Jr‐Kai Yu

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Jr‐Kai Yu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jr‐Kai Yu has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jr‐Kai Yu's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (40 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (25 papers) and Echinoderm biology and ecology (8 papers). Jr‐Kai Yu is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (40 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (25 papers) and Echinoderm biology and ecology (8 papers). Jr‐Kai Yu collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, United States and Japan. Jr‐Kai Yu's co-authors include Linda Z. Holland, Nicholas D. Holland, Marianne Bronner‐Fraser, Sebastian M. Shimeld, Michael Schubert, Héctor Escrivá, Tsai-Ming Lu, Yi‐Jyun Luo, Jia‐Xing Yue and Sonja J. McKeown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jr‐Kai Yu

71 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution

2020 231 citations Oleg Simakov, Ferdinand Marlétaz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jr‐Kai Yu Taiwan	34	2.0k	587	446	332	270	74	2.9k
Nori Satoh Japan	23	1.5k 0.8×	863 1.5×	469 1.1×	236 0.7×	250 0.9×	28	2.4k
Florian Raible Austria	22	1.8k 0.9×	519 0.9×	309 0.7×	368 1.1×	258 1.0×	44	3.0k
Michel Vervoort France	29	3.1k 1.6×	591 1.0×	583 1.3×	243 0.7×	482 1.8×	58	4.1k
Sebastian M. Shimeld United Kingdom	37	2.9k 1.5×	872 1.5×	816 1.8×	388 1.2×	467 1.7×	99	4.0k
Hidetoshi Saiga Japan	31	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 2.3×	602 1.3×	191 0.6×	300 1.1×	82	3.2k
Guillaume Balavoine France	25	1.9k 0.9×	880 1.5×	408 0.9×	449 1.4×	617 2.3×	38	2.9k
Michalis Averof Greece	28	2.1k 1.1×	333 0.6×	855 1.9×	310 0.9×	276 1.0×	48	2.9k
Oleg Simakov Austria	26	1.7k 0.8×	656 1.1×	440 1.0×	868 2.6×	601 2.2×	62	3.3k
Eiichi Shoguchi Japan	28	1.3k 0.7×	772 1.3×	317 0.7×	1.0k 3.1×	313 1.2×	67	2.7k
Michio Ogasawara Japan	25	1.2k 0.6×	709 1.2×	315 0.7×	145 0.4×	135 0.5×	66	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jr‐Kai Yu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lin, Ching‐Yi, et al.. (2024). Tracing the Evolutionary Origin of Chordate Somites in the Hemichordate Ptychodera flava. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64(5). 1226–1242.

Lin, Che-Yi, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Pedro Manuel Martínez‐García, et al.. (2024). Chromosome-level genome assemblies of 2 hemichordates provide new insights into deuterostome origin and chromosome evolution. PLoS Biology. 22(6). e3002661–e3002661. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Pei, Ji Li, Xiaoyu Zhan, et al.. (2023). On the origin and evolution of RNA editing in metazoans. Cell Reports. 42(2). 112112–112112. 50 indexed citations

Jiménez-Gancedo, Sandra, Martin Franke, Rafael D. Acemel, et al.. (2022). Gain of gene regulatory network interconnectivity at the origin of vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(11). e2114802119–e2114802119. 10 indexed citations

Bertrand, Stéphanie, João E. Carvalho, Delphine Dauga, et al.. (2021). The Ontology of the Amphioxus Anatomy and Life Cycle (AMPHX). Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 668025–668025. 8 indexed citations

Simakov, Oleg, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Jia‐Xing Yue, et al.. (2020). Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(6). 820–830. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

Lin, Che-Yi, Mei‐Yeh Jade Lu, Jia‐Xing Yue, et al.. (2020). Molecular asymmetry in the cephalochordate embryo revealed by single-blastomere transcriptome profiling. PLoS Genetics. 16(12). e1009294–e1009294. 5 indexed citations

Robert, Nicolas, et al.. (2018). Retinoic acid signaling and neurogenic niche regulation in the developing peripheral nervous system of the cephalochordate amphioxus. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 75(13). 2407–2429. 15 indexed citations

Nakashima, Keisuke, Yu Ogawa, Soichi Watanabe, et al.. (2018). Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3402–3402. 61 indexed citations

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Hu, Hai, Masahiro Uesaka, Song Guo, et al.. (2017). Constrained vertebrate evolution by pleiotropic genes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(11). 1722–1730. 62 indexed citations

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Kozmiková, Iryna & Jr‐Kai Yu. (2017). Dorsal-ventral patterning in amphioxus: current understanding, unresolved issues, and future directions. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 61(10-11-12). 601–610. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Yi‐Chih, Hsiu-Chi Ting, Pedro Martı́nez, et al.. (2015). Regulatory circuit rewiring and functional divergence of the duplicate admp genes in dorsoventral axial patterning. Developmental Biology. 410(1). 108–118. 12 indexed citations

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Lin, Ching‐Yi, Che‐Huang Tung, Jr‐Kai Yu, & Yi‐Hsien Su. (2015). Reproductive periodicity, spawning induction, and larval metamorphosis of the hemichordate acorn worm Ptychodera flava. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 326(1). 47–60. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Kunlin, I-Hsuan Lu, Che‐Huang Tung, et al.. (2014). Sequencing and analysis of the transcriptome of the acorn worm Ptychodera flava, an indirect developing hemichordate. Marine Genomics. 15. 35–43. 14 indexed citations

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Holland, Linda Z., João E. Carvalho, Héctor Escrivá, et al.. (2013). Evolution of bilaterian central nervous systems: a single origin?. EvoDevo. 4(1). 27–27. 127 indexed citations

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Ono, Hiroki, Zbyněk Kozmík, Jr‐Kai Yu, & Hiroshi Wada. (2013). A novel N-terminal motif is responsible for the evolution of neural crest-specific gene-regulatory activity in vertebrate FoxD3. Developmental Biology. 385(2). 396–404. 18 indexed citations

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Lu, Tsai-Ming, Yi‐Jyun Luo, & Jr‐Kai Yu. (2012). BMP and Delta/Notch signaling control the development of amphioxus epidermal sensory neurons: insights into the evolution of the peripheral sensory system. Development. 139(11). 2020–2030. 58 indexed citations

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Chen, Yen-Ta, et al.. (2011). Asymmetric localization of germline markers Vasa and Nanos during early development in the amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae. Developmental Biology. 353(1). 147–159. 63 indexed citations

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Onai, Takayuki, Jr‐Kai Yu, Ira L. Blitz, Ken W.Y. Cho, & Linda Z. Holland. (2010). Opposing Nodal/Vg1 and BMP signals mediate axial patterning in embryos of the basal chordate amphioxus. Developmental Biology. 344(1). 377–389. 69 indexed citations

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Renzis, Stefano De, Jr‐Kai Yu, Robert P. Zinzen, & Eric Wieschaus. (2006). Dorsal-Ventral Pattern of Delta Trafficking Is Established by a Snail-Tom-Neuralized Pathway. Developmental Cell. 10(2). 257–264. 71 indexed citations

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