Yohey Terai

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Yohey Terai is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yohey Terai has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Genetics, 20 papers in Ecology and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yohey Terai's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (16 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (11 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (10 papers). Yohey Terai is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (16 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (11 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (10 papers). Yohey Terai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Tanzania and Taiwan. Yohey Terai's co-authors include Norihiro Okada, Hiroo Imai, Karen L. Carleton, Hidenori Tachida, Hillary D. J. Mrosso, Ryutaro Miyagi, Ole Seehausen, Maria Victoria Schneider, Isabel S. Magalhaes and Inke van der Sluijs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yohey Terai

52 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 250 500 750
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.

  1. Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish
    2008 839 citations Ole Seehausen, Yohey Terai et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yohey Terai Japan 21 1.2k 1.0k 775 734 687 54 2.9k
Maren Wellenreuther New Zealand 32 1.7k 1.4× 767 0.7× 849 1.1× 585 0.8× 968 1.4× 108 3.2k
Michael Matschiner Norway 28 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 1.0× 539 0.7× 892 1.2× 804 1.2× 57 3.1k
Brant K. Peterson United States 15 2.2k 1.8× 1.6k 1.5× 784 1.0× 482 0.7× 819 1.2× 15 4.0k
Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra United Kingdom 29 2.4k 2.0× 1.0k 1.0× 1.6k 2.0× 498 0.7× 714 1.0× 59 3.6k
Jun Kitano Japan 25 2.4k 2.0× 761 0.7× 856 1.1× 689 0.9× 568 0.8× 93 3.4k
Jesse N. Weber United States 21 2.5k 2.1× 1.4k 1.4× 874 1.1× 588 0.8× 1.1k 1.6× 34 4.3k
Steaphan P. Hazell United Kingdom 9 986 0.8× 567 0.5× 913 1.2× 373 0.5× 1.1k 1.5× 10 2.6k
Mark Dickson United States 12 1.3k 1.1× 913 0.9× 379 0.5× 387 0.5× 314 0.5× 15 2.6k
Kathryn R. Elmer United Kingdom 30 1.4k 1.1× 689 0.7× 565 0.7× 1.1k 1.5× 741 1.1× 90 2.8k
Sissel Jentoft Norway 32 1.3k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 198 0.3× 909 1.2× 960 1.4× 98 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yohey Terai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yohey Terai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yohey Terai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yohey Terai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yohey Terai 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 Yohey Terai. Yohey Terai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Matsumoto, Yuki, et al.. (2024). Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1680–1680. 7 indexed citations
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Kasai, Kenji, et al.. (2023). The history of ancient Japanese dogs revealed by mitogenomes. Anthropological Science. 132(1). 1–11.
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Terai, Yohey, et al.. (2022). Functional divergence of the pigmentation gene melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) in six endemic Macaca species on Sulawesi Island. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 7593–7593. 5 indexed citations
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Satoh, Aya, et al.. (2021). De novo assembly and annotation of the mangrove cricket genome. BMC Research Notes. 14(1). 387–387. 10 indexed citations
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Terai, Yohey, et al.. (2021). Two divergent haplogroups of a sacsin-like gene in Acropora corals. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 23018–23018. 3 indexed citations
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Kishida, Takushi, Takahiko Hariyama, Takashi Okitsu, et al.. (2020). Visual adaptation of opsin genes to the aquatic environment in sea snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 158–158. 6 indexed citations
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Sakai, Kazuhiko, et al.. (2020). Presence–absence polymorphisms of single-copy genes in the stony coral Acropora digitifera. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 158–158. 6 indexed citations
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Widayati, Kanthi Arum, et al.. (2019). Functional divergence of the bitter receptor TAS2R38 in Sulawesi macaques. Ecology and Evolution. 9(18). 10387–10403. 8 indexed citations
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Satoh, Aya & Yohey Terai. (2019). Circatidal gene expression in the mangrove cricket Apteronemobius asahinai. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3719–3719. 20 indexed citations
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Takuno, Shohei, Ryutaro Miyagi, Akie Sato, et al.. (2019). Patterns of genomic differentiation between two Lake Victoria cichlid species, Haplochromis pyrrhocephalus and H. sp. ‘macula’. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19(1). 68–68. 6 indexed citations
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Terai, Yohey, Hideyuki Tanabe, Gen Morimoto, et al.. (2017). Male‐specific mortality biases secondary sex ratio in Eurasian tree sparrows Passer montanus. Ecology and Evolution. 7(24). 10675–10682. 9 indexed citations
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Satta, Yoko, et al.. (2015). Genetic diversity of fluorescent protein genes generated by gene duplication and alternative splicing in reef-building corals. Zoological Letters. 1(1). 23–23. 3 indexed citations
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Inomata, Nobuyuki, Shinji Mizoiri, Mitsuto Aibara, et al.. (2014). High prevalence of non-synonymous substitutions in mtDNA of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria. Gene. 552(2). 239–245. 4 indexed citations
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Kusumi, Junko, Shinji Mizoiri, Mitsuto Aibara, et al.. (2013). Genetic Structure of Pelagic and Littoral Cichlid Fishes from Lake Victoria. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74088–e74088. 12 indexed citations
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Miyagi, Ryutaro, Yohey Terai, Mitsuto Aibara, et al.. (2012). Correlation between Nuptial Colors and Visual Sensitivities Tuned by Opsins Leads to Species Richness in Sympatric Lake Victoria Cichlid Fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(11). 3281–3296. 41 indexed citations
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Seehausen, Ole, Yohey Terai, Isabel S. Magalhaes, et al.. (2008). Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish. Nature. 455(7213). 620–626. 839 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nishihara, Hidenori, Yohey Terai, & Norihiro Okada. (2002). Characterization of Novel Alu- and tRNA-Related SINEs from the Tree Shrew and Evolutionary Implications of Their Origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19(11). 1964–1972. 67 indexed citations
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Terai, Yohey, Kazuyoshi Takahashi, & Norihiro Okada. (1998). SINE Cousins: The 3'-End Tails of the Two Oldest and Distantly Related Families of SINEs are Descended from the 3' Ends of LINEs with the Same Genealogical Origin. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15(11). 1460–1471. 45 indexed citations
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