Cephalochordate melanopsin: evolutionary linkage between invertebrate visual cells and vertebrate photosensitive retinal ganglion cells M Koyanagi, K Kubokawa, H Tsukamoto, Y Shichida, A Terakita Current biology 15 (11), 1065-1069, 2005 | 284 | 2005 |
Shark genomes provide insights into elasmobranch evolution and the origin of vertebrates Y Hara, K Yamaguchi, K Onimaru, M Kadota, M Koyanagi, SD Keeley, ... Nature ecology & evolution 2 (11), 1761-1771, 2018 | 201 | 2018 |
Jellyfish vision starts with cAMP signaling mediated by opsin-Gs cascade M Koyanagi, K Takano, H Tsukamoto, K Ohtsu, F Tokunaga, A Terakita Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (40), 15576-15580, 2008 | 174 | 2008 |
Homologs of vertebrate Opn3 potentially serve as a light sensor in nonphotoreceptive tissue M Koyanagi, E Takada, T Nagata, H Tsukamoto, A Terakita Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (13), 4998-5003, 2013 | 173 | 2013 |
Counterion displacement in the molecular evolution of the rhodopsin family A Terakita, M Koyanagi, H Tsukamoto, T Yamashita, T Miyata, Y Shichida Nature structural & molecular biology 11 (3), 284-289, 2004 | 166 | 2004 |
Depth perception from image defocus in a jumping spider T Nagata, M Koyanagi, H Tsukamoto, S Saeki, K Isono, Y Shichida, ... Science 335 (6067), 469-471, 2012 | 162 | 2012 |
Bistable UV pigment in the lamprey pineal M Koyanagi, E Kawano, Y Kinugawa, T Oishi, Y Shichida, S Tamotsu, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (17), 6687-6691, 2004 | 158 | 2004 |
Diversity of animal opsin-based pigments and their optogenetic potential M Koyanagi, A Terakita Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics 1837 (5), 710-716, 2014 | 148 | 2014 |
Amphioxus homologs of Go-coupled rhodopsin and peropsin having 11-cis-and all-trans-retinals as their chromophores M Koyanagi, A Terakita, K Kubokawa, Y Shichida FEBS letters 531 (3), 525-528, 2002 | 133 | 2002 |
Sponge Pax cDNA Related to Pax-2/5/8 and Ancient Gene Duplications in the Pax Family D Hoshiyama, H Suga, N Iwabe, M Koyanagi, N Nikoh, K Kuma, ... Journal of molecular evolution 47, 640-648, 1998 | 123 | 1998 |
Extensive gene duplication in the early evolution of animals before the parazoan–eumetazoan split demonstrated by G proteins and protein tyrosine kinases from sponge and hydra H Suga, M Koyanagi, D Hoshiyama, K Ono, N Iwabe, K Kuma, T Miyata Journal of molecular evolution 48, 646-653, 1999 | 119 | 1999 |
Expression and comparative characterization of Gq‐coupled invertebrate visual pigments and melanopsin A Terakita, H Tsukamoto, M Koyanagi, M Sugahara, T Yamashita, ... Journal of neurochemistry 105 (3), 883-890, 2008 | 108 | 2008 |
Gq‐coupled Rhodopsin Subfamily Composed of Invertebrate Visual Pigment and Melanopsin† M Koyanagi, A Terakita Photochemistry and Photobiology 84 (4), 1024-1030, 2008 | 100 | 2008 |
Absorption characteristics of vertebrate non-visual opsin, Opn3 T Sugihara, T Nagata, B Mason, M Koyanagi, A Terakita PLoS One 11 (8), e0161215, 2016 | 78 | 2016 |
Molecular evolution of arthropod color vision deduced from multiple opsin genes of jumping spiders M Koyanagi, T Nagata, K Katoh, S Yamashita, F Tokunaga Journal of Molecular Evolution 66, 130-137, 2008 | 78 | 2008 |
Identification and characterization of a protostome homologue of peropsin from a jumping spider T Nagata, M Koyanagi, H Tsukamoto, A Terakita Journal of Comparative Physiology A 196, 51-59, 2010 | 69 | 2010 |
Evolution and mechanism of spectral tuning of blue-absorbing visual pigments in butterflies M Wakakuwa, A Terakita, M Koyanagi, DG Stavenga, Y Shichida, ... PLoS One 5 (11), e15015, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
Phospholipase C cDNAs from sponge and hydra: antiquity of genes involved in the inositol phospholipid signaling pathway M Koyanagi, K Ono, H Suga, N Iwabe, T Miyata FEBS letters 439 (1-2), 66-70, 1998 | 66 | 1998 |
The magnitude of the light-induced conformational change in different rhodopsins correlates with their ability to activate G proteins H Tsukamoto, DL Farrens, M Koyanagi, A Terakita Journal of biological chemistry 284 (31), 20676-20683, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
Expression of UV-sensitive parapinopsin in the iguana parietal eyes and its implication in UV-sensitivity in vertebrate pineal-related organs S Wada, E Kawano-Yamashita, M Koyanagi, A Terakita PLoS One 7 (6), e39003, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |