OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Development Growth & Differentiation is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Wnt/β‐catenin signaling: Structure, assembly and endocytosis of the signalosome	36
Stem‐cell‐based therapies for retinal degenerative diseases: Current challenges in the establishment of new treatment strategies	27
Human liver model systems in a dish	18
Evolution of wing pigmentation in Drosophila: Diversity, physiological regulation, and cis‐regulatory evolution	17
In vitro systems: A new window to the segmentation clock	16
Gene regulatory landscape of the sonic hedgehog locus in embryonic development	16
Morphogenetic mechanisms forming the notochord rod: The turgor pressure‐sheath strength model	14
Development of pluripotent stem cell‐based human tenocytes	13
A genome database for a Japanese population of the larvacean Oikopleura dioica	12
Neural induction: Historical views and application to pluripotent stem cells	12
The TRP channel PKD2 is involved in sensing the mechanical stimulus of adhesion for initiating metamorphosis in the chordate Ciona	11
CRISPR/Cas9 nickase‐mediated efficient and seamless knock‐in of lethal genes in the medaka fish Oryzias latipes	11
GONAD: A new method for germline genome editing in mice and rats	11
Pluripotent stem cells for the study of early human embryology	11
The regulatory landscape of the Dlx gene system in branchial arches: Shared characteristics among Dlx bigene clusters and evolution	10
Hypothalamic–pituitary organoid generation through the recapitulation of organogenesis	10
Modeling neurodevelopment in a dish with pluripotent stem cells	10
Genetic variation analyses indicate conserved SARS‐CoV‐2–host interaction and varied genetic adaptation in immune response factors in modern human evolution	9
Dynein assembly factor with WD repeat domains 1 (DAW1) is required for the function of motile cilia in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea	9
The many faces of the E3 ubiquitin ligase, RNF220, in neural development and beyond	9
The many faces of Sox2 function in neural crest development	9
Diverse sensory cues for individual recognition	9
Recent progress of animal transplantation studies for treating articular cartilage damage using pluripotent stem cells	9
In vivo imaging of neural circuit formation in the neonatal mouse barrel cortex	9
A modified Tet‐ON system minimizing leaky expression for cell‐type specific gene induction in medaka fish	8

What is the role of PIWI family proteins in adult pluripotent stem cells? Insights from asexually reproducing animals, planarians	8
Kidney organoids: Research in developmental biology and emerging applications	8
Developmental constraints on fin diversity	8
Heat shock cognate 70 genes contribute to Drosophila spermatocyte growth progression possibly through the insulin signaling pathway	8
A population of neurons that produce hugin and express the diuretic hormone 44 receptor gene projects to the corpora allata in Drosophila melanogaster	8
Spatial organization and transitions of spontaneous neuronal activities in the developing sensory cortex	7
Identification and characterization of a fibroblast growth factor gene in the planarian Dugesia japonica	7
Synthetic embryology: Early mammalian embryo modeling systems from cell cultures	7
How do signaling and transcription factors regulate both axis elongation and Hox gene expression along the anteroposterior axis?	7
Rewiring of chromatin state and gene expression by transposable elements	6
Establishment of culture and microinjection methods for false clownfish embryos without parental care	6
Modeling early stages of endoderm development in epiblast stem cell aggregates with supply of extracellular matrices	6
Efficient visual screening of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus	6
Optimization of CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated gene disruption in Xenopus laevis using a phenotypic image analysis technique	5
Contribution of sox9b to pigment cell formation in medaka fish	5
Temnopleurus reevesii as a new sea urchin model in genetics	5
Light‐sheet microscopy‐based 3D single‐cell tracking reveals a correlation between cell cycle and the start of endoderm cell internalization in early zebrafish development	5
Development of platelet replacement therapy using human induced pluripotent stem cells	5
Point mutagenesis in mouse reveals contrasting pathogenetic effects between MEN2B‐ and Hirschsprung disease‐associated missense mutations of the RET gene	5
Polycomb group RING finger protein 5 influences several developmental signaling pathways during the in vitro differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells	5
TrBase: A genome and transcriptome database of Temnopleurus reevesii	5
Crosstalk between the mTOR and Hippo pathways	5
Plant secondary cell wall proteome analysis with an inducible system for xylem vessel cell differentiation	5
The evolutionary origin of developmental enhancers in vertebrates: Insights from non‐model species	5
In vivo wide‐field voltage imaging in zebrafish with voltage‐sensitive dye and genetically encoded voltage indicator	5
Formation of a multi‐layered 3‐dimensional structure of the heterochromatin compartment during early mammalian development	4
A role of Hey2 transcription factor for right ventricle development through regulation of Tbx2‐Mycn pathway during cardiac morphogenesis	4
Regulation of genes for ubiquitination and SUMO‐specific protease involved in larval development of the silkworm, Bombyx mori	4
Emerging evidence for cell‐autonomous axon guidance	4
A small Rho GTPase OsRacB is required for pollen germination in rice	4
Quantification of planarian behaviors	4
Epigenomic dynamics of early Xenopus Embryos	4
Reemployment of Kupffer’s vesicle cells into axial and paraxial mesoderm via transdifferentiation	4
A rapid segmentation method of cell boundary for developing embryos using machine learning with a personal computer	4
Prime editing in chicken fibroblasts and primordial germ cells	4
Cell sorting and germ layer formation in reconstructed starfish embryos	4
Enhancer evolution in chordates: Lessons from functional analyses of cephalochordate cis‐regulatory modules	4
The origin of life: RNA and protein co‐evolution on the ancient Earth	4
An improved iliac lymph node method for production of monoclonal antibodies	4
Intravital staining to detect mineralization in Xenopus tropicalis during and after metamorphosis	3
Mosaic gene expression analysis of semaphorin–plexin interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans using the IR‐LEGO single‐cell gene induction system	3
Expression of the core promoter factors TATA box binding protein and TATA box binding protein‐related factor 2 in Drosophila germ cells and their distinct functions in germline development	3
Invention sharing is the mother of developmental biology	3
Plastic brain structure changes associated with the division of labor and aging in termites	3
Preparation of three‐notochord explants for imaging analysis of the cell movements of convergent extension during early Xenopus morphogenesis	3
An easy and rapid staining method for confocal microscopic observation and reconstruction of three‐dimensional images of echinoderm larvae and juveniles	3
Sperm associated antigen 7 is activated by T3 during Xenopus tropicalis metamorphosis via a thyroid hormone response element within the first intron	3
The lipid‐binding START domain regulates the dimerization of ATML1 via modulating the ZIP motif activity in Arabidopsis thaliana	3
Evolutionary diversification of the canonical Wnt signaling effector TCF/LEF in chordates	3
ccr7 affects both morphogenesis and differentiation during early Xenopus embryogenesis	3

Pluripotent stem cells in developmental biology	3
Pluripotent stem cells in the research for extraembryonic cell differentiation	3
Newly raised anti‐c‐Kit antibody visualizes morphology of interstitial cells of Cajal in the developing gut of chicken embryos	3
Combined method of whole mount and block‐face imaging: Acquisition of 3D data of gene expression pattern from conventional in situ hybridization	3
Migratory regulation by MTA homologous genes is essential for the uniform distribution of planarian adult pluripotent stem cells	3
Quantitative analysis of the roles of IRM cell adhesion molecules in column formation in the fly brain	3