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Yugo Kato, Woosuk Ha, Zehua Zheng, Lumi Negishi, Jun Kawano, Yoshihisa Kurita, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Michio Suzuki, Tropomyosin induces the synthesis of magnesian calcite in sea urchin spines., Journal of structural biology, 10.1016/j.jsb.2024.108074, 216, 2, 108074-108074, 2024.03, Calcium carbonate is present in many biominerals, including in the exoskeletons of crustaceans and shells of mollusks. High Mg-containing calcium carbonate was synthesized by high temperatures, high pressures or high molecular organic matter. For example, biogenic high Mg-containing calcite is synthesized under strictly controlled Mg concentration at ambient temperature and pressure. The spines of sea urchins consist of calcite, which contain a high percentage of magnesium. In this study, we investigated the factors that increase the magnesium content in calcite from the spines of the sea urchin, Heliocidaris crassispina. X-ray diffraction and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analyses showed that sea urchin spines contain about 4.8% Mg. The organic matrix extracted from the H. crassispina spines induced the crystallization of amorphous phase and synthesis of magnesium-containing calcite, while amorphous was synthesized without SUE (sea urchin extract). In addition, aragonite was synthesized by SUE treated with protease-K. HC tropomyosin was specifically incorporated into Mg precipitates. Recombinant HC-tropomyosin induced calcite contained 0.1-2.5% Mg synthesis. Western blotting of sea urchin spine extracts confirmed that HC tropomyosin was present in the purple sea urchin spines at a protein weight ratio of 1.5%. These results show that HC tropomyosin is one factor that increases the magnesium concentration in the calcite of H. crassispina spines.. |
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Yoshihisa Akamatsu, Ryohei Nakao, Hiromu Motozawa, Koji Furukawa, Yoshihisa Kurita, Application of a quantitative PCR method for monitoring of geosmin-producing Anabaena spp. in a Japanese reservoir, LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, 10.1007/s11355-022-00533-7, 2022.12. |
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Development of environmental DNA analysis for an endangered bitterling fish, Rhodeus smithii atremius. |
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Akihiko Koyama, Yuki Kawahara, Yoshihisa Kurita, Taiga Hirata, Osamu Hayashi, Shungo Takahashi, Haruka Kubozono, Norio Onikura, Tomoko Minagawa, Assessment of spawning events of the tri-spine horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, using environmental DNA in the Sone tidal flat, Japan, Plankton and Benthos Research, https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.17.127, 17, 2, 127-137, 2022.05. |
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Gordon H. Copp, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Hui Wei, Shan Li, Marina Piria, Abbas J. Al-Faisal, David Almeida, Usman Atique, Zainab Al-Wazzan, Rigers Bakiu, Tea Bašić, Thuyet D. Bui, João Canning-Clode, Nuno Castro, Ratcha Chaichana, Tülin Çoker, Dimitriy Dashinov, F. Güler Ekmekçi, Tibor Erős, Árpád Ferincz, Teresa Ferreira, Daniela Giannetto, Allan S. Gilles, Łukasz Głowacki, Philippe Goulletquer, Elena Interesova, Sonia Iqbal, Katarína Jakubčinová, Kamalaporn Kanongdate, Jeong Eun Kim, Oldřich Kopecký, Vasil Kostov, Nicholas Koutsikos, Sebastian Kozic, Petra Kristan, Yoshihisa Kurita, Hwang Goo Lee, Rob S.E.W. Leuven, Tatsiana Lipinskaya, Juliane Lukas, Agnese Marchini, Ana Isabel González Martínez, Laurence Masson, Daniyar Memedemin, Seyed Daryoush Moghaddas, João Monteiro, Levan Mumladze, Rahmat Naddafi, Ion Năvodaru, Karin H. Olsson, Norio Onikura, Daniele Paganelli, Richard Thomas Pavia, Costas Perdikaris, Renanel Pickholtz, Dariusz Pietraszewski, Meta Povž, Cristina Preda, Milica Ristovska, Karin Rosíková, José Maria Santos, Vitaliy Semenchenko, Wansuk Senanan, Predrag Simonović, Evangelia Smeti, Barbora Števove, Kristína Švolíková, Kieu Anh T. Ta, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Nildeniz Top, Elena Tricarico, Eliza Uzunova, Leonidas Vardakas, Hugo Verreycken, Grzegorz Zięba, Roberto Mendoza, Speaking their language – Development of a multilingual decision-support tool for communicating invasive species risks to decision makers and stakeholders, Environmental Modelling and Software, 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104900, 135, 2021.01. |
