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Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 33
Citations - 2125
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cavefish & Lens (anatomy). The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 33 publications receiving 1899 citations. Previous affiliations of Yoshiyuki Yamamoto include University of Maryland, College Park & Kumamoto University.
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Central role for the lens in cave fish eye degeneration.
TL;DR: Results show that evolutionary changes in an inductive signal from the lens are involved in cave fish eye degeneration.
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Hedgehog signalling controls eye degeneration in blind cavefish
TL;DR: It is shown that sonic hedgehog and tiggy-winkle hedgehog gene expression is expanded along the anterior embryonic midline in several different cavefish populations, supporting the role of hh signalling in the evolution of cavefish eye regression.
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Migratory neural crest-like cells form body pigmentation in a urochordate embryo
TL;DR: A hypothesis for neural crest evolution beginning with the release of migratory cells from the CNS to produce body pigmentation in the common ancestor of the urochordates and vertebrates is proposed.
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Pleiotropic functions of embryonic sonic hedgehog expression link jaw and taste bud amplification with eye loss during cavefish evolution
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of sonic hedgehog (shh) in increasing oral-pharyngeal constructive traits (jaws and taste buds) at the expense of eyes in the blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus was addressed.
Evolution of Developmental Control Mechanisms Pleiotropic functions of embryonic sonic hedgehog expression link jaw and taste bud amplification with eye loss during cavefish evolution
TL;DR: Genetic crosses between cavefish and surface fish revealed an inverse relationship between eye size and jaw size/taste bud number, supporting a link between oral-pharyngeal constructive traits and eye degeneration.