Publications
Hilda Mardiana Pratiwi, Masahiro Hirasawa, Kohki Kato, Keijiro Munakata, Shogo Ueda, Yuuta Moriyama, Reiko Yu, Toru Kawanishi, and Mikiko Tanaka(2023). Heterochronic development of pelvic fins in zebrafish: possible involvement of temporal regulation of pitx1 expression. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11: 1170691. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2023.1170691
Satomi F Ono, Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro , Osamu Kishida, Haruki Ochi and Mikiko Tanaka(2023). Air-breathing behavior underlies the cell death in limbs of Rana pirica tadpoles. Zoological Letters 9, 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-022-00199-x
Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro, Reiko Yu and Mikiko Tanaka (2020). Regulation of the limb shape during the development of the Chinese softshell turtles. Evol. Dev. 2020, e12352.
Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro, and Mikiko Tanaka (2020). Environmental Oxygen is a Key Modulator of Development and Evolution: From Molecules to Ecology. BioEssays 42, 202000025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202000025
Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro, Kaori Kabashima, Haruki Ochi, Keijiro Munakata, Chika Nishimori, Mara Laslo, James Hanken, and Mikiko Tanaka (2019). Environmental oxygen exposure allows for the evolution of interdigital cell death in limb patterning. Developmental Cell 50, 155-166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2019.05.025
Kenta Kawahata*, Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro*, Shogo Ueda, Guojun Sheng, Yuuta Moriyama, Chika Nishimori, Reiko Yu,
Makoto Koizumi, Masataka Okabe, and Mikiko Tanaka (2019). Evolution of the avian digital pattern. Scientific Reports 9, article number 8560. (*These authors contributed equally to this work)
Localization of β-catenin and Islet in the pelvic fin field in zebrafih. Zoological Science 36, 365-371.
Development, Growth & Differentiation Special Issue “Ecology, Evolution and Development” 61, 3-4. (invited)
Involvement of HGF/MET signaling in appendicular muscle development in cartilaginous fish. Development, Growth & Differentiation Special Issue “Ecology, Evolution and Development” (*These authors contributed equally to this work) (invited) 61, 97-103.
Reiko Yu, Ryuichiro Nakato, Katsuhiko Shirahige, and Mikiko Tanaka (2019). Cux2 refines the forelimb field by controlling expression of Raldh2 and Hox genes. Biology Open 8, bio040584.
transition in the mudskipper (Periophthalmus modestus). Zoological Letters 4, 23. doi: 10.1186/s40851-018-0105-z.
Alterations in anterior-posterior patterning and its accompanying changes along the proximal-distal axis during the fin-to-limb transition. Genesis 56, e23053. (Invited)
Mikiko Tanaka (2017). Migratory appendicular muscles precursor cells in the common ancestor to all vertebrates Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 1731-1736. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0330-4.
Mikiko Tanaka (2017). Evolution of vertebrate limb development (version 2). Essential for Life Sciences doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002099.pub2. (Invited)
Shogo Ueda, Takayuki Suzuki and Mikiko Tanaka (2017).
Transgene introduction into the chick limb bud by electroporation. Methods in Molecular Biology: Avian and reptilian Developmental Biology. 1650, 203-208. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7216-6_13. (Invited)
Expression patterns of Sema3A in developing amniote limbs: with reference to the diversification of peripheral nerve innervation. Dev. Growth Differ. 59, 270-285. doi: 10.1111/dgd.12364.
The fin to limb transition as the re-organisation of a Turing pattern. Nature Communications 7, Article number 11582
Developmental mechanism of limb field specification along the anterior-posterior axis during vertebrate evolution. J. Dev. Biol. 4, 18. (Invited)
Fins into limbs: autopod acquisition and anterior elements reduction by modifying gene networks involving 5’Hox, Gli3 and Shh. Dev. Biol. 413, 1-7
PICCORO:A technique for manipulating the activity of transcription factors with blue light. Methods in Cell Biology: The Zebrafish, 4th edition, Volume 3-Genetics, Genomics, and Transcriptomics. 135, 289-295. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2016.03.009. (Invited)
A shift in anterior-posterior positional information underlies the fin-to-limb evolution. eLife DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07048
Anterior migration of lateral plate mesodermal cells during embryogenesis of the pufferfish Takifugu niphobles: Insight into the rostral positioning of pelvic fins. J. Anat. 227, 81-88.
