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Lin CY, Yu JK*, & Su YH* (2021) Evidence for BMP-mediated specification of primordial germ cells in an indirect-developing hemichordate. Evol & Dev 2021 23:28-45.
Lin CY, Lu MYJ, Yue JX, Li KL. Le Pétillon Y, Yong LW, Chen YH, Tsai FU, Lyu YF, Chen CY, Hwang SPL, Su YH*, & Yu JK* (2020) Molecular asymmetry in the cephalochordate embryo revealed by single-blastomere transcriptome profiling. PLOS Genetics 16:e1009294.
Simakov O*, Marletaz F, Yue JX, O'Connell B, Jenkins J, Brandt A, Calef R, Tung CH, Huang TK, Schmutz J, Satoh N, Yu JK, Putnam NH, Green RE, & Rokhsar DS* (2020). Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution. Nat Ecol Evol 4:820-830.
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Kawaguchi M, Sugiyama K, Matsubara K, Lin CY, Kuraku S, Hashimoto S, Suwa Y, Yong LW, Takino K, Higashida S, Kawamura D, Yu JK & Seki Y*(2019) Co-option of the PRDM14–CBFA2T complex from motor neurons to pluripotent cells during vertebrate evolution. Development 146: dev168633.
Marletaz F, Firbas PN, Maeso I*, Tena JJ, Bogdanovic O, Perry M, Wyatt CDR, de la Calle-Mustienes E, Bertrand S, Burguera D, Acemel RD, van Heeringen SJ, Naranjo S, Herrera-Ubeda C, Skvortsova K, Jimenez-Gancedo S, Aldea D, Marquez Y, Buono L, Kozmikova I, Permanyer J, Louis A, Albuixech-Crespo B, Le Petillon Y, Leon A, Subirana L, Balwierz PJ, Duckett PE, Farahani E, Aury JM, Mangenot S, Wincker P, Albalat R, Benito-Gutierrez E, Canestro C, Castro F, D'Aniello S, Ferrier DEK, Huang S, Laudet V, Marais GAB, Pontarotti P, Schubert M, Seitz H, Somorjai I, Takahashi T, Mirabeau O, Xu A, Yu JK, Carninci P, Martinez-Morales JR, Crollius HR, Kozmik Z, Weirauch MT, Garcia-Fernandez J, Lister R, Lenhard B, Holland PWH, Escriva H*, Gomez-Skarmeta JL*, & Irimia M* (2018) Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation. Nature. 564:64-70.
Nakashima K*, Kimura S, Ogawa Y, Watanabe S, Soma S, Kaneko T, Yamada L, Sawada H, Tung CH, Lu TM, Yu JK, Villar-Briones A, Kikuchi S, & Satoh N (2018) Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota. Nat Commun 9(1):3402.
Hu H, Uesaka M, Guo S, Shimai K, Lu TM, Li F, Fujimoto S, Ishikawa M, Liu S, Sasagawa Y, Zhang G, Kuratani S, Yu JK, Kusakabe TG, Khaitovich P, Irie N*, and the EXPANDE Consortium (2017) Constrained vertebrate evolution by pleiotropic genes. Nat Ecol Evol 1:1722-1730.
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