| Divergent selection on opsins drives incipient speciation in Lake Victoria cichlids Y Terai, O Seehausen, T Sasaki, K Takahashi, S Mizoiri, T Sugawara, ... PLoS Biol 4 (12), e433, 2006 | 194 | 2006 |
| Spot pattern of leopard Danio is caused by mutation in the zebrafish connexin41.8 gene M Watanabe, M Iwashita, M Ishii, Y Kurachi, A Kawakami, S Kondo, ... EMBO reports 7 (9), 893-897, 2006 | 164 | 2006 |
| B chromosomes have a functional effect on female sex determination in Lake Victoria cichlid fishes K Yoshida, Y Terai, S Mizoiri, M Aibara, H Nishihara, M Watanabe, ... PLoS Genet 7 (8), e1002203, 2011 | 125 | 2011 |
| Pigment pattern in jaguar/obelix zebrafish is caused by a Kir7. 1 mutation: implications for the regulation of melanosome movement M Iwashita, M Watanabe, M Ishii, T Chen, SL Johnson, Y Kurachi, ... PLoS Genet 2 (11), e197, 2006 | 125 | 2006 |
| Involvement of Delta/Notch signaling in zebrafish adult pigment stripe patterning H Hamada, M Watanabe, HE Lau, T Nishida, T Hasegawa, DM Parichy, ... Development 141 (2), 318-324, 2014 | 106 | 2014 |
| Biosynthesis of archaeosine, a novel derivative of 7-deazaguanosine specific to archaeal tRNA, proceeds via a pathway involving base replacement on the tRNA polynucleotide chain M Watanabe, M Matsuo, S Tanaka, H Akimoto, S Asahi, S Nishimura, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 272 (32), 20146-20151, 1997 | 103 | 1997 |
| Is pigment patterning in fish skin determined by the Turing mechanism? M Watanabe, S Kondo Trends in Genetics 31 (2), 88-96, 2015 | 84 | 2015 |
| Crystal structure of archaeosine tRNA-guanine transglycosylase R Ishitani, O Nureki, S Fukai, T Kijimoto, N Nameki, M Watanabe, ... Journal of molecular biology 318 (3), 665-677, 2002 | 76 | 2002 |
| Changing clothes easily: connexin41.8 regulates skin pattern variation M Watanabe, S Kondo Pigment cell & melanoma research 25 (3), 326-330, 2012 | 60 | 2012 |
| Melanophore migration and survival during zebrafish adult pigment stripe development require the immunoglobulin superfamily adhesion molecule Igsf11 DS Eom, S Inoue, LB Patterson, TN Gordon, R Slingwine, S Kondo, ... PLoS Genet 8 (8), e1002899, 2012 | 55 | 2012 |
| Construction of a BAC library for Haplochromis chilotes, a cichlid fish from Lake Victoria M Watanabe, N Kobayashi, A Fujiyama, N Okada Genes & genetic systems 78 (1), 103-105, 2003 | 43 | 2003 |
| Extensive analysis of ORF sequences from two different cichlid species in Lake Victoria provides molecular evidence for a recent radiation event of the Victoria species flock … M Watanabe, N Kobayashi, T Shin-i, T Horiike, Y Tateno, Y Kohara, ... Gene 343 (2), 263-269, 2004 | 35 | 2004 |
| tRNA recognition of tRNA-guanine transglycosylase from a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus horikoshii M Watanabe, N Nameki, M Matsuo-Takasaki, S Nishimura, N Okada Journal of Biological Chemistry 276 (4), 2387-2394, 2001 | 34 | 2001 |
| cimp1, A Novel Astacin Family Metalloproteinase Gene from East African Cichlids, Is Differentially Expressed Between Species During Growth T Kijimoto, M Watanabe, K Fujimura, M Nakazawa, Y Murakami, ... Molecular biology and evolution 22 (8), 1649-1660, 2005 | 31 | 2005 |
| Tysnd1 deficiency in mice interferes with the peroxisomal localization of PTS2 enzymes, causing lipid metabolic abnormalities and male infertility Y Mizuno, Y Ninomiya, Y Nakachi, M Iseki, H Iwasa, M Akita, T Tsukui, ... PLoS Genet 9 (2), e1003286, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| Tetraspanin 3c requirement for pigment cell interactions and boundary formation in zebrafish adult pigment stripes S Inoue, S Kondo, DM Parichy, M Watanabe Pigment cell & melanoma research 27 (2), 190-200, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| Polyamine sensitivity of gap junctions is required for skin pattern formation in zebrafish M Watanabe, D Watanabe, S Kondo Scientific reports 2 (1), 1-5, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| magp4 gene may contribute to the diversification of cichlid morphs and their speciation N Kobayashi, M Watanabe, T Kijimoto, K Fujimura, M Nakazawa, K Ikeo, ... Gene 373, 126-133, 2006 | 22 | 2006 |
| Molecular and Functional Analyses of the Gene (eshA) Encoding the 52-Kilodalton Protein ofStreptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) Required for Antibiotic Production S Kawamoto, M Watanabe, N Saito, A Hesketh, K Vachalova, ... Journal of bacteriology 183 (20), 6009-6016, 2001 | 21 | 2001 |
| The physiological characterization of connexin41. 8 and connexin39. 4, which are involved in the striped pattern formation of zebrafish M Watanabe, R Sawada, T Aramaki, IM Skerrett, S Kondo Journal of Biological Chemistry 291 (3), 1053-1063, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