Development of the lateral plate mesoderm in medaka Oryzias latipes and Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus: insight into the diversification of pelvic fin position. J. Anat. 225, 659-674.
Kohsuke Kataoka, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Cheryll Tickle and Mikiko Tanaka (2014). Dimeric combinations of MafB, cFos and cJun control the apoptosis-survival balance in limb morphogenesis. Development 141, 2885-2894. [PubMed] This paper is recommended by Faculty of 1000.
Blue light-mediated manipulation of transcription factor activity in vivo. ACS Chem. Biol. 8, 2649-2653. [PubMed]
field specification and limb initiation. Dev. Growth Differ. 55, 149-163. (Invited) [PubMed]
Evol. Dev. 14,412-420 [PubMed]
Tanaka* (2011). Photoporation of biomolecules into single cells in living vertebrate embryos induced by a femtosecond laser amplifier. PLoS One 6, e27677.(*Co-corresponding authors. These authors contributed equally to this work.) [PubMed]
Dev. Biol. 355, 164-172. (*Co-corresponding authors.) [PubMed]
pelvic fins among teleost fishes. Evol. Dev. 13, 380-388. [PubMed]
Mikiko Tanaka(2010). Allometric growth of the trunk leads to the rostral shift of the pelvic fin in teleost fishes. Dev. Biol.. 347, 236-245. (*These authors contributed equally to this work) [PubMed]
japonicum. Evol. Dev. 12, 34-44. [PubMed]
leads to morphological changes during vertebrate fin evolution. PLoS ONE, 4, e5121. (*These authors contributed equally to this work) [PubMed]
Encylopedia of Life Sciences.
Mikiko Tanaka (2008). Identification of four Engrailed genes in the Japanese river lamprey, Lethenteron japonicum. Dev.Dyn. 237, 1581-1589 [PubMed]
Shimogori and Norihiro Okada (2008). Possible involvement of SINEs in mammalian-specific brain formation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 105, 4220-4225. [PubMEd]
patterned scales in the embryonic cat shark tail. Biol. Lett.. 4, 87-90. This paper is evaluated as one of ‘Hidden jewels” paper by Faculty of 1000. [PubMed]
Paul Buxton, Despina Stamataki, Mikiko Tanaka, Andrea E Munsterberg, James Briscoe, Cheryll Tickle and Dave W Burt (2006). The Chicken talpid3 gene encodes a novel protein essential for hedgehog signaling. Genes & Dev. 20, 1365-1377. This paper is evaluated as one of ‘Exceptional” paper by Faculty of 1000. [PubMed]
and John H Postlethwait (2005). Developmental genetic basis for the evolution of pelvic fin loss in the pufferfish Takifugu rubripes. Dev. Biol. 281, 227-239 [PubMed]
gene and clues to the basis of morphological diversification of three-spine sticklebacks. Curr. Biol. 13, R951-R952. [PubMed]
factor-induced gene expression and cartilage pattern formation in chick limb bud recombinants. Develop. Growth & Differ. 43, 165-175. [PubMed]
Hiroyuki Ide (1998). Apical ectodermal ridge induction by the transplantation of En-1- overexpressing ectoderm in chick limb bud. Develop. Growth & Differ. 40, 423-429. [PubMed]
expression of Hoxa-11 and Hoxa-13 during limb muscle patterning. Development 125, 1325-1335 [PubMed]
acid synthesis, modifies chick limb development. Dev. Biol. 175, 239-247 [PubMed]