・About Laboratory for Biothermology
・Overview
・Member
・Research achievements
＜Original Articles＞
【2021】【2020】【2019】【2018】【2017】【2016】【2015】【2014】【2013】【2012】
【2011】【2010】【2009】【Before 2008】

-Aiming to elucidate the biological significance of heat and temperature-

-Temperature biology-

 

Many organisms have a heat shock response mechanism that protects cells from heat stress (Fig. 1, left). Laboratory for Biothermology is focusing on heat shock transcription factor (HSF) 1 as one means for clarifying the connection between temperature and organisms, and is conducting research to clarify its temperature sensing mechanism and activation kinetics.
Currently, we are working on the elucidation of the molecular mechanism of HSF1 activation from multiple biological species such as medaka, medaka-related species, flounder, and frog from a biological perspective.
In addition, it is necessary to know the thermophysical properties of biological materials in order to investigate the connection between temperature and living things. Therefore, we are also developing a microscope technology that can measure the temperature of target cells in vivo while heating locally. So far, we have constructed a high-speed living body temperature imaging system (Fig. 2) by applying a fluorescent protein probe (Reference 1) that can measure temperature from the ratio of fluorescence intensity of two wavelengths. Using this, we are trying to analyze thermophysical properties of biological materials.
Reference1. Nakano M, Arai Y, Kotera I, Okabe K, Kamei Y, Nagai T. (2017) Genetically encoded ratiometric fluorescent thermometer with wide range and rapid response. PLoS One, 12(2), e0172344.
 

-Local gene expression technology and its improvement-

 

By utilizing the heat shock response and inserting the target gene downstream of the heat shock promoter and introducing it into an organism, it becomes possible to induce the expression of the target gene by heat shock. Laboratory for Biothermology possesses technology that can induce (manipulate) the expression of target genes only by target cells by focusing and irradiating infrared laser with a microscope to heat single cells in the body (Fig. 1, right). 
This method (IR-LEGO method: Reference 4) is applied to model organisms such as medaka, zebrafish, and Arabidopsis. Many collaborative studies (references 2 and 3) with researchers outside of Japan are carried out using this technology. On the other hand, the current IR-LEGO has some difficulties. In order to overcome it, we are applying the above research to improve IR-LEGO.
Reference 2. Okuyama T, Yokoi S, Abe H, Isoe Y, Suehiro Y, Imada H, Tanaka M, Kawasaki T, Yuba S, Taniguchi Y, Kamei Y, Okubo K, Shimada A, Naruse K, Takeda H, Oka Y, Kubo T and Takeuchi H. (2014) A neural mechanism underlying mating preferences for familiar individuals in medaka fish. Science, 343, 91-94.
Reference 3. Shimada A, Kawasishi T, Kaneko T, Yoshihara H, Yano T, Inohaya K, Kinoshita M, Kamei Y, Tamura K and Takeda H. (2013) Trunk exoskeleton in teleosts is mesodermal in origin. Nat. Commun., 4, 1639.
Reference 4. Kamei Y, Suzuki M, Watanabe K, Fujimori K, Kawasaki T, Deguchi T, Yoneda Y, Todo T, Takagi S, Funatsu T and Yuba S. (2009) Infrared laser-mediated gene induction in targeted single cells in vivo. Nat. Methods 6, 79-81.(Pubmed)

Specially appointed Associate Professor

Specially appointed Assistant Professor

JSPS Research Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher

Technical Assistants

KINOSHITA, Chie
 

Recruitment

・Graduate student
We also accept students as graduate students of SOKENDAI, dispatched from their graduate school, and internship students.
・Researcher
Laboratory for Biothermology is looking for postdocs. Please contact us for details such as themes.
Please contact us for details.
ykamei [at] nibb.ac.jp
 

< Original Articles >

【2021】【2020】【2019】【2018】【2017】【2016】【2015】【2014】【2013】
【2012】【2011】【2010】【2009】【Before 2008】
 

• (78)  Yuji Nishiike, Daichi Miyazoe, Rie Togawa, Keiko Yokoyama, Kiyoshi Nakasone, Masayoshi Miyata, Yukiko Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takeshi Todo, Tomoko Ishikawa-Fujiwara, Kaoru Ohno, Takeshi Usami, Yoshitaka Nagahama, Kataaki Okubo. (2021)
• Estrogen receptor 2b is the major determinant of sex-typical mating behavior and sexual preference in medaka.
• Current Biology, 31, 1-12. Press Release（The University of Tokyo）
• (77)  Chih-Wei Zeng, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shuji Shigenobu, Jin-Chuan Sheu, Huai-Jen Tsai. (2021)
• Injury-induced Cavl-expressing cells at lesion rostral side play major roles in spinal cord regeneration.
• Open Biology, 11, 200304.
• (76)  Yusuke Ashida, Yusuke Honma, Noriaki Miura, Takatoshi Shibuya, Hayao Kikuchi, Yosuke Tamada, Yasuhiro Kamei, Atsushi Matsuda, Masayuki Hattori. (2020)
• Imaging performance of microscopy adaptive-optics system using scene-based wavefront sensing.
• J. Biomed. Optics, 25, 123707.

