Nakamura lab

Hintermann A., Bolt CC., Hawkins MB, Valentin G., Delisle LL., Gitto S., Gomez PB., Mascrez B., Mansour TA., Nakamura T., Harris MP., Shubin NH., and Duboule D.

Evolutionary Co-Option of an Ancestral Cloacal Regulatory Landscape During the Emergence of Digits and Genitals

bioRxiv

Wei J, Wood TWP , Flaherty K, Enny A, Andrescavage A, Brazer D, Navon D, Stewart TA, Cohen H, Shanabag A, Kuroda S, Braasch I, and Nakamura T.

Distinct ossification trade-offs illuminate the shoulder girdle reconfiguration at the water-to-land transition.

bioRxiv

Kuroda S, Lalonde RL, Mosimann C, and Nakamura T.

Multiple embryonic sources converge to form the pectoral girdle skeleton in zebrafish

Nature Communications

Marlétaz F*, Calle-Mustienes E, Acemel RD, Paliou C,……. Nakamura T*, Tena JJ*, Lupiáñez DG* , Rokhsar DS* and Gómez-Skarmeta J. (*corresponding authors)

The little skate genome and the evolutionary emergence of wing-like fin appendages

Nature

Rees JM, Sleight VA, Clark SJ, Nakamura T, and Gillis AJ

Wnt signalling, cell fate determination and anteroposterior polarity of the skate gill arch skeleton

eLife

Hawkins MB, Jandzik D, Tulenko FJ, Cass AN, Nakamura T, Shubin NH, Davis MC, and Stock DW.

An Fgf–Shh positive feedback loop drives growth in developing unpaired fins.

PNAS

Mori S* and Nakamura T*

Redeployment of odontode gene regulatory network underlies dermal denticle formation and evolution in suckermouth armored catfish

Scientific Reports

Laureano AS, Flaherty K, Hinman AM, Jadali A, Nakamura T, Higashijima SI, Sabaawy HE, Kwan KY.

Shox2 is required for vestibular statoacoustic neuron development.

Biol Open.

Enny A, Thompson A, Racicot B, Braasch I, and Nakamura T. Cellular mechanisms of frontal bone development in spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus). Dev Dyn.

Nakamura T*, Schneider I* and Shubin NH*

Evolution: The deep genetic roots of tetrapod specific traits.

Current Biology

Enny A, Flaherty K, Mori S, Turner N and Nakamura T.
Developmental Constraints on Fin Diversity.
Dev Growth Differ

Turner N†, Mikalauskaite D†, Barone K, Flaherty K, Senevirathne G, Adachi N, Shubin NH and Nakamura T. (†;equal contributions)
The evolutionary origins and diversity of the neuromuscular system of paired appendages in batoids.
Proc Biol Sci

Wood TWP and Nakamura T
Problems in Fish-to-Tetrapod Transition: Genetic Expeditions into Old Specimens.
Front. Cell Dev. Biol

Letelier J, Calle-Mustienes E, Pieretti J, Naranjo S, Maeso I, Nakamura T, Pascual-Anaya J, Shubin NH, Schneider I, Martinez-Morales JR & Gómez-Skarmeta JL.
A conserved Shh cis-regulatory module highlights a common developmental origin of unpaired and paired fins.
Nature Genetics

Nakamura T†, Gerhke AR†, Lemberg J, Szymaszek J, Shubin NH
Digits and fin rays share common developmental histories.
Nature

Braasch I, Gehrke AR, Smith JJ, Kawasaki K, Manousaki T, Pasquier J, Amores A, Desvignes T, Batzel P, Catchen J, Berlin AM, Campbell MS, Barrell D, Martin KJ, Mulley JF, Ravi V, Lee AP, Nakamura T…………,Postlethwait J.
The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitated human-teleost comparisons.
Nature Genetics  

Inaba Y, Shinohara K, Bottled Y, Nabeshima R, Takaoka K, Ajima R, Lamri L, Takeda H, Saga Y, Nakamura T, Hamada H.
Transport of the outer dynein arm complex to cilia requires a cytoplasmic protein Lrcc6.
Genes Cells

Nakamura T, Klomp J, Pieretti J., Schneider I.,Gerhke AR., Shubin NH.
Molecular mechanisms underlying the exceptional adaptations of batoid fins.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Pieretti J, Gehrke AR, Schneider I, Adachi N, Nakamura T, Shubin NH.
Organogenesis in deep time: A problem in genomics, development, and paleontology.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A