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Kazuho Ikeo is affiliated with the National Institute of Genetics in Japan. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on environmental science. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including molecular biology, ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, and hematology.

Their scholarly work covers diverse topics, such as:

  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Acute myeloid leukemia research
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies
  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Cephalopods and marine biology
  • Echinoderm biology and ecology
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology

Kazuho Ikeo has published in a variety of venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Blood
  • Scientific Reports

Among their recent papers are several notable works, including the full titles, year of publication, and venue:

  • "The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Exogenous mitochondrial transfer and endogenous mitochondrial fission facilitate AML resistance to OxPhos inhibition," 2021, Blood Advances
  • "Genomic insights of body plan transitions from bilateral to pentameral symmetry in Echinoderms," 2020, Communications Biology
  • "TAS-Seq is a robust and sensitive amplification method for bead-based scRNA-seq," 2022, Communications Biology
  • "Establishment of homozygous knock-out sea urchins," 2020, Current Biology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sonoko Kinjo
  • Shigeyuki Shichino
  • Satoshi Ueha
  • Shinichi Hashimoto
  • Junichi Imoto

Best Publications

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • Pax 6: mastering eye morphogenesis and eye evolution

    Walter J Gehring;Kazuho Ikeo

  • The dynamic genome of Hydra

    Jarrod A. Chapman;Ewen F. Kirkness;Oleg Simakov;Oleg Simakov;Steven E. Hampson

  • Cloning of human, mouse and fission yeast recombination genes homologous to RAD51 and recA

    Akira Shinohara;Hideyuki Ogawa;Yoichi Matsuda;Noriko Ushio

  • The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

    Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

  • Large-scale search for genes on which positive selection may operate.

    T Endo;K Ikeo;T Gojobori

  • Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

    Tadashi Imanishi;Takeshi Itoh;Yutaka Suzuki;Claire O'Donovan

  • Prediction of the prototype of the human Toll-like receptor gene family from the pufferfish, Fugu rubripes, genome

    Hiroyuki Oshiumi;Tadayuki Tsujita;Kyoko Shida;Misako Matsumoto

  • The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): 2008 update

    Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Baltazar A. Antonio;Shoshi Kikuchi;Takashi Matsumoto

  • A web‐based interactive developmental table for the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, including 3D real‐image embryo reconstructions: I. From fertilized egg to hatching larva

    Kohji Hotta;Kenta Mitsuhara;Hiroki Takahashi;Kazuo Inaba

  • FGFR-related gene nou-darake restricts brain tissues to the head region of planarians

    Francesc Cebrià;Chiyoko Kobayashi;Yoshihiko Umesono;Masumi Nakazawa

  • The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): hub for Oryza sativa ssp. japonica genome information

    Hajime Ohyanagi;Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Hiroaki Sakai;Yasumasa Shigemoto

  • Comparative complete genome sequence analysis of the amino acid replacements responsible for the thermostability of Corynebacterium efficiens.

    Yousuke Nishio;Yoji Nakamura;Yutaka Kawarabayasi;Yoshihiro Usuda

  • Curated genome annotation of Oryza sativa ssp. japonica and comparative genome analysis with Arabidopsis thaliana

    Takeshi Itoh;Takeshi Itoh;Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Roberto A. Barrero;Chisato Yamasaki

  • The evolutionary position of nematodes.

    Jaime E Blair;Kazuho Ikeo;Takashi Gojobori;S Blair Hedges

  • The first symbiont-free genome sequence of marine red alga, Susabi-nori (Pyropia yezoensis).

    Yoji Nakamura;Naobumi Sasaki;Masahiro Kobayashi;Nobuhiko Ojima

  • Origin and evolutionary process of the CNS elucidated by comparative genomics analysis of planarian ESTs

    Katsuhiko Mineta;Masumi Nakazawa;Francesc Cebrià;Kazuho Ikeo

  • Structural features of a wheat plastome as revealed by complete sequencing of chloroplast DNA.

    Y. Ogihara;K. Isono;T. Kojima;A. Endo

  • CONSTRAINED EVOLUTION WITH RESPECT TO GENE OVERLAP OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS

    Masashi Mizokami;Etsuro Orito;Ken-ichi Ohba;Kazuho Ikeo

  • CIBEX: center for information biology gene expression database.

    Kazuho Ikeo;Jun Ishi-i;Takurou Tamura;Takashi Gojobori

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Marina Konopleva
Marina Konopleva The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Michael Andreeff
Michael Andreeff The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Asao Fujiyama
Asao Fujiyama National Institute of Genetics
Takeshi Itoh
Takeshi Itoh Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Tatsuo Fukagawa
Tatsuo Fukagawa Osaka University
Kiyokazu Agata
Kiyokazu Agata National Institute for Basic Biology
Naruya Saitou
Naruya Saitou National Institute of Genetics

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