• (75)  Akiko Kondow, Kiyoshi Ohnuma, Yasuhiro Kamei, Atsushi Taniguchi, Ryoma Bise, Yoichi Sato, Hisateru Yamaguchi, Shigenori Nonaka, Keiichiro Hashimoto. (2020)
• Light-sheet microscopy-based 3D single-cell tracking reveals a correlation between cell cycle and the start of endoderm cell internalization in early zebrafish development.
• Dev. Growth Differ. 62, 495-502.
• 
• This paper was selected as a cover art.
• (74)  Yuko Watanabe, Kazuho Okuya, Yuki Takada, Masato Kinoshita, Saori Yokoi, Shinichi Chisada, Yasuhiro Kamei, Hideki Tatsukawa, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Hideki Abe, Hisashi Hashimoto, Kiyotaka Hitomi. (2020)
  Gene disruption of medaka (Oryzias latipes) orthologue for mammalian tissue-type transglutaminase (TG2) causes movement retardation.
  J Biochem., 168, 213-222.
• (73)  Nodoka Kanazawa, Mayuko Goto, Yumi Harada, Chiaki Takimoto, Yuuka Sasaki, Tamaki Uchikawa, Yasuhiro Kamei, Megumi Matsuo, Shoji Fukamachi. (2020)
  Frontiers in Genetics, 11, fgene.2020.00801.
• (72)  Saori Yokoi, Kiyoshi Naruse, Yasuhiro Kamei, Satoshi Ansai, Masato Kinoshita, Mari Mito, Shintaro Iwasaki, Shuntaro Inoue, Teruhiro Okuyama, Shinichi Nakagawa, Larry J Young, Hideaki Takeuchi. (2020)
  Sexually dimorphic role of oxytocin in medaka mate choice.
  PNAS, 117, 4802-4808.
• (71)  Yoshihiro Fujikawa, Tomoko Ishikawa‐Fujiwara, Tony Kuo, Norio Shinkai, Tatsuma Shoji, Takashi Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yoshiyuki Sakuraba, Ayuko Sato, Masato Kinoshita, Yoichi Gondo, Shunsuke Yuba, Tohru Tsujimura, Jun Sese, Takeshi Todo. (2020)
  Involvement of Rev1 in alkylating agent-induced loss of heterozygosity in Oryzias latipes.
  Genes Cells, 25, 124-138. 

