PUBLICATION
2023
Hirofumi Kariyayama, Natalia Gogoleva, Keishi Harada, Hiromasa Yokoyama, Hiroki Ono, Daichi G. Suzuki, Yuji Yamazaki, Hiroshi Wada. Development of the vertebra and fin skeleton in the lamprey and its implications for the homology of vertebrate vertebrae Developmental Dynamics, in press
Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroki Yoshikawa. Role of maternal spiralian‐specific homeobox gene SPILE‐E in the specification of blastomeres along the animal‐vegetal axis during the early cleavage stages of mollusks Development, Growth & Differentiation, 65:384-394
Shumpei Yamakawa, Yasunori Sasakura, Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroshi Wada. Detection of TALEN-mediated genome cleavage during the early embryonic stage of the starfish Patiria pectinifera. Developmental Dynamics, in press
Shumpei Yamakawa, Atsuko Yamazaki, Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroshi Wada. Early expression onset of tissue-specific effector genes during the specification process in sea urchin embryos EvoDevo, 14:1-7
(Preprint) Susumu Takatsuka, Norio Miyamoto, Hidehito Sato, Yoshiaki Morino, Yoshihisa Kurita, Akinori Yabuki, Chong Chen, Shinsuke Kawagucci. Millisecond-scale behaviours of plankton quantified in situ and in vitro using the Event-based Vision Sensor (EVS) bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523686
2022
Shumpei Yamakawa, Yoshiki Hayashi, Koichiro Kako, Yasunori Sasakura, Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroshi Wada. Mechanism underlying retinoic acid-dependent metamorphosis in the starfish Developmental Biology, 492, 119-125
Yoshiaki Morino. Dynamic evolutionary history of spiralian-specific TALE homeobox genes in mollusks. Development, Growth & Differentiation 1–12 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/dgd.12779
2021
Supanat Phuangphong, Jumpei Tsunoda, Hiroshi Wada, Yoshiaki Morino. Duplication of spiralian-specific TALE genes and evolution of the blastomere specification mechanism in the bivalve lineage. EvoDevo 12:1 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-021-00181-2
Atsuko Yamazaki, Shumpei Yamakawa, Yoshiaki Morino, Yasunori Sasakura, Hiroshi Wada. Gene regulation of adult skeletogenesis in starfish and modifications during gene network co-option. Scientific reports 11:20111 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99521-4
Daichi G. Suzuki, Hiroshi Wada, Shin-ichi Higashijima. Generation of knock-in lampreys by CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome engineering. Scientific Reports 11:19836 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99338-1
Natsuhiro Ichinose, Takeshi Kawashima, Tetsushi Yada, Hiroshi Wada. Dynamical robustness and its structural dependence in biological networks. Journal of Theoretical Biology 526: 110808. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110808
2020
Hiromasa Yokoyama, Miho Yoshimura, Daichi G. Suzuki, Hiroki Higashiyama, Hiroshi Wada. Development of the lamprey velum and implications for the evolution of the vertebrate jaw. Developmental Dynamics 1-11 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.243
Atsuko Yamazaki, Yoshiaki Morino, Makoto Urata, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Takuya Minokawa, Ryohei Furukawa, Mariko Kondo, Hiroshi Wada. Pmar1/phb homeobox genes and the evolution of the double-negative gate for endomesoderm specification in echinoderms. Development 26;147(4) (2020) https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.182139
