devices to 3D complex nanodevices, is of crucial importance with the progress of ...
• Genetic Manipulation of Transcriptional Regulators Alters Nicotine Biosynthesis in Tobacco 

  Hayashi, Shunya; Watanabe, Mutsumi; Kobayashi, Makoto; Tohge, Takayuki; Hashimoto, Takashi; Shoji, Tsubasa (Oxford University Press, 2020-06)

  The toxic alkaloid nicotine is produced in the roots of Nicotiana species and primarily accumulates in leaves as a specialized metabolite. A series of metabolic and transport genes involved in the nicotine pathway are ...
• Functional Analysis of the Plant Chromosomal Passenger Complex 

  Komaki, Shinichiro; Takeuchi, Hidenori; Hamamura, Yuki; Heese, Maren; Hashimoto, Takashi; Schnittger, Arp (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2020-08)

  The Aurora B kinase, encoded by the AURORA 3 (AUR3) gene in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), is a key regulator of cell division in all eukaryotes. Aurora B has at least two central functions during cell division; it ...
• Monitoring Neural Activities in the VTA in Response to Nicotine Intake Using a Novel Implantable Microimaging Device 

  Sunaga, Yoshinori; Ohta, Yasumi; Akay, Yasemin M; Ohta, Jun; Akay, Metin (IEEE, 2020-04-06)

  Measurements of the deep brain area of rodents has been one of the most important methods to study deep brain activities, in part due to limited access of this region. In order to address this problem, we have designed and ...
• Innate immune responses through Toll-like receptor 3 require human-antigen-R-mediated Atp6v0d2 mRNA stabilization 

  Zainol, Mohd Izwan Bin; Kawasaki, Takumi; Monwan, Warunthorn; Murase, Motoya; Sueyoshi, Takuya; Kawai, Taro (Nature Research, 2019-12-31)

  Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) recognizes double-stranded RNA derived from virus and its synthetic analogue, polyinosinic–polycytidylic acid [poly(I:C)]. Upon poly(I:C) binding, TLR3 activates transcription factors to express ...
• Extraction of Hierarchical Behavior Patterns Using a Non-parametric Bayesian Approach 

  Briones, Jeric; Kubo, Takatomi; Ikeda, Kazushi (Frontiers, 2020-10-19)

  Extraction of complex temporal patterns, such as human behaviors, from time series data is a challenging yet important problem. The double articulation analyzer has been previously proposed by Taniguchi et al. to discover ...
• The inner junction complex of the cilia is an interaction hub that involves tubulin post-translational modifications 

  Khalifa, Ahmad Abdelzaher Zaki; Ichikawa, Muneyoshi; Dai, Daniel; Kubo, Shintaroh; Black, Corbin Steven; Peri, Katya; McAlear, Thomas S; Veyron, Simon; Yang, Shun Kai; Vargas, Javier; Bechstedt, Susanne; Trempe, Jean-François; Bui, Khanh Huy (eLife Sciences Publications, 2020-01-17)

  Microtubules are cytoskeletal structures involved in stability, transport and organization in the cell. The building blocks, the a- and b-tubulin heterodimers, form protofilaments that associate laterally into the hollow ...
• Identification and mapping of central pair proteins by proteomic analysis 

  Dai, Daniel; Ichikawa, Muneyoshi; Peri, Katya; Rebinsky, Reid; Bui, Khanh Huy (The Biophysical Society of Japan, 2020-06-16)

  Cilia or flagella of eukaryotes are small micro-hair like structures that are indispensable to single-cell motility and play an important role in mammalian biological processes. Cilia or flagella are composed of nine ...
• Wait for it: identifying “On-Hold” self-admitted technical debt 

  Maipradit, Rungroj; Treude, Christoph; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (Springer Nature, 2020-09)

  Self-admitted technical debt refers to situations where a software developer knows that their current implementation is not optimal and indicates this using a source code comment. In this work, we hypothesize that it is ...
• 心拍変動を用いた運動中のイヌの情動評価の試み 

  MURAYAMA, MIKURU; NAGASAWA, MIHO; KATAYAMA, MAKI; IKEDA, KAZUSHI; KUBO, TAKATOMI; YAMAKAWA, TOSHITAKA; FUJIWARA, KOICHI; KIKUSUI, TAKEFUMI (Japanese Society for Animal Psychology, 2020-08-03)

  Heart rate variability (HRV) is a physical and noninvasive index of the autonomic nervous system and has been used in a wide range of fields such as human medicine, veterinary and animal behavior. Measuring devices have ...
• Predicting Defective Lines Using a Model-Agnostic Technique 

  Wattanakriengkrai, Supatsara; Thongtanunam, Patanamon; Tantithamthavorn, Chakkrit; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (IEEE, 2020-09-08)

  Defect prediction models are proposed to help a team prioritize source code areas files that need Software Quality Assurance (SQA) based on the likelihood of having defects. However, developers may waste their unnecessary ...
• Pandemic programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help 

  Ralph, Paul; Baltes, Sebastian; Adisaputri, Gianisa; Torkar, Richard; Kovalenko, Vladimir; Kalinowski, Marcos; Novielli, Nicole; Yoo, Shin; Devroey, Xavier; Tan, Xin; Zhou, Minghui; Turhan, Burak; Hoda, Rashina; Hata, Hideaki; Robles, Gregorio; Fard, Amin Milani; Alkadhi, Rana (Springer Nature, 2020-09-14)

  Context As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and stressful conditions. Objective This study ...
• Local Structure of the Impurity Site in Nd:LaF3 by X‐Ray Fluorescence Holography 

  Stellhorn, Jens Rüdiger; Hosokawa, Shinya; Happo, Naohisa; Hayashi, Kouichi; Matsushita, Tomohiro; Kawaguchi, Noriaki; Yanagida, Takayuki (Wiley, 2020-07-21)

  The local structure around the dopant atom in Nd(8 mol%):LaF3 single‐crystal scintillator is analyzed by X‐ray fluorescence holography experiments in combination with a sparse modeling algorithm. The average local environment ...

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