| Sex determination: why so many ways of doing it? D Bachtrog, JE Mank, CL Peichel, M Kirkpatrick, SP Otto, TL Ashman, ... PLoS biology 12 (7), e1001899, 2014 | 1390 | 2014 |
| A role for a neo-sex chromosome in stickleback speciation J Kitano, JA Ross, S Mori, M Kume, FC Jones, YF Chan, DM Absher, ... Nature 461 (7267), 1079-1083, 2009 | 431 | 2009 |
| Tamalin, a PDZ domain-containing protein, links a protein complex formation of group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors and the guanine nucleotide exchange factor cytohesins J Kitano, K Kimura, Y Yamazaki, T Soda, R Shigemoto, Y Nakajima, ... Journal of Neuroscience 22 (4), 1280-1289, 2002 | 220 | 2002 |
| Turnover of sex chromosomes and speciation in fishes J Kitano, CL Peichel Environmental biology of fishes 94 (3), 549-558, 2012 | 211 | 2012 |
| Adaptive divergence in the thyroid hormone signaling pathway in the stickleback radiation J Kitano, SC Lema, JA Luckenbach, S Mori, Y Kawagishi, M Kusakabe, ... Current Biology 20 (23), 2124-2130, 2010 | 187 | 2010 |
| Reverse evolution of armor plates in the threespine stickleback J Kitano, DI Bolnick, DA Beauchamp, MM Mazur, S Mori, T Nakano, ... Current Biology 18 (10), 769-774, 2008 | 187 | 2008 |
| Sexual Dimorphism in the External Morphology of the Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus Aculeatus) J Kitano, S Mori, CL Peichel Copeia 2007 (2), 336-349, 2007 | 187 | 2007 |
| A key metabolic gene for recurrent freshwater colonization and radiation in fishes A Ishikawa, N Kabeya, K Ikeya, R Kakioka, JN Cech, N Osada, MC Leal, ... Science 364 (6443), 886-889, 2019 | 176 | 2019 |
| PICK1 interacts with and regulates PKC phosphorylation of mGLUR7 KK Dev, Y Nakajima, J Kitano, SP Braithwaite, JM Henley, S Nakanishi Journal of Neuroscience 20 (19), 7252-7257, 2000 | 176 | 2000 |
| Y fuse? Sex chromosome fusions in fishes and reptiles MW Pennell, M Kirkpatrick, SP Otto, JC Vamosi, CL Peichel, N Valenzuela, ... PLoS genetics 11 (5), e1005237, 2015 | 170 | 2015 |
| The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification CW Twining, JR Bernhardt, AM Derry, CM Hudson, A Ishikawa, N Kabeya, ... Ecology Letters 24 (8), 1709-1731, 2021 | 135 | 2021 |
| Phenotypic divergence and reproductive isolation between sympatric forms of Japanese threespine sticklebacks JUN Kitano, S Mori, CL Peichel Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91 (4), 671-685, 2007 | 119 | 2007 |
| Sex chromosome turnover contributes to genomic divergence between incipient stickleback species K Yoshida, T Makino, K Yamaguchi, S Shigenobu, M Hasebe, M Kawata, ... PLoS Genetics 10 (3), e1004223, 2014 | 115 | 2014 |
| The genomic landscape at a late stage of stickleback speciation: High genomic divergence interspersed by small localized regions of introgression M Ravinet, K Yoshida, S Shigenobu, A Toyoda, A Fujiyama, J Kitano PLoS genetics 14 (5), e1007358, 2018 | 110 | 2018 |
| Purifying selection maintains dosage-sensitive genes during degeneration of the threespine stickleback Y chromosome MA White, J Kitano, CL Peichel Molecular Biology and Evolution 32 (8), 1981-1995, 2015 | 108 | 2015 |
| Direct interaction and functional coupling between metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1 and voltage-sensitive Cav2. 1 Ca2+ channel J Kitano, M Nishida, Y Itsukaichi, I Minami, M Ogawa, T Hirano, Y Mori, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (27), 25101-25108, 2003 | 99 | 2003 |
| The contribution of female meiotic drive to the evolution of neo-sex chromosomes K Yoshida, J Kitano Evolution 66 (10), 3198-3208, 2012 | 94 | 2012 |
| Tamalin is a scaffold protein that interacts with multiple neuronal proteins in distinct modes of protein-protein association J Kitano, Y Yamazaki, K Kimura, T Masukado, Y Nakajima, S Nakanishi Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (17), 14762-14768, 2003 | 90 | 2003 |
| Diversity and convergence of sex-determination mechanisms in teleost fish J Kitano, S Ansai, Y Takehana, Y Yamamoto Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 12 (1), 233-259, 2024 | 89 | 2024 |
| Hyperpolarization‐activated, cyclic nucleotide‐gated HCN2 cation channel forms a protein assembly with multiple neuronal scaffold proteins in distinct modes of protein–protein … K Kimura, J Kitano, Y Nakajima, S Nakanishi Genes to Cells 9 (7), 631-640, 2004 | 85 | 2004 |