Shumpei Yamakawa, Yoshiaki Morino, Hisanori Kohtsuka, Hiroshi Wada. Retinoic Acid Signaling Regulates the Metamorphosis of Feather Stars (Crinoidea, Echinodermata): Insight into the Evolution of the Animal Life Cycle. Biomolecules 10:1, 37 (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10010037
2019
Shumpei Yamakawa, Yoshiaki Morino, Masanao Honda, Hiroshi Wada The Regulation of Metamorphosis by Environmental Cues and Rtinoic Acid Signaling in the the Lecithotrophic Larvae of the Starfish Astropecten latespinosus The Biological Bulletin 237: 213–226 (2019)
Hiromasa Yokoyama, Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroshi Wada, Identification of a unique lamprey gene with tandemly repeated sequences and pharyngeal chondrocyte-specific expression, Gene 701:9-14 (2019)
Emiko Iwata, Kaoru Tohmine, Hideyuki Jumonji, Tetsuya Yoshida, Yusuke Saito, Tamaki Okuno, Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroshi Wada Genetic origin of the two Galapagos tortoises in the Ueno Zoo, Japan based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, Current Herpetology 38:1 1–5 (2019)
Koji Yoshimura, Yoshiaki Morino, Masanao Honda, Hiroshi Wada Regeneration of the acorn worm pygochord with the implication for its convergent evolution with the notochord, Development, Growth & Differentiation, 61:1 5 8 –16 5 (2019)
2018
Natsuhiro Ichinose , Tetsushi Yada, Hiroshi Wada Asymmetry in indegree and outdegree distributions of gene regulatory networks arising from dynamical robustness Physical Review E 97:062315 (2018)
Shumpei Yamakawa, Yoshiaki Morino, Masanao Honda, Hiroshi Wada The role of retinoic acid signaling in starfish metamorphosis, EvoDevo, 9: 10 (2018)
Megumi Endo, Mamiko Hirose, Masanao Honda, Hiroyuki Koga, Yoshiaki Morino, Masato Kiyomoto, Hiroshi Wada Hidden genetic history of the Japanese sand dollar Peronella (Echinoidea: Laganidae) revealed by nuclear intron sequences, Gene, 659: 37-43 (2018)
2017
Yoshiaki Morino, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroshi Wada Expansion of TALE homeobox genes and the evolution of spiralian development, Nature ecology & evolution, 1: 1942-1949 (2017) プレスリリース
Natsuhiro Ichinose, Tsetushi Yada, Hiroshi Wada Estimating Optimal Sparseness of Developmental Gene Networks Using a Semi-quantitative Model, Plos One 12(4): e0176492 (2017)
2016
Yoshihisa Kurita, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroshi Wada, Evolution of the molluscan body plan: the case of the anterior adductor muscle of bivalves, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119: 240-249 (2016)
Kazunori Okada, Keiji Inohaya, Takeshi Mise, Akira Kudo, Shinji Takada, Hiroshi Wada, Reiterative expression of pax1 directs pharyngeal pouch segmentation in medaka (Oryzias latipes), Development, 143: 1800-1810 (2016)
Daichi G. Suzuki, Yuma Fukumoto, Miho Yoshimura, Yuji Yamazaki, Jun Kosaka, Shigeru Kuratani, Hiroshi Wada, Comparative morphology and development of extra-ocular muscles in the lamprey and gnathostomes reveal the ancestral state and developmental patterns of the vertebrate head, Zoological Letters, 2:10 (2016)
Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroyuki Koga, Hiroshi Wada, The conserved genetic background for pluteus arm development in brittle stars and sea urchin. Evolution & Development, 18:2 89-95 (2016)
Masakuni Mohri, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroshi Wada, Lineage tracing of the bivalve shell field with special interest in the descendants of the 2d blastomere, Biology Letters, 12(3), 20151055 (2016)
