Field of Research

developmental biology, mathematical biology

we are interested in the dynamic behavior of biological system consisted of the complex network of interactions among cells and genes.

Selected Publications
  • Watanabe M, Iwashita M, Ishii M, Kurachi Y, Kawakami A, Kondo S and Okada N.:Spot pattern of leopard Danio is caused by mutation in the zebrafish connexin41.8 gene  EMBO Rep. (2006)

  • Kazuki Horikawa, Kana Ishimatsu, Eiichi Yoshimoto, Shigeru Kondo and Hiroyuki Takeda:Noise-resistant and synchronized oscillation of the segmentation clock 
    Nature 441, 719-723 (2006)

  • Motoko Iwashita, Masakatsu Watanabe, Masaru Ishii, Tim Chen, Stephen L. Johnson, Yoshihisa Kurachi, Norihiro Okada and Shigeru Kondo:
    Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channel Kir7.1 Controls the Width of Zebrafish Stripes
    PlosGenetics in press(2006)

  • Hirata, M., nakamura, K., Kondo, S.: Pigment cell Distributions in Different Tissues of the Zebrafish, With Special Reference to the Sriped Pigment Pattern Dev. Dyn.  234, 293-300(2005)

  • Kondo, S: cell-cell Interaction Network That Generattes the Skin Pattern of animal 
    Genome Informatics 2005, vol.16,No.2, 287-291(2005)

  • Traveling stripes on the skin of a mutant mouse, Suzuki, N., Hirata, M., and Kondo, S., PNAS 2003, 100, 9680-9685

  • Pigment cell organization in the gypodermis of zebrafish, Hirata, M., Nakamura, K., Kanemura, T., Shibata, Y., and Kondo, S.,Dev. Dyn. 2003, 227,497-503

  • Origin of the directionality in the fish stripe pattern, Shoji-H, Mochizuki-A, Iwasa-Y, Hioki-K and Kondo-S., Dev. Dyn. 2003, 226,627-633

  • The reaction-diffusion system: a mechansim for autonomous pattern formation in the animal skin, Kondo-S.,Genes to cells, 2002, 7,535-542

  •  Directionality of stripe formed by anisotropic reaction-diffusion models, Shoji-S, Iwasa-Y, Mochizuki-A and Kondo-S, J. theor. Biol 2002, 214,549-561

  • Zebrafish leopard gene as a component of the putative reaction-diffusion system, Asai R, Taguchi E, Kume Y, Saito M, Kondo S., Mech Dev. 1999 Dec;89(1-2):87-92.

  •  Frequent but biased class switch recombination in the S mu flanking regions., Lee CG, Kondo S, Honjo T.,Curr Biol 1998Feb 12;8(4):227-30

  • A viable reaction-diffusion wave on the skin of Pomacanthus, a  marine angelfish., Kondo-S and Asai-R, Nature, 1995 Aug 31, 376: 765-768

  •  A mechanistic model for morphogenesis and regeneration of limbs  and imaginal discs., Kondo-S.,Mech Dev.1992. Aug 31; 39: 161-170

  • Expression of functional human interleukin-2 receptor in mouse T cells by cDNA transfection., Kondo-S; Shimizu-A; Maeda-M; Tagaya-Y; Yodoi-J; Honjo-T.,Nature. 1986 Mar 6-12; 320(6057): 75-7