• (70)  Makiko Kosugi, Shin-Ichiro Ozawa, Yuichiro Takahashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shigeru Itoh, Sakae Kudoh, Yasuhiro Kashino, Hiroyuki Koike. (2019)
  Red-shifted chlorophyll a bands allow uphill energy transfer to photosystem Ⅱ reaction centers in an aerial green alga, Prasiola crispa, harvested in Antarctica,
  Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg., 1861, 148139. 
• (69)  Gembu Abe, Toshinori Hayashi, Keigo Yoshida, Takafumi Yoshida, Hidehiro Kudoh, Joe Sakamoto, Ayumi Konishi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takashi Takeuchi, Koji Tamura, Hitoshi Yokoyama. (2019)
  Insights regarding skin regeneration n non-amniote vertebrates: Skin regeneration without scar formation and potential step-up to a higher level of regeneration.
  Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 100,109-121. 
• (68)  Hironobu Ikehata, Toshio Mori, Yasuhiro Kamei, Thierry Douki, Jean Cadet, Masayuki Yamamoto. (2020)
  Wavelength- and tissue-dependent variations in the mutagenicity of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in mouse skin.
  Photochem Photobiol., php. 13159. 
• (67)  Yusuke Nakane, Ai Shinomiya, Wataru Ota, Keisuke Ikegami, Tsuyoshi Shimmura, Sho-Ichi Higashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takashi Yoshimura. (2019)
  Action spectrum for photoperiodic control of thyroid-stimulating hormone in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica).
  PLoS One, 14, e0222106.
• (66)  Dukhyun Hwang, Satomi Wada, Azusa Takahashi, Hiroko Urawa, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shuh-ichi Nishikawa. (2019)
  Development of a Heat-inducible Gene Expression System using Female Gametophytes of Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Plant Cell Physiol., 60, 2564-2572. 
• (65)  Tomoya Uchimura, Seiji Hara, Takashi Yazawa, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takeshi Kitano. (2019)
  Involvement of heat shock proteins on the transcriptional regulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone in Medaka.
  Frontiers in Endocrinology, 10, 529.
• (64)  Tomoyuki Shikata, Fumio Takahashi, Hiroyo Nishide, Shuji Shigenobu, Yasuhiro Kamei, Setsuko Sakamoto, Kouki Yuasa, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Yamasaki and Ikuo Uchiyama. (2019)
  RNA-seq analysis reveals genes related to photoreception, nutrient uptake, and toxicity in a noxious red-tide raphidophyte Chattonella antiqua.
  Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 1764. 
• (63)  Fumiya Furukawa, Shin Hamasaki, Seiji Hara, Tomoya Uchimura, Eri Shiraishi, Natsumi Osafune, Hisanori Takagi, Takashi Yazawa, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takeshi Kitano. (2019)
  Heat shock factor 1 protects germ cell proliferation during early ovarian differentiation in medaka.
  Sci Rep, 9, 6927. 
• (62)  Tomoya Nakayama, Tsuyoshi Shimmura, Ai Shinomiya, Kousuke Okimura, Yusuke Takehana, Yuko Furukawa, Takayuki Shimo, Takumi Senga, Mana Nakatsukasa, Toshiya Nishimura, Minoru Tanaka, Kataaki Okubo, Yasuhiro Kamei, Kiyoshi Naruse & Takashi Yoshimura. (2019)
  Seasonal regulation of the lncRNA LDAIR modulates self-protective behaviours during the breeding season.
  Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3, 845-851.  Press Release（NIBB）
• (61)  Erina Abe, Masaki Yasugi, Hideaki Takeuchi, Eiji Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kamei & Hirotsugu Yamamoto. (2019)
  Development of omnidirectional aerial display with aerial imaging by retro-reflection (AIRR) for behavioral biology experiments.
  Optical Review,  26, 221-229.
• (60)  Yumi Harada, Megumi Matsuo, Yasuhiro Kamei, Mayuko Goto, Shoji Fukamachi. (2019)
  Evolutionary history of the medaka long-wavelength sensitive genes and effects of artificial regression by gene loss on behavioural photosensitivity.
  Sci Rep, 25, 2726-2736.
• (59)  Shonan Amemiya, Taku Hibino, Takuya Minokawa, Kiyoshi Naruse, Yasuhiro Kamei, Isao Uemura, Masato Kiyomoto, Shin-ichi Hisanaga, Ritsu Kuraishi. (2019)
  Development of the coelomic cavities in larvae of the living isocrinid sea lily Metacrinus rotundus.
  Acta Zool., 96, 36-43.