Takeshi Takeuchi, Ryo Koyanagi, Fuki Gyoja, Miyuki Kanda, Kanako Hisata, Manabu Fujie, Hiroki Goto, Shinichi Yamasaki, Kiyohito Nagai, Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Kazuyoshi Endo, Hirotoshi Endo, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Shigeharu Kinoshita, Shuichi Asakawa, Shugo Watabe, Noriyuki Satoh, Takeshi Kwashima, Bivalve-specific gene expansion in the pearl oyster genome: Implications of adaptation to a sessile lifestyle, Zoological letters, 2:3 (2016)
Hiroyuki Koga, Haruka Fujitani, Yoshiaki Morino, Norio Miyamoto, Jun Tsuchimoto, Tomoko F. Shibata, Masafumi Nozawa, Shuji Shigenobu, Atsushi Ogura, Kazunori Tachibana, Masato Kiyomoto, Shonan Amemiya, Hiroshi Wada, Experimental Approach Reveals the Role of alx1 in the Evolution of the Echinoderm Larval Skeleton, PloS one, 11(2), e0149067 (2016)
2015
Daichi G. Suzuki, On the etiology of the 'difference in secondary characteristics' in Aristotle De Generatione Animalium book 5, Tsukuba Classical Studies 8:19-29 (2015) (in Japanese)
Daichi G. Suzuki, Yasunori Murakami, Yuji Yamazaki, Hiroshi Wada, Expression patterns of Eph genes in the “dual visual development” of the lamprey and their significance in the evolution of vision in vertebrates, Evolution & Development 17(2):139-147 (2015)
Daichi G. Suzuki, Yasunori Murakami, Hector Escriva, Hiroshi Wada, A comparative examination of neural circuit and brain patterning between the lamprey and amphioxus reveals the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate visual center, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 523:251-261(2015)
Naoki Hashimoto, Yoshihisa Kurita, Kana Murakami, Hiroshi Wada, Cleavage pattern and development of isolated D blastomeres in bivalves, Journal of Experimental Zoology PartB, 324B(1):13-21 (2015)
2014
Daichi G. Suzuki, Biological, philosophical commentary on Aristotle De Generatione Animalium I: book 1, chapter 17-book 2, chapter 3. [in Japanese], Tsukuba Classical Studies, 7:1-22 (2014)
Honda, M., Kurita, T., Toda, M., and Ota, H., Phylogenetic Relationships, Genetic Divergence, Historical Biogeography and Conservation of an Endangered Gecko, Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae), from the Central Ryukyus, Japan, Zoological Science, 31(5):309-320 (2014)
Hiroyuki Koga, Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroshi Wada, The echinoderm larval skeleton as a possible model system for experimental evolutionary biology, genesis, 52(3):186-192 (2014)
Hiroki Ono, Zbynek Kozmik, Jr-Kai Yu, Hiroshi Wada, A novel N-terminal motif is responsible for the evolution of neural crest-specific gene-regulatory activity in vertebrate FoxD3, Developmental Biology, 385(2):396-404 (2014)
Masayoshi Tokita, Tomoki Nakayama, Development of the trigeminal motor neurons in parrots: Implications for the role of nervous tissue in the evolution of jaw muscle morphology, Journal of morphology 275(2):191-205 (2014)
2013
Daichi G. Suzuki, Biological, Philosophical Commentary on Aristotle De Generatione Animalium I: Book1, chapter 1-16, Tsukuba Classical Studies, 6:1-23 (2013) (in Japanese)
Norio Miyamoto, Hiroshi Wada, Hemichordate neurulation and the origin of the neural tube, Nature Communications, 4, 2713 (2013)
Hiroshi Miyamoto, Hirotoshi Endo, Naoki Hashimoto, Kurin limura, Yukinobu Isowa, Shigeharu Kinoshita, Tomohiro Kotaki, Tetsuji Masaoka, Takumi Miki, Seiji Nakayama, Chihiro Nogawa, Atsuto Notazawa, Fumito Ohmori, Isao Sarashina, Michio Suzuki, Ryousuke Takagi, Jun Takahashi, Takeshi Takeuchi, Naoki Yokoo, Nori Satoh, Haruhiko Toyohara, Tomoyuki Miyashita, Hiroshi Wada, Tetsuro Samata, Kazuyoshi Endo, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Shuichi Asakawa, Shugo Watabe, The Diversity of Shell Matrix Proteins: Genome-Wide Investigation of the Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata, Zoological Science 30(10):801-816 (2013)
