| The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis: insights into chordate and vertebrate origins P Dehal, Y Satou, RK Campbell, J Chapman, B Degnan, A De Tomaso, ... Science 298 (5601), 2157-2167, 2002 | 1841 | 2002 |
| The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology LZ Holland, R Albalat, K Azumi, È Benito-Gutiérrez, MJ Blow, ... Genome research 18 (7), 1100-1111, 2008 | 567 | 2008 |
| Tripartite organization of the ancestral chordate brain and the antiquity of placodes: insights from ascidian Pax-2/5/8, Hox and Otx genes H Wada, H Saiga, N Satoh, PWH Holland Development 125 (6), 1113-1122, 1998 | 344 | 1998 |
| Ciona intestinalis Hox gene cluster: Its dispersed structure and residual colinear expression in development T Ikuta, N Yoshida, N Satoh, H Saiga Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences 101 (42), 15118-15123, 2004 | 225 | 2004 |
| Gene expression profiles in Ciona intestinalis tailbud embryos Y Satou, N Takatori, L Yamada, Y Mochizuki, M Hamaguchi, H Ishikawa, ... Oxford University Press for The Company of Biologists Limited 128 (15), 2893 …, 2001 | 187 | 2001 |
| Two lineages of mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease (MASP) in vertebrates Y Endo, M Takahashi, M Nakao, H Saiga, H Sekine, M Matsushita, ... The Journal of Immunology 161 (9), 4924-4930, 1998 | 186 | 1998 |
| Ciona intestinalis cDNA projects: expressed sequence tag analyses and gene expression profiles during embryogenesis Y Satou, N Takatori, S Fujiwara, T Nishikata, H Saiga, T Kusakabe, ... Gene 287 (1-2), 83-96, 2002 | 149 | 2002 |
| A genomewide survey of developmentally relevant genes in Ciona intestinalis II. Genes for homeobox transcription factors S Wada, M Tokuoka, E Shoguchi, K Kobayashi, A Di Gregorio, ... Development genes and evolution 213, 222-234, 2003 | 146 | 2003 |
| Spatially and temporally regulated expression of the LIM class homeobox gene Hrlim suggests multiple distinct functions in development of the ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi S Wada, Y Katsuyama, S Yasugi, H Saiga Mechanisms of development 51 (1), 115-126, 1995 | 141 | 1995 |
| Left-right asymmetric expression of BbPtx, a Ptx-related gene, in a lancelet species and the developmental left-sidedness in deuterostomes K Yasui1, S Zhang, M Uemura, H Saiga Development 127 (1), 187-195, 2000 | 135 | 2000 |
| Hroth, an orthodenticle-related homeobox gene of the ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi: its expression and putative roles in the axis formation during embryogenesis S Wada, Y Katsuyama, Y Sato, C Itoh, H Saiga Mechanisms of development 60 (1), 59-71, 1996 | 130 | 1996 |
| Expression of the labial group Hox gene HrHox-1 and its alteration induced by retinoic acid in development of the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi Y Katsuyama, S Wada, S Yasugi, H Saiga Development 121 (10), 3197-3205, 1995 | 127 | 1995 |
| Origin of mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease (MASP)-1 and MASP-3 involved in the lectin complement pathway traced back to the invertebrate, amphioxus Y Endo, M Nonaka, H Saiga, Y Kakinuma, A Matsushita, M Takahashi, ... The Journal of Immunology 170 (9), 4701-4707, 2003 | 116 | 2003 |
| Early specification of intestinal epithelium in the chicken embryo: A study on the localization and regulation of CdxA expression Y Ishii, K Fukuda, H Saiga, S Matsushita, S Yasugi Development, growth & differentiation 39 (5), 643-653, 1997 | 111 | 1997 |
| Long tandem arrays of complex repeat units in Chironomus telomeres. H Saiga, JE Edström The EMBO Journal 4 (3), 799-804, 1985 | 105 | 1985 |
| Dynamic change in the expression of developmental genes in the ascidian central nervous system: revisit to the tripartite model and the origin of the midbrain–hindbrain … T Ikuta, H Saiga Developmental biology 312 (2), 631-643, 2007 | 103 | 2007 |
| Making very similar embryos with divergent genomes: conservation of regulatory mechanisms of Otx between the ascidians Halocynthia roretzi and Ciona intestinalis I Oda-Ishii, V Bertrand, I Matsuo, P Lemaire, H Saiga Oxford University Press for The Company of Biologists Limited 132 (7), 1663-1674, 2005 | 94 | 2005 |
| Comprehensive survey and classification of homeobox genes in the genome of amphioxus, Branchiostoma floridae N Takatori, T Butts, S Candiani, M Pestarino, DEK Ferrier, H Saiga, ... Development genes and evolution 218, 579-590, 2008 | 91 | 2008 |
| HrNodal, the ascidian nodal-related gene, is expressed in the left side of the epidermis, and lies upstream of HrPitx J Morokuma, M Ueno, H Kawanishi, H Saiga, H Nishida Development genes and evolution 212, 439-446, 2002 | 91 | 2002 |
| Expression of AMD 1, a gene for a MyoD 1-related factor in the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi sato Araki, H Saiga, KW Makabe, N Satoh Roux's archives of developmental biology 203, 320-327, 1994 | 75 | 1994 |
