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Overview

Kiyokazu Agata is affiliated with the National Institute for Basic Biology in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans various subfields including molecular biology, global and planetary change, genetics, surgery, and plant science.

Their research primarily focuses on topics such as planarian biology and electrostimulation, marine ecology and invasive species, developmental biology and gene regulation, plant and biological electrophysiology studies, silk-based biomaterials and applications, marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, and connective tissue disorders research.

Frequent collaborators with Agata include Takeshi Inoue, Kenichi Suzuki, Yoshihiko Umesono, Toshinori Hayashi, and Akinori Okumura.

Agata's work has been published in several journals, with frequent appearances in Development Growth & Differentiation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Development, Developmental Biology, and Zoological Letters.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Agata cover a range of topics and include:

  • "Toll signalling promotes blastema cell proliferation during cricket leg regeneration via insect macrophages" (2021, Development)
  • "What is the role of PIWI family proteins in adult pluripotent stem cells? Insights from asexually reproducing animals, planarians" (2020, Development Growth & Differentiation)
  • "Newt Hoxa13 has an essential and predominant role in digit formation during development and regeneration" (2022, Development)
  • "An approach for elucidating dermal fibroblast dedifferentiation in amphibian limb regeneration" (2022, Zoological Letters)
  • "Identification and characterization of a fibroblast growth factor gene in the planarian Dugesia japonica" (2020, Development Growth & Differentiation)

Best Publications

  • The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss

    David James Miller;Georg Hemmrich;Eldon E. Ball;David C. Hayward

  • The mRNA-like noncoding RNA Gomafu constitutes a novel nuclear domain in a subset of neurons

    Masamitsu Sone;Tetsutaro Hayashi;Hiroshi Tarui;Kiyokazu Agata

  • Evidence for different origin of sex chromosomes in snakes, birds, and mammals and step-wise differentiation of snake sex chromosomes

    Kazumi Matsubara;Hiroshi Tarui;Michihisa Toriba;Kazuhiko Yamada

  • Expression of vasa(vas)-related genes in germline cells and totipotent somatic stem cells of planarians.

    Norito Shibata;Yoshihiko Umesono;Hidefumi Orii;Takashige Sakurai

  • Structure of the Planarian Central Nervous System (CNS) Revealed by Neuronal Cell Markers

    Kiyokazu Agata;Yukihiro Soejima;Kentaro Kato;Chiyoko Kobayashi

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

    Francesc Cebrià;Chiyoko Kobayashi;Yoshihiko Umesono;Masumi Nakazawa

  • Isolation of planarian X-ray-sensitive stem cells by fluorescence-activated cell sorting.

    Tetsutaro Hayashi;Maki Asami;Sayaka Higuchi;Norito Shibata;Norito Shibata

  • The A5 antigen, a candidate for the neuronal recognition molecule, has homologies to complement components and coagulation factors

    Shin Takagi;Tatsumi Hirata;Kiyokazu Agata;Makoto Mochii

  • Unifying principles of regeneration I: Epimorphosis versus morphallaxis.

    Kiyokazu Agata;Yumi Saito;Elizabeth Nakajima

  • Identification of a photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor

    Mime Kobayashi;Shin-ichiro Takezawa;Kenji Hara;Ruth T. Yu

  • A PLANARIAN ORTHOPEDIA HOMOLOG IS SPECIFICALLY EXPRESSED IN THE BRANCH REGION OF BOTH THE MATURE AND REGENERATING BRAIN

    Yoshihiko Umesono;Kenji Watanabe;Kiyokazu Agata

  • RNA interference by feeding in vitro–synthesized double‐stranded RNA to planarians: Methodology and dynamics

    Labib Rouhana;Jennifer A. Weiss;David J. Forsthoefel;Hayoung Lee

  • Seasonal change in bacterial flora and biomass in mountain snow from the Tateyama Mountains, Japan, analyzed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and real-time PCR.

    Takahiro Segawa;Koji Miyamoto;Kazunari Ushida;Kiyokazu Agata

  • The molecular logic for planarian regeneration along the anterior-posterior axis.

    Yoshihiko Umesono;Junichi Tasaki;Yui Nishimura;Martina Hrouda

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

    Katsuhiko Mineta;Masumi Nakazawa;Francesc Cebrià;Kazuho Ikeo

  • Distinct structural domains in the planarian brain defined by the expression of evolutionarily conserved homeobox genes.

    Y. Umesono;Kenji Watanabe;K. Agata

  • Molecular and cellular aspects of planarian regeneration.

    Kiyokazu Agata;Kenji Watanabe

  • Planarian Hedgehog/Patched establishes anterior–posterior polarity by regulating Wnt signaling

    Shigenobu Yazawa;Yoshihiko Umesono;Tetsutaro Hayashi;Hiroshi Tarui

  • ERK signaling controls blastema cell differentiation during planarian regeneration

    Junichi Tasaki;Norito Shibata;Osamu Nishimura;Kazu Itomi

  • Morphological and functional recovery of the planarian photosensing system during head regeneration.

    Takeshi Inoue;Hiroshi Kumamoto;Keiji Okamoto;Yoshihiko Umesono

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoichi Matsuda
Yoichi Matsuda Nagoya University
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Kazuho Ikeo
Kazuho Ikeo National Institute of Genetics
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Panagiotis A. Tsonis
Panagiotis A. Tsonis University of Dayton
Kinichi Nakashima
Kinichi Nakashima Kyushu University
Shigehiro Kuraku
Shigehiro Kuraku National Institute of Genetics
Asao Fujiyama
Asao Fujiyama National Institute of Genetics
Hajime Fujisawa
Hajime Fujisawa Nagoya University

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