Yoshiaki Morino, Kazunori Okada, Miyuki Niikura, Masanao Honda, Nori Satoh, Hiroshi Wada, A Genome-Wide Survey of Genes Encoding Transcription Factors in the Japanese Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata: I. Homeobox Genes, Zoological Science 30(10):851-857 (2013)
Hiroyuki Koga, Naoki Hashimoto, Daichi G. Suzuki, Hiroki Ono, Miho Yoshimura, Tatsumi Suguro, Yoshinari Yonehara, Takaaki Abe, Nori Satoh, Hiroshi Wada, A Genome-Wide Survey of Genes Encoding Transcription Factors in Japanese Pearl Oyster Pinctada fucata: II. Tbx, Fox, Ets, HMG, NFκB, bZIP, and C2H2 Zinc Fingers, Zoological Science 30(10):858-867 (2013)
Masayoshi Tokita, Win Chaeychomsri, Jindawan Siruntawineti, Developmental Basis of Toothlessness in Turtles: Insight into Convergent Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology, EVOLUTION, 67(1) 260-273 (2013)
Kurita, T., Aoyama, H. Saitoh, S. Shinzato, N. Honda, M., Toda, M, Development and characterization of 24 microsatellite markers in a eublepharid gecko, Goniurosaurus kuroiwae, Conservation Genetics Resources (2013)
2012
Masayoshi Tokita, Takaaki Abe, Kazuo Suzuki, The developmental basis of bat wing muscle, Nature Communications, 3, 1302 (2012)
Masayoshi Tokita, Tomoki Nakayama, Richard A. Schneider, Kiyokazu Agata, Molecular and cellular changes associated with the evolution of novel jaw muscles in parrots, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Epub (2012)
Masanao Honda, Masafumi Matsui, Atsushi Tominaga, Hidetoshi Ota, Satoshi Tanaka, Phylogeny and biogeography of the Anderson’s crocodile newt, Echinotriton andersoni (Amphibia: Caudata), as revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65, 2, 642-653 (2012)
Shigenori Karasawa, Masanao Honda, Taxonomic Study of the Burmoniscus ocellatus Complex (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) in Japan Shows Genetic Diversification in the Southern Ryukyus, Southwestern Japan, Zoological Science 29(8):527-537 (2012)
Yoshiaki Morino, Hiroyuki Koga, Kazunori Tachibana, Eiichi Shoguchi, Masato Kiyomoto, Hiroshi Wada, Heterochronic activation of VEGF signaling and the evolution of the skeleton in echinoderm pluteus larvae, Evolution and Development, 14:5 428-436 (2012)
Naoki Hashimoto, Yoshihisa Kurita, Hiroshi Wada, Developmental role of dpp in the gastropod shell plate and co-option of the dpp signaling pathway in the evolution of the operculum, Developmental Biology, 336, 2, 367-373 (2012)
2011
Atsushi Ito, Masakazu N. Aoki, Kensuke Yahata, Hiroshi Wada, Embryonic Development and Expression Analysis of Distal-less in Caprella scaura (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidea), The Biological Bulletin, 221, 2, 206-214 (2011)
R. Christian Solema, Frank Eamesb, Masayoshi Tokita and Richard A. Schneidera, Mesenchymal and mechanical mechanisms of secondary cartilage induction, Developmental Biology, 356, 1, 28-39 (2011)
Atsushi Ito,Masakazu N Aoki, Kensuke Yahata, Hiroshi Wada, Complicated evolution of the caprellid (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda) body plan, reacquisition or multiple losses of the thoracic limbs and pleons, Developmental Genes and Evolution, 221, 3, 133-40 (2011)
Yoshihisa Kurita, Hiroshi Wada, Evidence that gastropod torsion is driven by asymmetric cell proliferation activated by TGF-β signalling, Biology Letters, 7, 5, 759-762 (2011)