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Maria January Peter, Mercedes MacEren-Pates, Gaudioso Pates, Michiyasu Yoshikuni, Yoshihisa Kurita, Germ Cell Development in Male Perinereis nuntia and Gamete Spawning Mechanisms in Males and Females, Zoological Science, 10.2108/zs200080, 37, 6, 519-528, 2020.12. |
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Yoshihisa Akamatsu, Gen Kume, Masuji Gotou, Takanori Kono, Takuma Fujii, Ryutei Inui, Yoshihisa Kurita, Using environmental DNA analyses to assess the occurrence and abundance of the endangered amphidromous fish Plecoglossus altivelis ryukyuensis., Biodiversity Data Journal., 8, e39679, 2020.01. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita., New Technology to Facilitate the Aquaculture of Marine Invertebrates Using Embryology, Genetics and Hydrodynamics. , Journal of Integrated Field Science, 16, 16-18, 2019.11. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Akihiro Kijima, A noninvasive method for extracting bivalve DNA from the water-filled mantle cavity, Hydrobiologia, 10.1007/s10750-018-3835-1, 2019.02. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Akihiro Kijima, A noninvasive method for extracting bivalve DNA from the water-filled mantle cavity, Hydrobiologia, 10.1007/s10750-018-3835-1, 829, 1, 237-243, 2019.02. |
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Kei’ichiro Iguchi, Yuta Matsumoto, Yoshihisa Kurita, Katsutoshi Watanabe, Adaptive downsizing in the piscivorous cyprinid fish, Opsariichthys uncirostris, facilitates rapid establishment after introduction to a small-scale habitat in Japan, Biological Invasions, 10.1007/s10530-019-01957-3, 2019.01. |
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Yuichi Kano, Yoshihisa Kurita , Kazuki Kanno, Kengo Saito, Hironori Hayashi, Norio Onikura, Takeshi Yamasaki, Photo images, 3D/CT data and mtDNA of the freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the Kyushu and Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with SEM/EDS analysis of the shell., Biodiversity Data Journal, 10.3897/BDJ.7.e32114, 7, e32114, 2019.01. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Ikuo Chiba, Akihiro Kijima, Relationship between the efficiency of planktonic crustacean eradication from aquaculture tanks and cavitation conditions, Aquaculture Research, 10.1111/are.13866, 49, 12, 3930-3932, 2018.12. |
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Kazuki Kanno, Norio Onikura, Yoshihisa Kurita, Akihiko Koyama, Jun Nakajima, Morphological, distributional, and genetic characteristics of Cottus pollux in the Kyushu Island, Japan
indication of fluvial and amphidromous life histories within a single lineage, Ichthyological Research, 10.1007/s10228-018-0637-4, 65, 4, 462-470, 2018.11. |
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Kanno Kazuki, Koyama Akihiko, Kurita Yoshihisa, First record of the brachiopod Lingula reevei (Brachiopoda, Lingulidae) from the Sea of Japan, Biogeography, 20, 128-130, 2018.09. |
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高津川水系におけるイワナおよびサクラマスの分布と河川水温の関係性. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Biological report of a giant deep-sea squid Onykia robusta collected from the Sanriku coast, Japan: Implications for low genetic diversity, Marine Biodiversity, 48, 1, 685-688, 2018.04. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Ikuo Chiba and Akihiro Kijima, Physical eradication of small planktonic crustaceans from aquaculture tanks with cavitation treatment, Aquaculture International, 25, 6, 2127-2133, 2017.12. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroshi Wada, Evolution of the molluscan body plan: the case of the anterior adductor muscle of bivalves, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 10.1111/bij.12812, 119, 2, 420-429, 2016.10. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita and Norio Onikura, Phenotypic shift of an alien piscivorous chub following translocation from a large lake to small irrigation ditches, Ecological Research, 31, 731-738, 2016.09. |
