| The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 1 T Sasaki, T Matsumoto, K Yamamoto, K Sakata, T Baba, Y Katayose, J Wu, ... Nature 420 (6913), 312, 2002 | 683 | 2002 |
| The evolution of animal chemosensory receptor gene repertoires: roles of chance and necessity M Nei, Y Niimura, M Nozawa Nature Reviews Genetics 9 (12), 951, 2008 | 421 | 2008 |
| The map-based sequence of the rice genome T Matsumoto, J Wu, H Kanamori, Y Katayose, M Fujisawa, N Namiki, ... Nature 436 (7052), 793-800, 2005 | 376 | 2005 |
| The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan Z Wang, J Pascual-Anaya, A Zadissa, W Li, Y Niimura, Z Huang, C Li, ... Nature genetics 45 (6), 701, 2013 | 260 | 2013 |
| Extensive gains and losses of olfactory receptor genes in mammalian evolution Y Niimura, M Nei PloS one 2 (8), e708, 2007 | 256 | 2007 |
| Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in fishes and tetrapods Y Niimura, M Nei Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (17), 6039-6044, 2005 | 250 | 2005 |
| Evolution of olfactory receptor genes in the human genome Y Niimura, M Nei Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (21), 12235-12240, 2003 | 250 | 2003 |
| Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory and other chemosensory receptor genes in vertebrates Y Niimura, M Nei Journal of human genetics 51 (6), 505, 2006 | 185 | 2006 |
| Diversity of preferred nucleotide sequences around the translation initiation codon in eukaryote genomes S Nakagawa, Y Niimura, T Gojobori, H Tanaka, K Miura Nucleic acids research 36 (3), 861-871, 2007 | 153 | 2007 |
| Extreme expansion of the olfactory receptor gene repertoire in African elephants and evolutionary dynamics of orthologous gene groups in 13 placental mammals Y Niimura, A Matsui, K Touhara Genome research 24 (9), 1485-1496, 2014 | 135 | 2014 |
| Olfactory receptor multigene family in vertebrates: from the viewpoint of evolutionary genomics Y Niimura Current genomics 13 (2), 103-114, 2012 | 117 | 2012 |
| Degeneration of olfactory receptor gene repertories in primates: no direct link to full trichromatic vision A Matsui, Y Go, Y Niimura Molecular biology and evolution 27 (5), 1192-1200, 2010 | 116 | 2010 |
| On the origin and evolution of vertebrate olfactory receptor genes: comparative genome analysis among 23 chordate species Y Niimura Genome Biology and Evolution 1, 34-44, 2009 | 107 | 2009 |
| Comparative evolutionary analysis of olfactory receptor gene clusters between humans and mice Y Niimura, M Nei Gene 346, 13-21, 2005 | 106 | 2005 |
| Dynamic evolution of translation initiation mechanisms in prokaryotes S Nakagawa, Y Niimura, K Miura, T Gojobori Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (14), 6382-6387, 2010 | 100 | 2010 |
| Similar numbers but different repertoires of olfactory receptor genes in humans and chimpanzees Y Go, Y Niimura Molecular biology and evolution 25 (9), 1897-1907, 2008 | 93 | 2008 |
| Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in chordates: interaction between environments and genomic contents Y Niimura Human genomics 4 (2), 107, 2009 | 77 | 2009 |
| The H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB), a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts Genome Information Integration Project And H-Invitational 2 Nucleic acids research 36 (suppl_1), D793-D799, 2007 | 71 | 2007 |
| Evolutionary changes of the number of olfactory receptor genes in the human and mouse lineages Y Niimura, M Nei Gene 346, 23-28, 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| Module–intron correlation and intron sliding in family F/10 xylanase genes Y Sato, Y Niimura, K Yura, M Gō Gene 238 (1), 93-101, 1999 | 48 | 1999 |
Masatoshi NeiLaura Carnell Professor of Biology, Temple UniversityVerified email at temple.edu