Satoshi Kaneto, Hiroshi Wada, Regeneration of amphioxus oral cirri and its skeletal rods: implication for the origin of the vertebrate skeleton, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B, 316B, 6, 409-417 (2011)
Tuoya Yao, Kaoru Ohtani, Shigeru Kuratani, Hiroshi Wada, Development of lamprey mucocartilage and its dorsal-ventral patterning by endothelin signaling, with insight into vertebrate jaw evolution, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B, 316B, 5, 339-346 (2011)
Kuriyama, T., Brandley. M.C., Katayama. A., Mori, A., Honda, M., Hasegawa, M., A time-calibrated phylogenetic approach to assessing the phylogeography, colonization history and phenotypic evolution of snakes in the Japanese Izu Islands, Journal of Biogeography 38(2):259?271 (2011)
Honda, M., Tominaga, A., Maeda, Y., Ota, H., Anderson's crocodile newt, Echinotriton andersoni, Herpetological Review 42(2):235 (2011)
2010
Atsushi Ito, Masakazu N Aoki, Shinichi Yokobori, Hiroshi Wada, The complete mitochondrial genome of Caprella scaura (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidea), with emphasis on the unique gene order pattern and duplicated control region, Mitochondrial DNA, 21, 183-190 (2010)
Hiroyuki Koga, Mioko Matsubara, Haruka Fujitani, Norio Miyamoto, Mieko Komatsu, Masato Kiyomoto, Koji Akasaka, Hiroshi Wada , Functional evolution of Ets in echinoderms with focus on the evolution of echinoderm larval skeletons, Development Genes and Evolution , 220, 107-115 (2010)
Kazunori Okada, Yuji Yamazaki, Shinichi Yokobori, Hiroshi Wada, Repetitive sequences in the lamprey mitochondrial DNA control region and speciation of Lethenteron, Gene, 465, 45-52 (2010)
Masahiko Yoneda, Toshiya Nakamura, Miho Murai, Hiroshi Wada, Evidence for the Heparin-Binding Ability of the Ascidian Xlink Domain and Insight into the Evolution of the Xlink Domain in Chordates, Journal of Molecular Evolution, 71, 51-59 (2010)
Norio Miyamoto, Yoko Nakajima, Hiroshi Wada, Yasunori Saito, Development of the nervous system in the acorn worm Balanoglossus simodensis: insights into nervous system evolution, Evolution & Development, 12, 416-424 (2010)
Masayoshi Tokita, Noriko Iwai, Development of the pseudothumb in frogs, Biology Letters, 6, 517-520 (2010)
Hiroshi Wada, Origin and Genetic Evolution of the Vertebrate Skeleton, Zoological Science, 27, 119-123 (2010)
Dai Suzuki, Matthew C. Brandley, Masayoshi Tokita, The mitochondrial phylogeny of an ancient lineage of ray-finned fishes (Polypteridae) with implications for the evolution of body elongation, pelvic fin loss, and craniofacial morphology in Osteichthyes, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10; 21 (2010)
2009
Miyuki Kanda, Hiroshi Wada, Shigeki Fujiwara, Epidermal expression of Hox1 is directly activated by retinoic acid in the Ciona intestinalis embryo, Developmental Biology, 335, 454-463 (2009)
Yoshihisa Kurita, Ryusaku Deguchi, Hiroshi Wada, Early development and cleavage pattern of the Japanese purple mussel Septifer virgatus, Zoological Science, 26, 814-820 (2009)
Mari Kobayashi, Hidetaka Furuya, Hiroshi Wada, Molecular markers comparing the extremely simple body plan of dicyemids to that of lophotrochozoans: insight from the expression patterns of Hox, Otx, and brachyury, Evolution & Development, 11, 582-589 (2009)
Tetsuro Ikuta, Norio Miyamoto, Yasunori Saito, Hiroshi Wada, Nori Satoh, Hidetoshi Saiga, Ambulacrarian prototypical Hox and ParaHox gene complements of the indirect-developing hemichordate Balanoglossus simodensis, Development Genes and Evolution, 219, 383-389 (2009)
Lei Teng, Hiroshi Wada, Shicui Zhang, Identification and functional characterization of legumain in amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri, Bioscience Reports, 30(3), 177-186 (2009)
