Toshiki Tamura

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

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Toshiki Tamura is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Toshiki Tamura has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Molecular Biology, 60 papers in Biomaterials and 44 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Toshiki Tamura's work include Silk-based biomaterials and applications (60 papers), Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (42 papers) and Silkworms and Sericulture Research (31 papers). Toshiki Tamura is often cited by papers focused on Silk-based biomaterials and applications (60 papers), Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (42 papers) and Silkworms and Sericulture Research (31 papers). Toshiki Tamura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Czechia and United States. Toshiki Tamura's co-authors include Hideki Sezutsu, Keiro Uchino, Isao Kobayashi, Toshio Kanda, Kazuei Mita, Natuo Kômoto, Yoko Takasu, Toru Shimada, Naoyuki Yonemura and Michal Žurovec and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Toshiki Tamura

121 papers receiving 4.9k citations

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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.

Germline transformation of the silkworm Bombyx mori L. using a piggyBac transposon-derived vector

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toshiki Tamura Japan	41	2.9k	1.9k	1.8k	1.1k	1.1k	123	5.0k
Hideki Sezutsu Japan	41	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	724 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	172	5.0k
Toru Shimada Japan	46	3.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	3.6k 2.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	241	7.2k
Yasuyuki Arakane United States	40	3.1k 1.1×	558 0.3×	2.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	68	4.9k
Pierre Couble France	32	2.2k 0.8×	969 0.5×	717 0.4×	401 0.4×	530 0.5×	60	3.2k
Keiro Uchino Japan	30	1.4k 0.5×	807 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	404 0.4×	730 0.7×	73	2.4k
František Sehnal Czechia	37	1.0k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	490 0.4×	1.8k 1.6×	164	3.9k
Bernard Moussian Germany	37	2.9k 1.0×	499 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	920 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	143	4.8k
Malcolm J. Fraser United States	37	4.5k 1.6×	653 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	787 0.7×	293 0.3×	91	5.8k
Qingyou Xia China	57	6.8k 2.4×	3.5k 1.9×	4.4k 2.5×	2.8k 2.5×	2.7k 2.4×	499	12.9k
Gianluca Tettamanti Italy	36	1.5k 0.5×	186 0.1×	1.9k 1.1×	788 0.7×	411 0.4×	156	4.3k

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Uchino, Keiro, Megumi Sumitani, Katsura Kojima, et al.. (2024). Egg Cooling After Oviposition Extends the Permissive Period for Microinjection-Mediated Genome Modification in Bombyx mori. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(23). 12642–12642. 1 indexed citations

Yonemura, Naoyuki, Hiroki Sakai, Keiro Uchino, et al.. (2023). Development of an Injection Method for the Genetic Engineering of Diapause Silkworm Egg Using Dimethyl Sulfoxide. Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly JARQ. 57(1). 63–72.

Yonemura, Naoyuki, Keiro Uchino, Tetsuya Iizuka, et al.. (2021). Production of cloned transgenic silkworms by breeding non-diapausing parthenogenetic strains. Journal of Insect Physiology. 132. 104265–104265. 4 indexed citations

Takasu, Yoko, Hana Sehadová, Naoyuki Yonemura, et al.. (2021). Mutation in Bombyx mori fibrohexamerin (P25) gene causes reorganization of rough endoplasmic reticulum in posterior silk gland cells and alters morphology of fibroin secretory globules in the silk gland lumen. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 135. 103607–103607. 18 indexed citations

Kobayashi, Isao, Keiro Uchino, Tetsuya Iizuka, et al.. (2011). Rescue of the Aojuku white-egg translucent (w-3ol) Bombyx mori mutant by transgenic expression of the wild-type Bmwh3 gene. Journal of insect biotechnology and sericology. 79(3). 111–116. 3 indexed citations

Sakudoh, Takashi, Tetsuya Iizuka, Junko Narukawa, et al.. (2010). A CD36-related Transmembrane Protein Is Coordinated with an Intracellular Lipid-binding Protein in Selective Carotenoid Transport for Cocoon Coloration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(10). 7739–7751. 76 indexed citations

Sezutsu, Hideki, Toshiki Tamura, & Kenji Yukuhiro. (2009). Uniform size of leucine-rich repeats in a wild silk moth Saturnia japonica (Lepidoptera Saturniidae) fibroin. 13. 53–60. 3 indexed citations

Sezutsu, Hideki, Keiro Uchino, Isao Kobayashi, et al.. (2009). Conservation of fibroin gene promoter function between the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori and the wild silkmoth Antheraea yamamai. Journal of insect biotechnology and sericology. 78(1). 1–10. 16 indexed citations

Tamura, Toshiki, Nobuo Kuwabara, Keiro Uchino, Isao Kobayashi, & Toshio Kanda. (2007). An Improved DNA Injection Method for Silkworm Eggs Drastically Increases the Efficiency of Producing Transgenic Silkworms. Journal of insect biotechnology and sericology. 76(3). 155–159. 39 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Isao, Keiro Uchino, Hideki Sezutsu, Tetsuya Iizuka, & Toshiki Tamura. (2007). Development of a New piggyBac Vector for Generating Transgenic Silkworms using the Kynurenine 3-mono Oxygenase Gene. Journal of insect biotechnology and sericology. 76(3). 145–148. 20 indexed citations

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Uchino, Keiro, Morikazu Imamura, Hideki Sezutsu, et al.. (2006). Evaluating Promoter Sequences for Trapping an Enhancer Activity in the Silkworm Bombyx mori. Journal of insect biotechnology and sericology. 75(2). 89–97. 30 indexed citations

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Tamura, Toshiki, Osamu Igarashi, Ayako Hino, et al.. (2001). Impairment in the Expression and Activity of Fyn During Differentiation of Naive CD4+ T Cells into the Th2 Subset. The Journal of Immunology. 167(4). 1962–1969. 32 indexed citations

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Tamura, Toshiki, Toshio Kanda, Natuo Kômoto, et al.. (1999). Rescue of oq, og and ogt mutants by injection of xanthine oxidase. Nihon sanshigaku zasshi. 68(2). 111–117. 8 indexed citations

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Kômoto, Natuo, Kenji Yukuhiro, & Toshiki Tamura. (1999). Relationship between the BmXDH1 gene and the oq translucent-skin silkworm mutant. Nihon sanshigaku zasshi. 68(5). 357–363. 4 indexed citations

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Kanda, Toshio, et al.. (1996). Development of new method for artificial insemination of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Nihon sanshigaku zasshi. 65(6). 456–463. 8 indexed citations

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Tamura, Toshiki, et al.. (1992). Production of Porcine Growth Hormone in the Silkworm, Bombyx Mori, Using a Baculovirus Expression Vector. Nihon Chikusan Gakkaiho. 63(4). 349–357. 3 indexed citations

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Kanda, Toshio, et al.. (1986). A determination of the egg shape and the embryo differentiation in the kidney-shaped egg mutant of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, by the mother's ovary-genotype. Nihon sanshigaku zasshi. 55(6). 504–509. 1 indexed citations

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Doira, Hiroshi, et al.. (1981). Genetical studies of the “mottled translucent of Var” mutations in Bombyx mori. Nihon sanshigaku zasshi. 50(3). 185–189. 2 indexed citations

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Tamura, Toshiki. (1978). Phenocopy induction of the translucent silkworm with allopurinol. Nihon sanshigaku zasshi. 47(4). 338–342. 2 indexed citations

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Tamura, Toshiki. (1977). Deficiency in xanthine dehydrogenase activity in the og and ogt mutants of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Nihon sanshigaku zasshi. 46(2). 113–119. 17 indexed citations

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