Jun Kitano

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Jun Kitano is a scholar working on Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun Kitano has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Genetics, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jun Kitano's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (49 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (27 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (19 papers). Jun Kitano is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (49 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (27 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (19 papers). Jun Kitano collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Indonesia. Jun Kitano's co-authors include Catherine L. Peichel, Seiichi Mori, Mark Kirkpatrick, Kohta Yoshida, Jana C. Vamosi, Nicole Valenzuela, Sarah P. Otto, Asano Ishikawa, Itay Mayrose and Laura Ross and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jun Kitano

88 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

2014 836 citations Doris Bachtrog, Judith E. Mank et al. PLoS Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jun Kitano Japan	25	2.4k	859	856	761	689	93	3.4k
Nicole Valenzuela United States	38	2.7k 1.1×	893 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	774 1.0×	1.4k 2.1×	91	4.3k
Bruce J. Turner United States	29	1.5k 0.6×	643 0.7×	599 0.7×	755 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	79	3.0k
Yohey Terai Japan	21	1.2k 0.5×	601 0.7×	775 0.9×	1.0k 1.4×	734 1.1×	54	2.9k
Maren Wellenreuther New Zealand	32	1.7k 0.7×	460 0.5×	849 1.0×	767 1.0×	585 0.8×	108	3.2k
Maria M. Coelho Portugal	34	1.8k 0.7×	420 0.5×	343 0.4×	768 1.0×	1.4k 2.1×	114	3.2k
Felicity C. Jones Canada	27	1.9k 0.8×	392 0.5×	972 1.1×	901 1.2×	951 1.4×	47	3.6k
Suzanne Edmands United States	29	2.0k 0.8×	336 0.4×	767 0.9×	651 0.9×	710 1.0×	63	3.5k
James P. Bogart Canada	35	2.1k 0.9×	983 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	618 0.8×	583 0.8×	114	3.7k
Bernard Angers Canada	25	1.3k 0.5×	309 0.4×	434 0.5×	587 0.8×	675 1.0×	77	2.2k
Robb F. Leary United States	30	3.0k 1.2×	489 0.6×	581 0.7×	558 0.7×	2.4k 3.5×	50	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jun Kitano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jun Kitano

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jun Kitano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jun Kitano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jun Kitano based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jun Kitano. Jun Kitano is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Mori, Seiichi, et al.. (2025). Divergent developmental trajectories of body depth and head length among stickleback populations. Ichthyological Research. 73(1). 154–162.

Gotoh, Hiroki, et al.. (2024). Induction of male‐like mandibles in XX individuals of a stag beetle by gene knockdown of a feminizer gene transformer. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 344(1). 7–13. 1 indexed citations

Masengi, Kawilarang W. A., Atsushi J. Nagano, Ryo Kakioka, et al.. (2023). Multiple colonizations and hybridization of a freshwater fish group on a satellite island of Sulawesi. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 184. 107804–107804. 2 indexed citations

Kitano, Jun & Kohta Yoshida. (2023). Do sex-linked male meiotic drivers contribute to intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities? Recent empirical studies from flies and rodents. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 81. 102068–102068. 3 indexed citations

Reifová, Radka, S. Lorena Ament‐Velásquez, Yann Bourgeois, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms of Intrinsic Postzygotic Isolation: From Traditional Genic and Chromosomal Views to Genomic and Epigenetic Perspectives. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 15(10). a041607–a041607. 19 indexed citations

Ansai, Satoshi, Javier Montenegro, Kawilarang W. A. Masengi, et al.. (2022). Diversity of sex chromosomes in Sulawesian medaka fishes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(12). 1751–1764. 7 indexed citations

Montenegro, Javier, Shingo Fujimoto, Satoshi Ansai, et al.. (2022). Genetic basis for the evolution of pelvic‐fin brooding, a new mode of reproduction, in a Sulawesian fish. Molecular Ecology. 31(14). 3798–3811. 5 indexed citations

Kakioka, Ryo, Javier Montenegro, Kawilarang W. A. Masengi, et al.. (2021). Species divergence and repeated ancient hybridization in a Sulawesian lake system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(11). 1767–1780. 16 indexed citations

Twining, Cornelia W., Joey R. Bernhardt, Alison M. Derry, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification. Ecology Letters. 24(8). 1709–1731. 83 indexed citations

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Kitano, Jun, Ryo Kakioka, Asano Ishikawa, Atsushi Toyoda, & Makoto Kusakabe. (2020). Differences in the contributions of sex linkage and androgen regulation to sex‐biased gene expression in juvenile and adult sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(8). 1129–1138. 6 indexed citations

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Mori, Seiichi, et al.. (2019). Diversity of gill raker number and diets among stickleback populations in novel habitats created by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Evolutionary ecology research. 20(2). 213–230. 6 indexed citations

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Webster, Mike, Laura Chouinard‐Thuly, Gábor Herczeg, et al.. (2019). A four-questions perspective on public information use in sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae). Royal Society Open Science. 6(2). 181735–181735. 13 indexed citations

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Mori, Seiichi, et al.. (2019). Armour plate diversity in Japanese freshwater Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Evolutionary ecology research. 20(1). 51–67. 8 indexed citations

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Kusakabe, Makoto, Seiichi Mori, & Jun Kitano. (2019). Gill Na+/K+-ATPase in the Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): changes in transcript levels and sites of expression during acclimation to seawater. Evolutionary ecology research. 20(3). 349–363. 3 indexed citations

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Montenegro, Javier, Shingo Fujimoto, Asano Ishikawa, et al.. (2017). Phylogenomics reveals habitat-associated body shape divergence in Oryzias woworae species group (Teleostei: Adrianichthyidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 118. 194–203. 17 indexed citations

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Ravinet, Mark, Asano Ishikawa, & Jun Kitano. (2016). Trophic niche differentiation and phenotypic divergence among cryptic species of Japanese ninespine sticklebacks. Evolutionary ecology research. 17(4). 505–523. 5 indexed citations

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Yamahira, Kazunori, Shingo Fujimoto, Javier Montenegro, et al.. (2016). Lokasi Baru Spesies Grup Oryzias Woworae (Adrianichthyidae) Di Sulawesi Tenggara [ New Localities of the Oryzias Woworae Species Group (Adrianichthyidae) ]. Jurnal Iktiologi Indonesia. 16(2). 125–131. 1 indexed citations

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Bachtrog, Doris, Judith E. Mank, Catherine L. Peichel, et al.. (2014). Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?. PLoS Biology. 12(7). e1001899–e1001899. 836 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cassidy, Lara M., Mark Ravinet, Seiichi Mori, & Jun Kitano. (2013). Are Japanese freshwater populations of threespine stickleback derived from the Pacific Ocean lineage. Evolutionary ecology research. 15(3). 295–311. 13 indexed citations

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Adachi, T., Asano Ishikawa, Seiichi Mori, et al.. (2012). Shifts in morphology and diet of non‐native sticklebacks introduced into Japanese crater lakes. Ecology and Evolution. 2(6). 1083–1098. 20 indexed citations

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