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Yutaka Satou

Yutaka Satou

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Genetics

D-Index
69
Citations
16735
World Ranking
2351
National Ranking
90

Overview

Yutaka Satou is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Environmental Science as well. Their work extends into subfields including Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, Immunology, and Biotechnology.

Their research topics encompass several domains such as Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Animal Genetics and Reproduction, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Recent published papers authored or co-authored by Yutaka Satou include:

  • A Manually Curated Gene Model Set for an Ascidian, Ciona robusta (Ciona intestinalis Type A) (2022, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE)
  • Chromosomal Inversion Polymorphisms in Two Sympatric Ascidian Lineages (2021, Genome Biology and Evolution)

Other notable recent publications where they are not the primary author but have been involved include:

  • Tracing the evolutionary history of blood cells to the unicellular ancestor of animals (2022, Blood)
  • A single-cell analysis of the molecular lineage of chordate embryogenesis (2020, Science Advances)
  • The genetic program to specify ectodermal cells in ascidian embryos (2020, Development Growth & Differentiation)

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

  • Miki Tokuoka (7 collaborations)
  • Kenji Kobayashi (5 collaborations)
  • Izumi Oda-Ishii (3 collaborations)
  • Tasuku Ishida (3 collaborations)
  • Boqi Liu (3 collaborations)

The primary venues where Yutaka Satou's research has appeared multiple times are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 4 publications
  • Development - 3 publications
  • Science Advances - 2 publications
  • Developmental Biology - 2 publications
  • genesis - 2 publications

Best Publications

  • The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Thomas Butts;David E. K. Ferrier;Rebecca F. Furlong

  • The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis : insights into chordate and vertebrate origins

    Paramvir Dehal;Yutaka Satou;Robert K. Campbell;Jarrod Chapman

  • The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

    Linda Z. Holland;Ricard Albalat;Kaoru Azumi;Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez

  • Gene expression profiles of transcription factors and signaling molecules in the ascidian embryo: towards a comprehensive understanding of gene networks

    Kaoru S. Imai;Kyosuke Hino;Kasumi Yagi;Nori Satoh

  • Regulatory Blueprint for a Chordate Embryo

    Kaoru S. Imai;Michael Levine;Nori Satoh;Yutaka Satou

  • A genomewide survey of developmentally relevant genes in Ciona intestinalis

    Kasumi Yagi;Yatuka Satou;Francoise Mazet;Sebastian M. Shimeld

  • A cDNA resource from the basal chordate Ciona intestinalis.

    Yutaka Satou;Lixy Yamada;Yasuaki Mochizuki;Naohito Takatori

  • Axial patterning in cephalochordates and the evolution of the organizer

    Jr-Kai Yu;Yutaka Satou;Nicholas D. Holland;Tadasu Shin-I

  • Assembly of polymorphic genomes: algorithms and application to Ciona savignyi.

    Jade P. Vinson;David B. Jaffe;Keith O'Neill;Elinor K. Karlsson

  • Ciona intestinalis: an emerging model for whole-genome analyses

    Nori Satoh;Yutaka Satou;Brad Davidson;Michael Levine

  • A genomewide survey of developmentally relevant genes in Ciona intestinalis. II. Genes for homeobox transcription factors.

    Shuichi Wada;Miki Tokuoka;Eiichi Shoguchi;Kenji Kobayashi

  • Improved genome assembly and evidence-based global gene model set for the chordate Ciona intestinalis: new insight into intron and operon populations.

    Yutaka Satou;Katsuhiko Mineta;Michio Ogasawara;Yasunori Sasakura

  • (beta)-catenin mediates the specification of endoderm cells in ascidian embryos.

    Kaoru Imai;Norio Takada;Nori Satoh;Yutaka Satou

  • An integrated database of the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis: towards functional genomics.

    Yutaka Satou;Takeshi Kawashima;Eiichi Shoguchi;Akie Nakayama

  • Gene expression profiles in Ciona intestinalis tailbud embryos

    Yutaka Satou;Naohito Takatori;Lixy Yamada;Yasuaki Mochizuki

  • The evolutionary origin of animal cellulose synthase

    Keisuke Nakashima;Lixy Yamada;Yutaka Satou;Jun-ichi Azuma

  • The ascidian Mesp gene specifies heart precursor cells.

    Yutaka Satou;Kaoru S. Imai;Nori Satoh

  • A genomewide survey of developmentally relevant genes in Ciona intestinalis. I. Genes for bHLH transcription factors.

    Yutaka Satou;Kaoru S. Imai;Michael Levine;Yuji Kohara

  • Characterization of Brachyury-downstream notochord genes in the Ciona intestinalis embryo.

    Kohji Hotta;Hiroki Takahashi;Tomomi Asakura;Banjo Saitoh

  • Gene regulatory networks underlying the compartmentalization of the Ciona central nervous system.

    Kaoru S. Imai;Kaoru S. Imai;Alberto Stolfi;Michael Levine;Yutaka Satou

Frequent Co-Authors

Nori Satoh
Nori Satoh Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Yuji Kohara
Yuji Kohara National Institute of Genetics
Tadasu Shin-I
Tadasu Shin-I National Institute of Genetics
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Michael S. Levine
Michael S. Levine Princeton University
Masaru Nonaka
Masaru Nonaka University of Tokyo
Patrick Lemaire
Patrick Lemaire Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Linda Z. Holland
Linda Z. Holland University of California, San Diego
Billie J. Swalla
Billie J. Swalla University of Washington
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Marc Robinson-Rechavi University of Lausanne

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