Takahiro Kikawada
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization(JP)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Tardigrade Biology and Ecology, Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology, Spaceflight effects on biology, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Most-Cited Works
- → Trehalose transporter 1, a facilitated and high-capacity trehalose transporter, allows exogenous trehalose uptake into cells(2007)273 cited
- → Vitrification is essential for anhydrobiosis in an African chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki(2008)250 cited
- → Dehydration-induced expression of LEA proteins in an anhydrobiotic chironomid(2006)222 cited
- → Mechanism allowing an insect to survive complete dehydration and extreme temperatures(2002)213 cited
- → Radiation tolerance in the tardigradeMilnesium tardigradum(2006)198 cited
- → The trehalose transporter 1 gene sequence is conserved in insects and encodes proteins with different kinetic properties involved in trehalose import into peripheral tissues(2009)148 cited
- → Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge(2014)143 cited
- → Desiccation-Induced Structuralization and Glass Formation of Group 3 Late Embryogenesis Abundant Protein Model Peptides(2009)135 cited
- → The induction of anhydrobiosis in the sleeping chironomid: Current status of our knowledge(2011)131 cited
- → Increase of internal ion concentration triggers trehalose synthesis associated with cryptobiosis in larvae of Polypedilum vanderplanki(2003)102 cited