Preprints (not peer-reviewed)
(*corresponding author)
2024
hoxb genes determine the timing of cell ingression by regulating cell surface fluctuations during zebrafish gastrulation
Yuuta Moriyama*, Toshiyuki Mitsui and Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
bioRxiv, 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.06.579056
Peer-reviewed articles
(*corresponding author, #equal contribution)
2023
Heterochronic development of pelvic fins in zebrafish: possible involvement of temporal regulation of pitx1 expression
Hilda Mardiana Pratiwi, Masahiro Hirasawa, Kohki Kato, Keijiro Munakata, Shogo Ueda, Yuuta Moriyama, Reiko Yu, Toru Kawanishi and Mikiko Tanaka*
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023. 11.1170691. doi: 103389/fcell.2023.1170691
2020
Dynamic properties of heart fragments from different regions and their synchronization
Shin Arai, Kento Lloyd, Tomonori Takahashi, Kazuki Mammoto, Takashi Miyazawa, Kei Tamura, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Kentaro Ishida, Yuuta Moriyama and Toshiyuki Mitsui*
Bioengineering. 2020, 7(3), 81. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering7030081
2019
Localization of ß-catenin and Islet in the pelvic fin field in zebrafish
Yuuta Moriyama, Hilda Mardiana Pratiwi, Shogo Ueda and Mikiko Tanaka*
Zoological Science. 2019. 36(5):365-371. doi: 10.2108/zs180185
Evolution of the avian digital pattern
Kenta Kawahara, Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro, Shogo Ueda, Guojun Sheng, Yuuta Moriyama, Chika Nishimori, Reiko Yu, Makoto Koizumi, Masataka Okabe and Mikiko Tanaka*
Scientific Reports. 2019 Jun 12;9(1):8560. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-44913-w
Cux2 Refines the Forelimb Field by Controlling Expression of Raldh2 and Hox genes
Shogo Ueda, Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro, Yuuta Moriyama, Chika Nishimori, Kei-ichi Kai, Reiko Yu, Ryuichiro Nakato, Katsuhiko Shirahige and Mikiko Tanaka*
Biology Open. 2019: bio.040584 doi: 10.1242/bio.040584
Involvement of HGF/MET signaling in appendicular muscle development in cartilaginous fish
Eri Okamoto#, Yuuta Moriyama#, Shigehiro Kuraku, Kei-ichi Kai and Mikiko Tanaka* #These authors contributed equally to this work
Development, Growth and Differentiation. 2019 Jan;61(1):97-103. doi: 10.1111/dgd.12591
Cardiac septation in heart development and evolution
Katano Wataru#, Yuuta Moriyama#, Jun K Takeuchi and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi* #These authors contributed equally to this work
Development, Growth and Differentiation. 2019 Jan;61(1): 114-123. doi: 10.1111/dgd. 12580
2018
Significance of whole-genome duplication on the emergence of evolutionary novelties
Yuuta Moriyama* and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Briefings Functional Genomics. 2018 Sep 27;17(5) 329-338. doi:10.1093/bfgp/ely007
2016
Evolution of the fish heart by sub/neofunctionalization of an elastin gene
Yuuta Moriyama*, Fumihiro Ito, Hiroyuki Takeda, Tohru Yano, Masataka Okabe, Shigehiro Kuraku, Fred W. Keeley and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi*
Nature Communications. 2016 Jan 19;7:10397. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10397
2013
Formation of the digestive tract in Ciona intestinalis includes two distinct morphogenic processes between its anterior and posterior parts.
Keiichi Nakazawa, Takumi Yamazawa, Yuuta Moriyama, Yosuke Ogura, Narudo Kawai, Yasunori Sasakura and Hidetoshi Saiga*
Developmental Dynamics. 2013 Oct;242(10) 1172-83. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24009
Modular development of the teleost trunk along the dorsoventral axis and zic1/zic4 as selector genes in the dorsal module
Toru Kawanishi, Takuya Kaneko, Yuuta Moriyama, Masato Kinoshita, Hayato Yokoi, Tohru Suzuki, Atsuko Shimada and Hiroyuki Takeda*
Development. 2013 Apr;140(7) 1486-96. doi: 10.1242/dev.088567
2012
The medaka zic1/zic4 mutant provides molecular insights into teleost caudal fin evolution
Yuuta Moriyama, Toru Kawanishi, Ryohei Nakamura, Tatsuya Tsukahara, Kenta Sumiyama, Maximiliano L. Suster, Koichi Kawakami, Atsuhi Toyoda, Asao Fujiyama, Yuuri Yasuoka, Yusuke Nagao, Etsuko Sawatari, Atsushi Shimizu, Yuko Wakamatsu, Masahiko Hibi, Masanori Taira, Masataka Okabe, Kiyoshi Naruse, Hisashi Hashimoto, Atsuko Shimada and Hiroyuki Takeda*
Current Biology. 2012 Apr 10;22(7)
601-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.063
Articles for Japanese journals or books
2016
Evolution of heart outflow tract in teleost by sub/neo-functionalization of an elastin gene
Yuuta Moriyama and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Jikken Igaku, 34(11), 1771-4
2015
Evolution and development of heart morphology and coronary artery in vertebrates
Yuuta Moriyama and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Nihon Rinshou, 74(4), 35-42
Squid and octopus has three hearts
Yuuta Moriyama
365 Interesting stories of sciences for children
Evolution, development and regeneration of vertebrates heart
Kohei Ito, Yuuta Moriyama, Jun K Takeuchi and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Seitai no Kagaku, 66(3), 212-6
2014
Evolution of the heart in Coelacanth
Yuuta Moriyama, Jun K Takeuchi and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Iden: Seibutsu no Kagaku, 68(3), 233-7
Evolution and Development of the heart
Yuuta Moriyama and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Saibou Kougaku, 33(11), 1157-64
2013
Evolution of vertebrate heart: how morphology and function of heart has diversed?
