T. Miyashita

Positive and negative effects of land abandonment on butterfly communities revealed by a hierarchical sampling design across climatic regions

This study examines how land abandonment affects butterfly communities across different climates, finding that species with cold niches and open habitats are more negatively impacted.

Gorlin syndrome-induced pluripotent stem cells form medulloblastoma with loss of heterozygosity in PTCH1

This study shows that Gorlin syndrome patient-derived iPSCs form medulloblastoma in mice, with one tumor showing PTCH1 loss of heterozygosity.

nkx3.2 mutant zebrafish accommodate jaw joint loss through a phenocopy of the head shapes of Paleozoic jawless fish

This paper shows that nkx3.2 mutant zebrafish develop skull shapes similar to ancient jawless fish due to jaw joint loss, indicating functional constraints on skull morphology.

Dynactin has two antagonistic regulatory domains and exerts opposing effects on dynein motility

This study identifies two antagonistic domains in dynactin that regulate dynein motility, with DCTN1A promoting processive movement and DCTN1B inhibiting it.