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OBA Yuichi

Department / Course

応用生物学部環境生物科学科

大学院応用生物学研究科応用生物学専攻

蝶類研究資料館

創造的リベラルアーツセンター

民族資料博物館

Job 教授

Book and thesis
Books	Firefly genomes illuminate the evolution of beetle bioluminescent system. Cur. Opin. Insect Sci. 50, 100879. 2022
Books	Semi-intrinsic luminescence in marine organisms. In: Bioluminescence. InTech Open. 2021
Books	Selected least studied but not forgotten bioluminescent systems. Photochem. Photobiol. 93,pp.405-415 2017
Books	Bioluminescent Fishes and their Eyes. In: Thirumalai, J. (Ed.) An Outlook on the Phenomena and their Applications. InTech, Croatia. 2016
Books	Eco-Evo Bioluminescence on Land and in the Sea.In: Thouand, G and Marks, R. (Eds.). Bioluminescence: Fundamentals and Applications in Biotechnology Vol. 1., Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology 144,pp.3-36 2014
Books	Insect Bioluminescence in the Post-Molecular Biology Era. In: Hoffmann, K. H. (Ed.) Insect Molecular Biology and Ecology.,pp.88-114 2014
Books	The terrestrial bioluminescent animals of Japan. Zool. Sci. 28,pp.771-789 2011
Papers	A supposedly bioluminescent species of cockroach that would not glow: a case of scientific fraud, erroneous observation or bacterial infection? Arthropod Structure and Development 85 (Co-authored) 2025
Papers	Coelenterazine-dependent bioluminescence in the cyclopoid copepod, Triconia conifera ChemBioChem 26 (Co-authored) 2025
Papers	Analyses of the bioluminescence mechanism in the land snail, Quantula weinkauffiana. Luminescence : the journal of biological and chemical luminescence 39 (6),pp.e4796 (Co-authored) 2024/06
Papers	A practical, biomimetic, one-pot synthesis of firefly luciferin Scientific Reports 14 (Co-authored) 2024
Papers	Global species delimitation of the cosmopolitan marine littoral earthworm Pontodrilus litoralis (Grube, 1855) Scientific Reports 14,pp.1753 (Co-authored) 2024
Papers	A new discovery of the bioluminescent terrestrial snail genus Phuphania (Gastropoda: Dyakiidae) Scientific Reports 13,pp.15173 (Co-authored) 2023/09/13
Papers	Flickering flash signals and mate recognition in the Asian firefly, Aquatica lateralis Scientific Reports 13,pp.2415 (Co-authored) 2023/02/10
Papers	Isolation and characterization of bacteria from the gut of a mesopelagic copepod Cephalophanes reflugens (Copepoda: Calanoida) Journal of Plankton Research,pp.Fbad049 (Co-authored) 2023
Papers	Kleptoprotein bioluminescence: Parapriacanthus fish obtain luciferase from ostracod prey. Science Advances 6,pp.eaax4942. 2020
Papers	Kleptoprotein bioluminescence: Parapriacanthus fish obtain luciferase from ostracod prey. Science Advances 6,pp.eaax4942. 2020
Papers	Resurrecting the ancient glow of the fireflies. Science Advances 6,pp.eabc5705. 2020
Papers	2-S-cysteinylhydroquinone is an intermediate for the firefly luciferin biosynthesis that occurs in the pupal stage of the Japanese firefly, Luciola lateralis. Bioorg. Chem. 80,pp.223-229 2018
Papers	Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles. eLife 7,pp.e36495. 2018
Papers	Genetically encodable bioluminescent system from fungi. PNAS 115,pp.12728-12732 2018
Papers	Luciferase of the Japanese syllid polychaete Odontosyllis undecimdonta. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 502,pp.318-323 2018
Papers	Biochemical characteristics and gene expression profiles of two paralogous luciferases from the Japanese firefly Pyrocoelia atripennis (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Lampyrinae): Insight into the evolution of firefly luciferase genes. Photochem. Phtobiol. Sci. 16,pp.1301-1310 2017
Papers	Comparative analysis of firefly luciferase genes: Evolution of the intron-exon structure. Lampyrid 4,pp.59-66 2017
Papers	Identification and characterization of the Luc2-type luciferase in the Japanese firefly, Luciola parvula, involved in a dim luminescence in immobile stages. Luminescence 32,pp.924-931 2017
Papers	Cloning of the blue ghost (Phausis reticulate) luciferase reveals a glowing source of green light. Photochem. Photobiol. 93,pp.473-478 2016
Papers	One-pot non-enzymatic formation of firefly luciferinin a neutral buffer from p-benzoquinone and cysteine. Scientific Reports 6: 24794 2016
Papers	Medaka (Oryzias latipes) FTZ-F1 potentially regulates the transcription of P-450 aromatase in ovarian follicles: cDNA cloning and functional characterization Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 149 (1-2),pp.221-228 (Co-authored) 1999/03