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OBA Yuichi

Department / Course

College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Department of Environmental Biology

Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Museum of Butterfly

Creative Liberal Arts Center

Museum of Ethnology Art

Job Professor

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