• (58)  Makiko Kosugi, Fumino Maruo, Takeshi Inoue, Norio Kurosawa, Akinori Kawamata, Hiroyuki Koike, Yasuhiro Kamei, Sakae Kudoh, Satoshi Imura. (2018)
  A comparative study of wavelength-dependent photoinactivation in photosystem II of drought-tolerant photosynthetic organisms in Antarctica and the potential risks of photoinhibition in the habitat.
  Ann. Bot., 122, 1263-1278.
• (57)  Takahiro Hamada, Mako Yako, Marina Minegishi, Mayuko Sato, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yuki Yanagawa, Kiminori Toyooka, Yuichiro Watanabe, Ikuko Hara-Nishimura. (2018)
  Stress granule formation is induced by a threshold temperature rather than a temperature difference in Arabidopsis.
  J. Cell Sci., 131, jcs216051.
• (56)  Megumi Matsuo, Yoriko Ando, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shoji Fukamachi. (2018)
  A semi-automatic and quantitative method to evaluate behavioral photosensitivity in animals based on the optomotor response.(OMR)
  Biol Open, 7, bio033175. 
• (55)  Jun Tominaga, Yasutoshi Nakahara, Daisuke Horikawa, Ayumi Tanaka, Maki Kondo, Yasuhiro Kamei, Tsuneaki Takami, Wataru Sakamoto, Kazutoshi Unno, Atsushi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Shimada. (2018)
  Overexpression of the protein disulfide isomerase AtCYO1 in chloroplasts slows darkinduced senescence in Arabidopsis.
  BMC Plant Biol, 18, 80. 
• (54)  Yusuke Nagao, Hiroyuki Takada, Motohiro Miyadai, Tomoko Adachi, Ryoko Seki, Yasuhiro Kamei, Ikuyo Hara, Yoshihito Taniguchi, Kiyoshi Naruse, Masahiko Hibi, Robert N, Hisashi Hashimoto. (2018)
  Distinct interactions of Sox5 and Sox10 in fate specification of pigment cells in medaka and zebrafish.
  PLoS Genetics, 4, e1007260.
• (53)  Riho Hasugata, Shinichi Hayashi, Aiko Kawasumi-Kita, Joe Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Kamei and Hitoshi Yokoyama. (2018)
  Infrared laser-mediated single-cell-level gene induction in the regenerating tail of Xenopus laevis tadpoles.
  Cold Spring Harb Protoc.,  May 16 10.1101/pdb.prot101014  
• 
• This paper was selected as a cover art.
• (52)  Yasuhiro Tonoyama, Minori Shinya, Atsushi Toyoda, Takeshi Kitano, Atsunori Oga, Toshiyuki Nishimaki, Takafumi Katsumura, Hiroki Oota, Miles T Wan, Bill W P Yip, Mok O L Helen, Shinichi Chisada, Tomonori Deguchi, Doris W T Au, Kiyoshi Naruse, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yoshihito Taniguchi. (2018)
  Abnormal nuclear morphology is independent of longevity in a zmpste24-deficient fish model of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS).
  Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol, 209, 54-62. 
• (51)  Yuko Watanabe, Eri Furukawa, Hideki Tatsukawa, Hisashi Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yoshihito Taniguchi, Kiyotaka Hitomi. (2018)
  Higher susceptibility to osmolality of the medaka (Oryzias latipes) mutants in orthologue genes of mammalian skin transglutaminases.
  Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 82, 1165-1168. 
• (50)  Masatoshi Nakamoto, Yasushi Shibata, Kaoru Ohno, Takeshi Usami, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yoshihito Taniguchi, Takeshi Todo, Takashi Sakamoto, Graham Young, Penny Swanson, Kiyoshi Naruse, Yoshitaka Nagahama. (2018)
  Ovarion aromatase loss-of-function mutant medaka undergo ovary degeneration and partial female-to-male sex reversal after puberty.
  Mol. Cell. Endocrinol., 460, 104-122. 

• (49)  Tokiro Ishikawa, Makoto Kashima, Atsushi J. Nagano, Tomoko Ishikawa-Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takeshi Todo, Kazutoshi Mori. (2017)
  Unfolded protein response transducer IRE1-mediated signaling independent of XBP1 mRNA splicing is not required for growth and development of medaka fish.
  eLife, 6, e26845. 
• (48)  Tsuyoshi Shimmura, Tomoya Nakayama, Ai Shinomiya, Shoji Fukamachi, Masaki Yasugi, Eiji Watanabe, Takayuki Shimo, Takumi Senga, Toshiya Nishimura, Minoru Tanaka, Yasuhiro Kamei, Kiyoshi Naruse, Takashi Yoshimura. (2017)
  Dynamic plasticity in phototransduction regulates seasonal changes in color perception.
  Nat. Commun., 8412. Press Release （NIBB）
• (47)  Masayuki Hattori, Yosuke Tamada, Takashi Murata, Shin Oya, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Yutaka Hayano, Yasuhiro Kamei. (2017)
  Artificial testing targets with controllable blur for adaptive optics microscopes.
  Genome Biology Optical Engineering, 56, 080502.
• (46)  Yasuko Isoe, Ryohei Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shigenori Nonaka, Teruhiro Okuyama, Atsushi Shimizu, Takeo Kubo, Hiroyuki Takeda, Hideaki Takeuchi.
• Clonal analysis of construction mechanism of the adult telencephalon mediated by post-hatch neurogenesiss in medaka fish.
  Mechanisms of Development, 145, S118. 
• (45)  Yoshihiro Morishita, Takayuki Suzuki, Hitoshi Yokoyama, Yasuhiro Kamei, Koji Tamura, Aiko Kawasumi.
• Quantitative and comparative analysis of tissue deformation dynamics for chick and Xenopus limb morphogenesis.
  Mechanisms of Development, 145, S40. 
• (44)  Tokiro Ishikawa, Takuya Toyama, Yuki Nakamura, Kentaro Tamada, Hitomi Shimizu, Satoshi Ninagawa, Tetsuya Okada, Yasuhiro Kamei, Tomoko Ishikawa-Fujiwara, Takeshi Todo, Eriko Aoyama, Masaharu Takigawa, Akihiro Harada, Kazutoshi Mori. (2017)
  UPR transducer BBF2H7 allows export of typeⅡ collagen in a cargo- and developmental stage-specific manner.
  J. Cell Biol., jcb. 201609100. 
• (43)  Masayuki Hattori, Yosuke Tamada, Shin Oya, Yutaka Hayano, Yasuhiro Kamei. (2017)
• Basic experiments of laser beam correcion by adaptive optics microscope for the accurate manipulation of biological tissues.
  Biomedical Imaging and Sensing Conference  
• (42)  Masahiro Nakano, Yoshiyuki Arai, Ippei Kotera, Kohki Okabe, Yasuhiro Kamei & Takeharu Nagai. (2017)
  Genetically encoded ratiometric fluorescent thermometer with wide range and rapid response.
  PLoS One, 12, e0172344. 
• (41)  Noriko Homma, Yumi Harada, Tamaki Uchikawa, Yasuhiro Kamei & Shoji Fukamachi. (2017)
  Protanopia (red color-blindness) in medaka: a simple system for producing color-blind fish and testing their spectral sensitivity.
  BMC Genetics, 18, 10. 

