| Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | Relation | scopus | WOS | Fulltext/Archive link |
| 2017 | Constrained vertebrate evolution by pleiotropic genes. | Hu, H; Uesaka, M; Guo, S; Shimai, K; Lu, TM ; Li, F; Fujimoto, S; Ishikawa, M; Liu, S; Sasagawa, Y; Zhang, G; Kuratani, S; Yu, JK; Kusakabe, TG; Khaitovich, P; Irie, N | Nature ecology & evolution 1, 1722-1730 | | | |
| 2013 | Craniofacial development of hagfishes and the evolution of vertebrates. | Oisi, Y; Ota, KG; Kuraku, S; Fujimoto, S; Kuratani, S | Nature 493(7431), 175-80 | | | |
| 2007 | Cyclostome embryology and early evolutionary history of vertebrates. | Ota, KG; Kuratani, S | Integrative and comparative biology 47(3), 329-337 | | | |
| 2008 | Developmental biology of hagfishes, with a report on newly obtained embryos of the Japanese inshore hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri. | Ota, KG; Kuratani, S | Zoological science 25(10), 999-1011 | | | |
| 2010 | Expression pattern of two collagen type 2 alpha1 genes in the Japanese inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri) with special reference to the evolution of cartilaginous tissue. | Ota, KG; Kuratani, S | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution 314, 157-165 | | | |
| 2008 | Hagfish (cyclostomata, vertebrata): searching for the ancestral developmental plan of vertebrates. | Kuratani, S; Ota, KG | BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology 30(2), 167-172 | | | |
| 2018 | Hagfish and lamprey Hox genes reveal conservation of temporal colinearity in vertebrates. | Pascual-Anaya, J; Sato, I; Sugahara, F; Higuchi, S; Paps, J; Ren, Y; Takagi, W; Ruiz-Villalba, A; Ota, KG; Wang, W; Kuratani, S | NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 2, 859-866 | | | |
| 2007 | Hagfish embryology with reference to the evolution of the neural crest. | Ota, KG; Kuraku, S; Kuratani, S | Nature 446, 672-675 | | | |
| 2007 | [Hagfish embryos and origin of vertebrates] | Kuratani, S; Ota, KG | Tanpakushitsu kakusan koso. Protein, nucleic acid, enzyme 52(14), 1878-1883 | | | |
| 2011 | Identification of vertebra-like elements and their possible differentiation from sclerotomes in the hagfish. | Ota, KG; Fujimoto, S; Oisi, Y; Kuratani, S | Nature Communications 2, 373 | | | |
| 2011 | Overview of the transcriptome profiles identified in hagfish, shark, and bichir: current issues arising from some nonmodel vertebrate taxa. | Takechi, M; Takeuchi, M; Ota, KG; Nishimura, O; Mochii, M; Itomi, K; Adachi, N; Takahashi, M; Fujimoto, S; Tarui, H; Okabe, M; Aizawa, S; Kuratani, S | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution 316(7), 526-546 | | | |
| 2008 | Primitive versus derived traits in the developmental program of the vertebrate head: views from cyclostome developmental studies. | Kuratani, S; Ota, KG | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution 310(4), 294-314 | | | |
| 2006 | The history of scientific endeavors towards understanding hagfish embryology. | Ota, KG; Kuratani, S | Zoological science 23(5), 403-418 | | | |
