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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Wnt/β‐catenin signaling: Structure, assembly and endocytosis of the signalosome	49
Stem‐cell‐based therapies for retinal degenerative diseases: Current challenges in the establishment of new treatment strategies	29
Human liver model systems in a dish	22
In vitro systems: A new window to the segmentation clock	19
Development of pluripotent stem cell‐based human tenocytes	17
The TRP channel PKD2 is involved in sensing the mechanical stimulus of adhesion for initiating metamorphosis in the chordate Ciona	14
Pluripotent stem cells for the study of early human embryology	13
Neural induction: Historical views and application to pluripotent stem cells	13
Recent progress of animal transplantation studies for treating articular cartilage damage using pluripotent stem cells	13
CRISPR/Cas9 nickase‐mediated efficient and seamless knock‐in of lethal genes in the medaka fish Oryzias latipes	12
The many faces of the E3 ubiquitin ligase, RNF220, in neural development and beyond	12
GONAD: A new method for germline genome editing in mice and rats	12
Genetic variation analyses indicate conserved SARS‐CoV‐2–host interaction and varied genetic adaptation in immune response factors in modern human evolution	12
Heat shock cognate 70 genes contribute to Drosophila spermatocyte growth progression possibly through the insulin signaling pathway	11
A population of neurons that produce hugin and express the diuretic hormone 44 receptor gene projects to the corpora allata in Drosophila melanogaster	11
Modeling neurodevelopment in a dish with pluripotent stem cells	11
Hypothalamic–pituitary organoid generation through the recapitulation of organogenesis	11
Establishment of culture and microinjection methods for false clownfish embryos without parental care	10
Crosstalk between the mTOR and Hippo pathways	10
Kidney organoids: Research in developmental biology and emerging applications	9
The many faces of Sox2 function in neural crest development	9
Rewiring of chromatin state and gene expression by transposable elements	9
Diverse sensory cues for individual recognition	9
Spatial organization and transitions of spontaneous neuronal activities in the developing sensory cortex	8
Efficient visual screening of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus	8

A modified Tet‐ON system minimizing leaky expression for cell‐type specific gene induction in medaka fish	8
A small Rho GTPase OsRacB is required for pollen germination in rice	8
Identification and characterization of a fibroblast growth factor gene in the planarian Dugesia japonica	8
Synthetic embryology: Early mammalian embryo modeling systems from cell cultures	7
Optimization of CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated gene disruption in Xenopus laevis using a phenotypic image analysis technique	7
Contribution of sox9b to pigment cell formation in medaka fish	7
Prime editing in chicken fibroblasts and primordial germ cells	6
The origin of life: RNA and protein co‐evolution on the ancient Earth	6
Temnopleurus reevesii as a new sea urchin model in genetics	6
Reemployment of Kupffer’s vesicle cells into axial and paraxial mesoderm via transdifferentiation	6
TrBase: A genome and transcriptome database of Temnopleurus reevesii	6
Plant secondary cell wall proteome analysis with an inducible system for xylem vessel cell differentiation	6
Epigenomic dynamics of early Xenopus Embryos	5
Newly raised anti‐c‐Kit antibody visualizes morphology of interstitial cells of Cajal in the developing gut of chicken embryos	5
Migratory regulation by MTA homologous genes is essential for the uniform distribution of planarian adult pluripotent stem cells	5
In vivo wide‐field voltage imaging in zebrafish with voltage‐sensitive dye and genetically encoded voltage indicator	5
Development of platelet replacement therapy using human induced pluripotent stem cells	5
Quantification of planarian behaviors	5
Cell sorting and germ layer formation in reconstructed starfish embryos	5
An improved iliac lymph node method for production of monoclonal antibodies	5
A geometrical perspective on development	5
Formation of a multi‐layered 3‐dimensional structure of the heterochromatin compartment during early mammalian development	5
Plastic brain structure changes associated with the division of labor and aging in termites	4
Mosaic gene expression analysis of semaphorin–plexin interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans using the IR‐LEGO single‐cell gene induction system	4
Evolutionary diversification of the canonical Wnt signaling effector TCF/LEF in chordates	4
A role of Hey2 transcription factor for right ventricle development through regulation of Tbx2‐Mycn pathway during cardiac morphogenesis	4
The rise of developmental biology in China	4
An easy and rapid staining method for confocal microscopic observation and reconstruction of three‐dimensional images of echinoderm larvae and juveniles	4
A rapid segmentation method of cell boundary for developing embryos using machine learning with a personal computer	4
ccr7 affects both morphogenesis and differentiation during early Xenopus embryogenesis	3
Pluripotent stem cells in developmental biology	3
Back and forth: History of and new insights on the vertebrate lymphatic valve	3
Pluripotent stem cells in the research for extraembryonic cell differentiation	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
X‐ray micro‐computed tomography of Xenopus tadpole reveals changes in brain ventricular morphology during telencephalon regeneration	3
Optogenetic control of medaka behavior with channelrhodopsin	3
Quantitative analysis of the roles of IRM cell adhesion molecules in column formation in the fly brain	3
Intravital staining to detect mineralization in Xenopus tropicalis during and after metamorphosis	3
Developmental biology of the larvaceanOikopleura dioica: Genome resources, functional screening, and imaging	3
The crucial role of CTCF in mitotic progression during early development of sea urchin	3
Involvement of Oct4‐type transcription factor Pou5f3 in posterior spinal cord formation in zebrafish embryos	3
Component analysis of nucleolar protein compartments using Xenopus laevis oocytes	3
The dopamine effect on sea urchin larvae depends on their age	3
Step‐by‐step protocol for alternative injury models in newt cardiac regeneration	3
Preparation of three‐notochord explants for imaging analysis of the cell movements of convergent extension during early Xenopus morphogenesis	3
Individual differences in response to alcohol and nicotine in zebrafish: Gene expression and behavior	3
Can we model autism using zebrafish?	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

Diversity of cortical bone morphology in anuran amphibians	3
Combined method of whole mount and block‐face imaging: Acquisition of 3D data of gene expression pattern from conventional in situ hybridization	3