• (40)  Chih-Wei Zeng, Yasuhiro Kamei, Chih-Tien Wang, Huai-Jen Tsai. (2016).
  Subtypes of hypoxia-responsive cells differentiate into neurons in spinal cord of zebrafish embryos after hypoxic stress.
  Biol. Cell., 108, 357-377. 
• 
   
• This paper was selected as a cover art.
• (39)  Ryo Yokoyama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Maki Kondo, Satomi Takeda, Kentaro Ifuku, Yoichiro Fukao, Yasuhiro Kamei, Mikio Nishimura, Toshiharu Shikanai. (2016).
  Grena-localized proteins, RIQ1 and RIQ2, optimize the dynamics of light-harvesting complex Ⅱ and grana stacking in Arabidopsis.
  Plant Cell, 28, 2261-2275.  
• (38)  Umi Utagawa, Shoichi Higashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shoji Fukamachi. (2016).
  Characterization of assortative mating in medaka: Mate discrimination cues and factors that blas sexual preference.
  Hormones and Behavior, 84, 9-17. 
• (37)  Saori Yokoi, Satoshi Ansai, Masato Kinoshita, Kiyoshi Naruse, Yasuhiro Kamei, Larry J Young, Teruhiro Okuyama, Hideaki Takeuchi. (2016).
  Mate-guarding behavior enhances male reproductive success via familarization with mating partners in medaka fish.
  Front Zool., 13, 21. 
• (36)  Miyuki Suzuki, Chiyo Takagi, Shinichirou Miura, Yuto Sakane, Makoto Suzuki, Tetsushi Sakuma, Naoaki Sakamoto, Tetsuya Endo, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yuko Sato, Hiroshi Kimura, Takashi Yamamoto, Naoto Ueno, Ken-ichi T. Suzuki. (2016)
  In vivo tracking of histone H3 lysine 9 acetylation in Xenopus laevis during tail regeneration
  Gene Cells, 21, 358-369. 
• (35)  Ryuichi Nishihama, Sakiko Ishida, Hiroko Urawa, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takayuki Kohchi. (2016).
• Conditional Gene Expression/Deletion Systems for Marchantia polymorpha Using its Own Heat-shock Promoter and the Cre/loxP-mediated Site-specific Recombination.
  Plant Cell Physiol., 27, 271-280.  

• (34)  Aiko Kawasumi-Kita, Toshinori Hayashi, Takuya Kobayashi, Chikashi Nagayama, Shinichi Hayashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yoshihiro Morishita, Takashi Takeuchi, Koji Tamura, Hitoshi Yokoyama. (2015)
  Application of local gene induction by infrared laser-mediated microscope and temperature stimulator to amphibian regeneration study.
  Dev. Growth Differ., 57, 601-613. 
• (33)  Mikiko Nakashima, Manami Suzuki, Misako Saida, Yasuhiro Kamei, Md. Babul Hossain, Toshinobu Tokumoto. (2015)
  Cell-based assay of nongenomic actions of progestins revealed inhibitory G protein coupling to membrane progestin receptor α (mPRα)
  Steroids, 100, 21-26. 
• (32)  Saori Yokoi, Teruhiro Okuyama, Yasuhiro Kamei, Kiyoshi Naruse, Yoshihito Taniguchi, Satoshi Ansai, Masato Kinoshita, Larry J Young, Nobuaki Takemori, Takeo Kubo, Hideaki Takeuchi. (2015)
  An essential role of the arginine vasotocin system in mate-guarding behaviors in triadic relationships of medaka fish (Oryzias latipes)
  PLoS Genetics, 11, e1005009. 

