Taira Masanori
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences (Zoological Science), Depa
University of Tokyo
Japan
Biography
TAIRA Masanori is currently working as Associate Professor under Department of Biological Sciences (Zoological Science), Department of Biological Sciences (UG), Department of Biological Sciences (GR), Graduate School of Science
Research Interest
Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Publications
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Mii, Y. and Taira, M. (2009). Secreted Frizzled-related proteins enhance the diffusion of Wnt ligands and expand their signalling range. Development 136, 4083-4088.
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Venegas-Ferrin, M., Sudou, N., Taira, M. and del Pino, E. M. (2010). Comparison of Lim1 expression in embryos of frogs with different modes of reproduction. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 54, 195-202.
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Yamamoto, T., Tsukahara, T., Ishiguro, T., Hagiwara, H., Taira, M., Takeda, H. (2015). The medaka dhc2 mutant reveals conserved and distinct mechanisms of Hedgehog signaling in teleosts. BMC Dev Biol. 2015 Feb 3;15(1):9.
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Matsuda, Y., Uno, Y., Kondo, M., Gilchrist, M. J., Zorn, A. M., Rokhsar, D. S., Schmid, M., and Taira, M. (2015). A new nomenclature of Xenopus laevis chromosomes based on the phylogenetic relationship to Silurana/Xenopus tropicalis. Cytogenet. Genome Res. in press.
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Shibano, T., Mamada, H., Hakuno, F., Takahashi, S., and Taira, M. (2015). The inner nuclear membrane protein Nemp1 is a new type of RanGTP-binding protein in eukaryotes. PLOS One, in press.