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Takuya Okawa, Yoshihisa Kurita, Kazuki Kanno, Akihiko Koyama and Norio Onikura., Molecular analysis of the distributions of the invasive Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea (O.F. Müller, 1774), and threatened native clam, C. leana Prime, 1867, on Kyushu Island, Japan. , Bioinvasions Records, 5, 1, 25-29, 2016.01. |
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Mercedes Maceren-Pates, Yoshihisa Kurita, Gaudioso PatesJr. and Michiyasu Yoshikuni, A model for germ cell development in a fully segmented worm., Zoological Letters, 14, 34, 2015.12. |
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Naoki Hashimoto, Yoshihisa Kurita, Kana Murakami and Hiroshi Wada., Cleavage pattern and development of isolated D blastomeres in bivalves., Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 324, 1, 13-21, 2015.01. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Norio Onikura, Ryutei Inui, Factors affecting the establishment success of the invasive piscivorous chub in small irrigation ditches in northern Kyushu, Japan, Ichthyological Research, 10.1007/s10228-014-0407-x, 61, 4, 393-398, 2014.11. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita1 and Ryutei Inui1, Identification of sea bass species (Pisces, Percichthyidae) by PCR-RFLP analysis and differences in habitat use of the larvae and juveniles in the surf zones of sandy beaches in northwestern Kyushu Island., Biogeography, 14, 57-63, 2012.09. |
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Naoki Hashimoto1, Yoshihisa Kurita1 and Hiroshi Wada, Developmental role of dpp in the gastropod shell plate and co-option of the dpp signaling pathway in the evolution of the operculum., Developmental Biology, 366, 2, 367-373, 2012.06. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Hiroshi Wada, Evidence that gastropod torsion is driven by asymmetric cell proliferation activated by TGF-beta signalling, Biology Letters, 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0263, 7, 5, 759-762, 2011.10. |
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Mika Tokumoto, Yoshihisa Kurita, Toshinobu Tokumoto, Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding APC11, a catalytic component of anaphase-promoting-complex (APC/C), from goldfish (Carassius auratus), and establishment of in vitro ubiquitinating system., Zoological Science, 23, 8, 675-678, 2006.08. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Jun Nakajima, Jun Kaneto and Norio Onikura, Analysis of the gut contents of the internal exotic fish species Opsariichthys uncirostris uncirostris in the Futatsugawa River, Kyuhsu Island, Japan. , Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University, 53, 2, 429-433, 2008.10. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Ryusaku Deguchi and Hiroshi Wada, Early development and cleavage pattern of the Japanese purple mussel, Septifer virgatus., Zoological Science, 26, 12, 814-820, 2009.12. |
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Yoshihisa Kurita, Hiroshi Wada, Evidence that gastropod torsion is driven by asymmetric cell proliferation activated by TGF-β signalling., Biology letters, 7, 5, 759-762, 2011.04. |
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Mika Tokumoto, Yoshihisa Kurita, Toshinobu Tokumoto, Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding APC11, a catalytic component of anaphase-promoting-complex (APC/C), from goldfish (Carassius auratus), and establishment of in vitro ubiquitinating system, Zoological Science, 10.2108/zsj.23.675, 23, 8, 675-678, 2006.08. |