• (31)  Shinichi Hayashi, Haruki Ochi, Hajime Ogino, Aiko Kawasumi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Koji Tamura, Hitoshi Yokoyama. (2014)
  Transcriptional regulators in the Hippo signaling pathway control organ growth in Xenopus tadpole tail regeneration.
  Dev. Biol., 396, 31-41. 
• (30)  Xing Fang, Naohiro Ide, Sho-Ichi Higashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Tatsushi Toyooka, Yuko Ibuki, Kazuaki Kawai, Hiroshi Kasai, Keinosuke Okamoto, Sakae Arimoto-Kobayashi, Tomoe Negishi. (2014)
  Somatic cell mutations caused by 365 nm LED-UVA due to DNA double-strand breaks through oxidative damage.
  Photochem Photobiol Sci., 13, 1338-1346.
• (29)  Norikazu Murozumi, Ryo Nakashima, Toshiaki Hirai, Yasuhiro Kamei, Tomoko Ishikawa-Fujiwara, Takeshi Todo, Takeshi Kitano. (2014)
  Loss of follicle-stimulating hormone receptor function causes masculinization and suppression of ovarian development in genetically female medaka.
  Endocrinology, 155, 3136-3145. 
• (28)  Yosuke Tamada, Takashi Murata, Masayuki Hattori, Shin Oya, Yutaka Hayano, Yasuhiro Kamei, Mitsuyasu Hasebe. (2014) 
  Optical Property Analyses of Plant Cells for Adaptive Optics Microscopy.
  Int. J. Optomechatronics, 8, 89-99. 
• (27)  Yusuke Nagao, Takao Suzuki, Atsushi Shimizu, Tetsuaki Kimura, Ryoko Seki, Tomoko Adachi, Chikako Inoue, Yoshihiro Omae, Yasuhiro Kamei, Ikuyo Hara, Yoshihito Taniguchi, Kiyoshi Naruse, Yuko Wakamatsu, Robert N. Kelsh, Masahiko Hibi, Hisashi Hashimoto. (2014)
  Sox5 functions as a fate switch in medaka pigment cell development.
  PLoS Genet., 10, e1004246.  
• (26)  Shinji Otozai, Tomoko Ishikawa-Fujiwara, Shoji Oda, Yasuhiro Kamei, Haruko Ryo, Ayuko Sato, Taisei Nomura, Hiroshi Mitani, Tohru Tsujimura, Hidenori Inohara, Takeshi Todo. (2014)
  p53-Dependent suppression of genome instability in germ cells.
  Mutat Res. Fundam. Mol. Mech. Mutagen, 760, 24-32.  
• (25)  Teruhiro Okuyama, Saori Yokoi, Hideki Abe, Yasuko Isoe, Yuji Suehiro, Haruka Imada, Minoru Tanaka, Takashi Kawasaki, Shunsuke Yuba, Yoshihito Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Kataaki Okubo, Atsuko Shimada, Kiyoshi Naruse, Hiroyuki Takeda, Yoshitaka Oka, Takeo Kubo, Hideaki Takeuchi. (2014)
  A neural mechanism underlying mating preferences for familiar individuals in medaka fish.
  Science, 343, 91-94. 

