| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Bivalve-specific gene expansion in the pearl oyster genome: implications of adaptation to a sessile lifestyle | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 133 |
| 2 | Recent progress in understanding the role of ecdysteroids in adult insects: Germline development and circadian clock in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 92 |
| 3 | Evolution of the vertebrate skeleton: morphology, embryology, and development | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 86 |
| 4 | Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste in whales | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 85 |
| 5 | High diversity in species, reproductive modes and distribution within the Paramacrobiotus richtersi complex (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) | Zoological Letters | 2019 | 84 |
| 6 | Planarian shows decision-making behavior in response to multiple stimuli by integrative brain function | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 77 |
| 7 | Common features in diverse insect clocks | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 62 |
| 8 | Did homeobox gene duplications contribute to the Cambrian explosion? | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 45 |
| 9 | Paternal phylogeographic structure of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in northeastern Asia and the effect of male-mediated gene flow to insular populations | Zoological Letters | 2017 | 42 |
| 10 | Morphogenesis and development of midgut symbiotic organ of the stinkbug Plautia stali (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) | Zoological Letters | 2019 | 42 |
| 11 | cryptochrome genes form an oscillatory loop independent of the per/tim loop in the circadian clockwork of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus | Zoological Letters | 2017 | 41 |
| 12 | Highly efficient generation of knock-in transgenic medaka by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 41 |
| 13 | The ride of the parasite: a 100-million-year old mantis lacewing larva captured while mounting its spider host | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 39 |
| 14 | A novel photic entrainment mechanism for the circadian clock in an insect: involvement of c-fos and cryptochromes | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 39 |
| 15 | Trabecular architecture in the sciuromorph femoral head: allometry and functional adaptation | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 39 |
| 16 | DNA metabarcoding of spiders, insects, and springtails for exploring potential linkage between above- and below-ground food webs | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 39 |
| 17 | Draft genome of Dugesia japonica provides insights into conserved regulatory elements of the brain restriction gene nou-darake in planarians | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 38 |
| 18 | The phylogenetic position of dicyemid mesozoans offers insights into spiralian evolution | Zoological Letters | 2017 | 37 |
| 19 | Green-sensitive opsin is the photoreceptor for photic entrainment of an insect circadian clock | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 35 |
| 20 | Amphioxus mouth after dorso-ventral inversion | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 35 |
| 21 | Evolution of the vertebrate neurocranium: problems of the premandibular domain and the origin of the trabecula | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 35 |
| 22 | A 100-million-year old predator: a fossil neuropteran larva with unusually elongated mouthparts | Zoological Letters | 2019 | 35 |
| 23 | Evidence for a cordal, not ganglionic, pattern of cephalopod brain neurogenesis | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 34 |
| 24 | Recurrent evolution of gut symbiotic bacteria in pentatomid stinkbugs | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 33 |
| 25 | Infection prevalence of Sodalis symbionts among stinkbugs | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 32 |
| 26 | The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition | Zoological Letters | 2018 | 32 |
| 27 | Substrate vibrations mediate behavioral responses via femoral chordotonal organs in a cerambycid beetle | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 31 |
| 28 | An efficient system for homology-dependent targeted gene integration in medaka (Oryzias latipes) | Zoological Letters | 2017 | 31 |
| 29 | Morphology of brood pouch formation in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis | Zoological Letters | 2017 | 30 |
| 30 | On the peculiar morphology and development of the hypoglossal, glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves and hypobranchial muscles in the hagfish | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 29 |
| 31 | Opposite-directional sex change in functional female protandrous anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii: effect of aromatase inhibitor on the ovarian tissue | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 28 |
| 32 | Unaltered sequence of dental, skeletal, and sexual maturity in domestic dogs compared to the wolf | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 28 |
| 33 | Evolutionary and developmental understanding of the spinal accessory nerve | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 27 |
| 34 | Sex chromosome evolution in snakes inferred from divergence patterns of two gametologous genes and chromosome distribution of sex chromosome-linked repetitive sequences | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 27 |
| 35 | On the development of the chondrocranium and the histological anatomy of the head in perinatal stages of marsupial mammals | Zoological Letters | 2017 | 27 |
| 36 | Morphological investigations of posttraumatic regeneration in Timarete cf. punctata (Annelida: Cirratulidae) | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 26 |
| 37 | Distal-less induces elemental color patterns in Junonia butterfly wings | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 26 |
| 38 | Cellular and molecular aspects of oocyte maturation and fertilization: a perspective from the actin cytoskeleton | Zoological Letters | 2020 | 26 |
| 39 | Evidence for an amphibian sixth digit | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 25 |
| 40 | A new redescription of Richtersius coronifer, supported by transcriptome, provides resources for describing concealed species diversity within the monotypic genus Richtersius (Eutardigrada) | Zoological Letters | 2020 | 25 |
| 41 | Mechanisms of wound closure following acute arm injury in Octopus vulgaris | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 24 |
| 42 | Recapitulation-like developmental transitions of chromatin accessibility in vertebrates | Zoological Letters | 2019 | 24 |
| 43 | Urban soil compaction reduces cicada diversity | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 22 |
| 44 | What is Xenoturbella? | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 22 |
| 45 | Toward elucidating diversity of neural mechanisms underlying insect learning | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 22 |
| 46 | Unexpected link between polyketide synthase and calcium carbonate biomineralization | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 22 |
| 47 | Combined pigmentary and structural effects tune wing scale coloration to color vision in the swallowtail butterfly Papilio xuthus | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 22 |
| 48 | Phylogenetic position of Loricifera inferred from nearly complete 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences | Zoological Letters | 2015 | 22 |
| 49 | Occasional cooperative breeding in birds and the robustness of comparative analyses concerning the evolution of cooperative breeding | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 22 |
| 50 | Comparative morphology and development of extra-ocular muscles in the lamprey and gnathostomes reveal the ancestral state and developmental patterns of the vertebrate head | Zoological Letters | 2016 | 22 |