Takeshi Kawashima, Shuichi Kawashima, Chisaki Tanaka, Miho Murai, Masahiko Yoneda, Nicholas H Putnum, Daniel S Rokhsar, Minoru Kanehisa, Nori Satoh, Hiroshi Wada, Domain shuffling and the evolution of vertebrates, Genome Research, 19, 1393-403 (2009)
Koryu Kin, Shota Kakoi, Hiroshi Wada, A novel role for dpp in the shaping of bivalve shells revealed in a conserved molluscan developmental progaram, Developmental Biology 329, 152-66 (2009)
2008
Tuoya Yao, Kaoru Ohtani, Hiroshi Wada, Whole-Mount Observation of Pharyngeal and TrabecularCartilage Development in Lampreys, Zoological Science 25, 976-81 (2008)
Sonoko Kinjo, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Hiroshi Wada, Evolutionary history of larval skeletal morphology in sea urchin Echinometridae (Echinoidea: Echinodermata) as deduced from mitochondrial DNA molecular phylogeny, Evolution & development 10, 632-41 (2008)
Kaoru Ohtani, Tuoya Yao, Mari Kobayashi, Rie Kusakabe, Shigeru Kuratani, Hiroshi Wada, Expression of Sox and fibrillar collagen genes in lamprey larval chondrogenesis with implications for the evolution of vertebrate cartilage, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B, 310B, 596-607(2008)
Shota Kakoi, Koryu Kin, Katsumi Miyazaki, Hiroshi Wada, Early development of the Japanese spiny oyster (Saccostrea kegaki): Characterization of some genetic markers, Zoological Science 25, 455-64 (2008)
Takeshi Mise, Minoru Iijima, Keiji Inohaya, Akira Kudo, Hiroshi Wada, Function of Pax1 and Pax9 in the sclerotome of medaka fish, Genesis 46, 185-92 (2008)
Atsushi Ito, Hiroshi Wada, Masakazu N. Aoki, A phylogenetic analysis of caprellid and corophioid amphipods (Crustacea) based on the 18S rRNA gene, with special emphasis on the phylogenetic position of Phtisicidae, Biological Bulletin 214, 176-83 (2008)
2007
Shuichi Kawashima, Takeshi Kawashima, Nicholas H. Putnum, Daniel. S Rokhser, Hiroshi Wada, Minoru Kanehisa, comparative pair-wise domain-combinations for screening the clade specific domain-architectures, Genome Informatics 19, 50-60 (2007)
2006
Takashi Suzuki, Daisuke Sakai, Noriko Osumi, Hiroshi Wada and Yoshio Wakamatsu, Sox genes regulate type 2 collagen expression in avian neural crest cells, Development, Growth and Differentiation, 48, 477-486 (2006)
Hiroshi Wada and Kaz Makabe, Genome duplications of early vertebrates as a possible chronicle of the evolutionary history of the neural crest, International Journal of Biological Sciences, 2, 133-141 (2006)
Hiroshi Wada, Makiko Okuyama, Nori Satoh and Shicui Zhang, Molecular evolution of fibrillar collagen in chordates, with implications for the evolution of vertebrate skeletons and chordate phylogeny, Evolution and Development, 8, 370-377 (2006)
Sonoko Kinjo, Tetsuya Uehara, Ikuko Yazaki, Yoshihisa Shirayama and Hiroshi Wada, Morphological diversity of larval skeletons in the sea urchin family Echinometridae (Echinoidea: Echinodermata), Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 86, 799-816 (2006)
Makiko Okuyama, Hiroshi Wada, Teruhisa Ishii, Phylogenetic relationships of freshwater bryozoans (Ectoprocta: Phylactolaemata) inferred from mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences, Zoologica Scripta, 35, 243-249 (2006)
Hiroshi Wada, Hector Escriva, Shicui Zhang and Vincent Laudet, Conserved RARE localization in amphioxus Hox clusters and implications for Hox code evolution in the vertebrate neural crest, Developmental Dynamics, 235, 1522-1531 (2006)
2005