• (24)  Teruhiro Okuyama, Yasuko Isoe, Masahito Hoki, Yuji Suehiro, Genki Yamagishi, Kiyoshi Naruse, Masato Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Kamei, Atushi Shimizu, Takeo Kubo, Hideaki Takeuchi. (2013)
  Controlled Cre/loxP site-specific recombination in the reveloping brain in medaka fish, Oryzias latipes.
  PLoS ONE, 8, e66597. 
• (23)  Eiji Kimura, Tomonori Deguchi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Wataru Shoji, Shunsuke Yuba, Jiro Hitomi. (2013)
  Application of infrared laser to the zebrafish vascular system: gene induction, tracing, and ablation of single endothelal cells.
  Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., 33, 1264-1270. 
• (22)  Atsuko Shimada, Toru Kawanishi, Takuya Kaneko, Hiroki Yoshihara, Tohru Yano, Keiji Inohaya, Masato Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Kamei, Koji Tamura, Hiroyuki Takeda. (2013)
  Trunk exoskeleton in teleosts is mesodermal in origin.  
  Nature Communications., 4, 1639. 
• (21)  Tokiro Ishikawa, Tetsuya Okada, Tomoko Ishikawa-Fujiwara, Takeshi Todo, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shuji Shigenobu, Minoru Tanaka, Taro L. Saito, Jun Yoshimura, Shinichi Morishita, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Yoshihito Taniguchi, Shunichi Takeda, Kazutoshi Mori. (2013)
  ATF6α/β-3ediated adjustment of ER chaperone levels is essential for development of the notochord in medaka fish.
  Mol. Biol. Cell., 24, 1387-1395. 
• (20)  Hironobu Ikehata, Shoichi Higashi, Shingo Nakamura, Yasukazu Daigaku, Yoshiya Furusawa, Yasuhiro Kamei, Masakatsu Watanabe, Kazuo Yamamoto, Kotaro Hieda, Nobuo Munakata, Tetsuya Ono. (2013)
  Action spectrum analysis of UVR genotoxicity for skin: The border wavelengths between UVA and UVB can bring serious mutation loads to skin.
  J. Invest. Dermatol., 133, 1850-1856. 
• (19)  Tomoyuki Shikata, Shigeru Matsunaga, Mineo Iseki, Hiroyo Nishide, Sho-Ichi Higashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Mineo Yamaguchi, Ian R. Jenkinson, Masakatsu Watanabe. (2013)
  Blue light regulates the rhythm of diurnal vertical migration in the raphidophyte red-tide alga Chattonella antiqua.
  J. Plankton Res., 35, 542-552. 
• (18) Kayo Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Masato Kinoshita, Thomas Czerny, Minoru Tanaka. (2013)
  A heat-inducible CRE/LOXP gene induction system in medaka.
  Genesis, 51, 59-67, 

• (17)  Yasuda T, Oda S, Li Z, Kimori Y, Kamei Y, Ishikawa T, Todo T and Mitani H. (2012)
  Gamma-ray irradiation promotes premature meiosis of spontaneously differentiating testis-ova in the testis of p53-deficient medaka (Oryzias latipes).
  Cell Death Dis., 3, e395.
• (16)  Takeshi Kitano, Yuki Hayashi, Eri Shiraishi, Yasuhiro Kamei. (2012) 
  Estrogen rescues masculinization of genetically female medaka by exposure to cortisol or high temperature.
  Mol. Reprod. Dev., 79, 719-726.
• 
• This paper was selected as a cover art.
• (15)  Satoshi Ansai, Hiroshi Ochiai, Yuta Kanie, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yuki Gou, Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Kinoshita. (2012)
  Targeted disruption of exogenous EGFP gene in medaka using zinc-finger nucleases.
  Dev. Growth Differ., 54, 546-556.
• (14)  Haruo Masuyama, Masato Yamada, Yasuhiro Kamei, Tomoko Fujiwara-Ishikawa, Takeshi Todo, Yoshitaka Nagahama, Masaru Matsuda. (2012)
  Dmrt1 mutation causes a male-to-female sex reversal after the sex determination by Dmy in the medaka.
  Chromosome Res., 20, 163-176. 

• (13)  Tomoyuki Shikata, Mineo Iseki, Shigeru Matsunaga, Sho-ichi Higashi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Masakatsu Watanabe. (2011)
  Blue and red light-induced germination of resting spores in the red-tide diatom Leptocylindrus danicus.
  Photochem. Photobiol., 87, 590-597. 

• (12)  Tomoko Ishikawa#, Yasuhiro Kamei#, Shinji Otozai, Jinhyong Kim, Ayuko Sato, Yoshikazu Kuwahara, Minoru Tanaka, Tomonori Deguchi, Hidenori Inohara, Tohru Tsujimura, Takeshi Todo. (2010)
  High-resolution melting curve analysis for rapid detection of mutations in a Medaka TILLING library.
  BMC Mol. Biol, 11, 70. (#;equally contribution) 
• (11)  Yuki Hayashi, Hiroshi Kobira, Toshiya Yamaguchi, Eri Shiraishi, Takashi Yazawa, Toshiaki Hirai, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takeshi Kitano. (2010)
  High temperature causes masculinization of genetically female medaka by elevation of cortisol.
  Mol. Reprod. Dev., 77, 679-686.
• 
• This paper was selected as a cover art.
• (10)  Shoji Oda, Sachi Mikami, Yusuke Urushihara, Yasuhiko Murata, Yasuhiro Kamei, Tomonori Deguchi, Takeshi Kitano, Kazuhiro E. Fujimori, Shunsuke Yuba, Takeshi Todo, Hiroshi Mitani. (2010)
  Identification of a functional medaka heat shock promoter and characterization of its ability to induce exogenous gene expression in medaka in vitro and in vivo.
  Zool. Sci., 27, 410-415. 