Yuuta Moriyama, Jun K Takeuchi and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Iden: Seibutsu no Kagaku, 67(2), 197-208
Research Grants & Projects
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
Subject: Fluctuation of cell behaviour and an emergence of asymmetry in self-organizing system
Period: April 2020 - March 2021
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Subject: Study for the pre-adaptation mechanism underlying the evolution of heart outflow tract
Period: April 2020 - March 2022
Narishige Zoological Science Award
Subject: Evolution and development of the outflow tract in actinopterygian fishes
Period: October 2019 - September 2020
Promotion for the foundation studies (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Subject: Induction of smooth muscle cells by the biophysical properties of Elastin b
Period: April 2019 - March 2020
Early eagle support for excellent studies (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Subject: Cell fate determination in the heart development by extracellular matrix
Period: April 2019 - March 2020
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad
Subject: Evolutionary developmental study for gastrulation by focusing on biophysical properties of cells
Period: May 2016 - April 2018
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow (PD)
Subject: Evolutionary developmental study for gill heart in cephalopods
Period: April 2013 - March 2016
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow for Doctoral Course Students (DC2)
Subject: Morphological evolution of caudal skeleton
Period: April 2010 - March 2013
Invited talks
2022
Function of extracellular environment for evolution and development of heart outflow tract in teleost
Yuuta Moriyama
Annual meeting for cardiovascular system in National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Nagano, Japan. October 2022.
Alternation of extracellular environment for diversification of heart outflow tract in teleost
Yuuta Moriyama
The 93rd Annual Meeting of Zoological Society of Japan
Tokyo, Japan. September 2022.
Mechanisms of spatio-temporal regulation underlying gastrulation
Yuuta Moriyama
The 13th meeting for brain science
Kanagawa, Japan. July 2022.
2021
Evolvability of gastrulation
Yuuta Moriyama
The 23rd Annual Meeting of Society of Evolutionary Studies. Online. August 2021.
2019
How our bodies are built? Introduction of developmental biology and its perspectives
Yuuta Moriyama
Colloquium in department of physics and mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University.
Kanagawa, Japan. June 2019.
2018
Cell blebbing bridges time and space in zebrafish gastrulation
Yuuta Moriyama
3rd Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Evolutionary theory for constrained and directional diversities"
Okazaki, Japan. December 2018.
2016
How to generate evolutionary novelties: a lesson from fish heart evolution
Yuuta Moriyama, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Joint meeting of the 22nd International Congress of Zoology and the 87th Meeting of Zoological Society of Japan.
Okinawa, Japan, November 2016.
2015
How evolutionary novelties are acquired? Lesson from the fish heart evolution
Yuuta Moriyama
Evo-Evo-Devo Colloquium 2015
Tokyo, Japan. December 2015
2014
elastin gene neofunctionalization and formation of teleost-specific heart component "bulbus arteriosus" in fish evolution and development
Yuuta Moriyama, Jun K Takeuchi and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
The 16th Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies
Osaka, Japan. August 2014
How to convert cardiomyocyte into smooth muscle; Lessons from fish evolution
Yuuta Moriyama, Jun K Takeuchi and Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
The 46th Meeting of Japanese Society for Developmental Biology
Okazaki, Japan. May 2014
2009
Analysis of the somite-specific enhancer of the zic genes in medaka: toward understanding of the evolution of the external morphology in vertebrates
Yuuta Moriyama, Toru Kawanishi, Atsuko Shimada, Kiyoshi Naruse and Hiroyuki Takeda
The 32nd Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
Kanagawa, Japan. December 2009