Hajime Ogino

The paper examines inner ear morphogenesis across 12 vertebrate species, finding that divergent mechanical processes in tissue expansion are coordinated with developmental tempo to maintain conserved morphology.

This study identifies a variant in the ACTB gene associated with orofacial clefts in BWCFF and shows it impairs actin dynamics and epithelial cell function.

The paper uses Nanopore sequencing to determine the complete mitochondrial genome of Buergeria japonica, revealing long repeat regions in its control region that may be linked to thermal adaptation.

The paper shows that the shh limb enhancer MFCS1 is active in patterned limb regeneration in tadpoles but not in hypomorphic regeneration in froglets, suggesting epigenetic regulation is key.

The paper investigates how retinoic acid (RA) controls pax8 expression during Xenopus pronephros development by identifying meis3 and hox genes as downstream regulators.