Hiroshi Wada, Mari Kobayashi and Shicui Zhang, Ets identified as a trans-regulatory factor of amphioxus Hox2 by transgenic analysis using ascidian embryos, Developmental Biology, 285, 524-532 (2005)
Mioko Matsubara, Mieko Komatsu, Takeshi Araki, Shuichi Asakawa, Shin-ichi Yokobori, Kimitsuna Watanabe, Hiroshi Wada, The phylogenetic status of Paxillosida (Asteroidea) based on complete mitochondrial DNA sequences, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 36, 598-605 (2005)
Shin-ichi Yokobori, Tairo Oshima and Hiroshi Wada, Complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Doliolum nationalis with implications for evolution of urochordates, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 34, 273-283 (2005)
2004
Mioko Matsubara, Mieko Komatsu and Hiroshi Wada, Close relationship between Asterina and Solasteridae (Asteroidea) supported by both nuclear and mitochondrial gene molecular phylogenies, Zoological Science 21, 785-793 (2004)
2003
Xutong Sun, Makiko Okuyama, Katsumi Miyazaki, Shicui Zhang, Hiroshi Wada, An ascidian RING finger gene is specifically expressed in a single cell of larval ocellus, Gene 312, 111-116 (2003)
2001
Hiroshi Wada,Origin and evolution of the neural crest: a hypothetical reconstruction of its evolutionary history, Development, Growth and Differentiation 43, 509-520 (2001)
Hiroshi Wada and Noriyuki Satoh, Patterning the protochordate neural tube, Current Opinion in Neurobiology 11, 16-21 (2001)
2000
Miguel Manzanares*, Hiroshi Wada*, Nobue Itasaki* (*equally contributed authors), Paul Trainor, Robb Krumlauf, Peter W. H. Holland, Conservation and elaboration of Hox gene regulation during evolution of the vertebrate Head, Nature 408, 854-857 (2000)
1999
Hiroshi Wada, Jordi Garcia-Fernandez and Peter W. H. Holland, Colinear and segmental expression of amphioxus Hox genes, Developmental Biology, 213: 131-141 (1999)
1998
Hiroshi Wada, Hidetoshi Saiga, Noriyuki Satoh and Peter W. H. Holland, Tripartite organization of the ancestral chordate brain and the antiquity of placodes: insights from ascidianPax2/5/8,Hox and Otx genes, Development, 125: 1113-1122 (1998)
Hiroshi Wada, Evolutionary history of free swimming and sessile lifestyles in urochordates as deduced from 18S rDNA molecular phylogeny, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 15: 1189-1194 (1998)
1997
Hiroshi Wada, Peter W. H. Holland, Shigeru Sato, Hiroaki Yamamoto and Noriyuki Satoh, Neural tube is partially dorsalized by overexpression of HrPax-37: the ascidian homologue of Pax-3 and Pax-7, Developmental Biology, 187: 240-252 (1997)
1996
Hiroshi Wada, Mieko Komatsu and Noriyuki Satoh, Mitochondrial rDNA phylogeny of the Asteroidea suggests the primitiveness of Paxillosida, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 6: 97-106 (1996)
Hiroshi Wada, Peter W. H. Holland and Noriyuki Satoh, Origin of patterning in neural tubes, Nature, 384: 123 (1996)
1994
Hiroshi Wada and Noriyuki Satoh, Phylogenetic relationships among extant classes of echinoderms, as inferred from sequences of 18S rDNA, coincide with relationships deduced from the fossil record, Journal of Molecular Evolution, 38: 41-49 (1994)
Hiroshi Wada and Noriyuki Satoh, Details of the evolutionary history from invertebrates to vertebrates, as deduced from the sequences of 18SrDNA, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91: 1801-1804 (1994)
1992
Hiroshi Wada, Kazuhiro Makabe, Mitsuaki Nakauchi and Noriyuki Satoh, Phylogenetic relationships between solitary and colonial ascidians, as inferred from the sequence of the central regions of their respective 18S rDNAs, Biological Bulletin, 183: 448-455 (1992)