• (9)  Tomonori Deguchi, Mariko Itoh, Hiroko Urawa, Tomohiro Matsumoto, Sohei Nakayama, Takashi Kawasaki, Takeshi Kitano, Shoji Oda, Hiroshi Mitani, Taku Takahashi, Takeshi Todo, Junichi Sato, Kiyotaka Okada, Kohei Hatta, Shunsuke Yuba, Yasuhiro Kamei. (2009)
  Infrared laser-mediated local gene induction in medaka, zebrafish and Arabidopsis thaliana.  
  Dev. Growth Differ., 51, 769-775. (corresponding author) 
• (8)  Yasuhiro Kamei*, Motoshi Suzuki, Kenjiro Watanabe, Kazuhiro Fujimori, Takashi Kawasaki, Tomonori Deguchi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Takeshi Todo, Shin Takagi, Takashi Funatsu, Shunsuke Yuba. (2009)
  Infrared laser-mediated gene induction in targeted single cell in vivo. 
  Nature Methods, 6, 79-81. (2009) (corresponding author) 

• (7)  Junya Tomida, Yuji Masuda, Hidekazu Hiroaki, Tomoko Ishikawa, Ihnyoung Song, Toshiki Tsurimoto, Satoshi Tateishi, Tadahiro Shiomi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Jinhyeong Kim, Kenji Kamiya, Cyrus Vaziri, Haruo Ohmori, Takeshi Todo. (2008)
  DNA damage-induced ubiquitylation of RFC2 subunit of replication factor C complex.
  J. Biol. Chem., 283, 9071-9079.
• (6)  Yasuhiro Kamei*, Junji Itou, Shoji Oda, Mami Masui, Jin-Hyeong Kim, Tomoko Ishikawa, Shunsuke Yuba, Masato Kinoshita, Hiroshi Mitani, Takeshi Todo. (2007)
  Development of a convenient in vitro fertilization method using interspecific hybrids between Oryzias latipes and Oryzias curvinotus.
  Dev. Growth Differ., 49, 721-730. (corresponding author) 
• (5)  Yoshihito Taniguchi, Shunichi Takeda, Makoto Furutani-Seiki, Yasuhiro Kamei, Takeshi Todo, Takao Sasado, Tomonori Deguchi, Hisato Kondoh, Josine Mudde, Mitsuyoshi Yamazoe, Masayuki Hidaka, Hiroshi Mitani, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Ronald H. A. Plasterk, Edwin Cuppen. (2006)
  Generation of medaka gene knockout models by target-selected mutagenesis.
  Genome Biology, 7, R116. 
• (4)  Yukihiro Kondo, Junpei Kondoh, Daisuke Hayashi, Tadanobu Ban, Masatoshi Takagi, Yasuhiro Kamei, Lyuji Tsuji, Jiyoong Kim, Yoshihiro Yoneda. (2002)
  Molecular cloning of one isotype of human lamina-associated polypeptide 1s and a topological analysis using its deletion mutants.
  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 294 (4), 770-778. 
• (3)  Yuri Kobayashi, Tomoko Ishikawa, Jun Hirayama, Hiromi Daiyasu, Satoru Kanai, Hiroyuki Toh, Itsuki Fukuda, Tohru Tsujimura, Nobuyuki Terada, Yasuhiro Kamei, Shunsuke Yuba, Shigenori Iwai, Takeshi Todo. (2000)
  Molecular analysis of zebrafish photolyase/cryptochrome family: two types of cryptochromes present in zebrafish.
  Genes Cells, 5 (9), 725-738. 
• (2)  Yasuhiro Kamei, Shunsuke Yuba, Tatsuo Nakayama, Yoshihiro Yoneda. (1999)
  Three distinct classes of the α-subunit of the nuclear pore-targeting complex (importin-α) are differentially expressed in adult mouse tissues.
  J. Histochem. Cytochem., 47 (3), 363-372. 
• (1)  Naoko Imamoto, Yasuhiro Kamei, Yoshihiro Yoneda. (1998)
  Nuclear transport factors: function, behavior and interaction.
  Eur. J. Histochem, 42 (1), 9-20.