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          | Selected 
            peer-reviewed publications |   
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          | 1) | Kono T, Obata Y, Wu Q, Niwa K, Ono Y, Yamamoto Y, Park 
            ES, Seo JS, Ogawa H. Birth of parthenogenetic mice that can develop 
            to adult. Nature 428, 860-864, 2004. |   
          | 2) | Teranishi 
            T, Tanaka M, Kimoto S, Ono Y, Miyakoshi K, Kono T, Yoshimura Y. Rapid 
            replacement of somatic linker histones with the oocyte-specific linker 
            histone H1foo in nuclear transfer. Dev. Biol. 266, 78-86, 2004. |   
          | 3) | Ogawa H, 
            Ono Y, Shimozawa N, Sotomaru Y, Katsuzawa Y, Hiura H, Ito M, Kono 
            T. Disruption of imprinting in cloned mouse fetuses from embryonic 
            stem cells. Reproduction 126, 549-557, 2003. |   
          | 4) | Nikaido I, 
            Saito C, Mizuno Y, Meguro M, Bono H, Kadomura M, Kono T, Morris GA, 
            Lyons PA, Oshimura M, Hayashizaki Y, Okazaki Y. Discovery of imprinted 
            transcripts in the mouse transcriptome using large-scale expression 
            profiling. Genome Res.13, 1402-1409, 2003. |   
          | 5) | Bao S, Ushijima 
            H, Hirose A, Aono F, Ono Y, Kono T. Development of bovine oocytes 
            reconstructed with a nucleus from growing stage oocytes after fertilization 
            in vitro. Theriogenology 59, 1231-1239, 2003. |   
          | 6) | Shimozawa, 
            N., Ono, Y., Kimoto, S., Hioki, K., Araki, Y., Shinkai, Y., Kono, 
            T. and Ito, M. Abnormalities in cloned mice are not transmitted to 
            the progeny. Genesis 34: 203-207, 2002. |   
          | 7) | Obata, Y., 
            Kono, T. and Hatada, I. Maturation of mouse fetal germ cells in vitro. 
            Nature 418, 497-498, 2002. |   
          | 8) | Bao, S., 
            Obata, Y., Ono, Y., Futatsumata, N., Niimura, S. and Kono, T. Nuclear 
            competence for maturation and pronuclear formation in mouse oocytes. 
            Human Reprod.17, 1311-1316, 2002. |   
          | 9) | Sotomaru, 
            Y., Katsuzawa, Y., Hatada, I., Obata, Y., Sasaki, H. and Kono, T. 
            Unregulated expression of the imprinted Genes H19 and Igf2r in mouse 
            uniparental fetuses. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 12474-12478, 2002. |   
          | 10) | Shimoda, 
            M., Morita, S., Obata, Y., Sotomaru, Y., Kono, T. and Hatada, I. Imprinting 
            of a small nucleolar RNA gene on mouse chromosome 12. Genomics 79, 
            483-486, 2002. |   
          | 11) | Kono, T., 
            Sotomaru, Y. Katsuzawa, Y. and Dandolo, L. Mouse parthenogenetic embryos 
            with mono-allelic H19 expression can develop to day 17.5 of gestation. 
            Dev. Biol. 243, 294-300, 2002. |   
          | 12) | Obata, Y. 
            and Kono, T. Maternal primary imprinting is established at a specific 
            time for each individual gene throughout oocyte growth. J. Biol. Chem. 
            277, 5285-5289, 2002. |   
          | 13) | Mizuno, Y., 
            Sotomaru, Y., Katsuzawa, Y., Kono, T., Meguro, M., Oshimura, M., Kawai, 
            J., Tomaru, Y., Kiyozawa, H., Nikaido, I., Amanuma, H., Hayashizaki, 
            Y. and Okazaki, Y. Asb4, Ata3 and dcn are novel imprinted genes identified 
            by high-throughput screening using RIKEN cDNA microarry. BBRC.290, 
            1499-1505, 2002. |   
          | 14) | Ono, Y., 
            Shimozawa, N., Muguruma, K., Kimoto, S., Hioki, K., Tachibana, M., 
            Shinkai, Y., Ito, M. and Kono, T. Production of cloned mice from embryonic 
            stem cells arrested at metaphase. Reproduction 122, 731-736, 2001. |   
          | 15) | Hatada, I., 
            Morita, S., Obata, Y., Sotomaru, Y., Shimoda, M. and Kono, T. Identification 
            of a new imprinted gene, rian, on mouse chromosome 12 by fluorescent 
            differential display screening. J. Biochem. 130, 187-190, 2001. |   
          | 16) | Sotomaru, 
            Y., Kawase, Y., Obata, Y., Hatada, I. and Kono, T. Disruption of imprinted 
            expression of U2afbp-rs/U2af1-rs1 gene in mouse parthenogenetic fetuses. 
            J. Biol. Chem. 276, 26694-26698, 2001. |   
          | 17) | Ono, Y., 
            Shimozawa, N., Ito, M. and Kono, T. Cloned mice from fetal fibroblast 
            cells arrested at metaphase by a serial nuclear transfer. Biol. Reprod. 
            64, 44-50, 2001. |   
          | 18) | Ono, Y., 
            Shimozawa, N., Muguruma, K., Kimoto, S., Hioki, K., Tachibana, M., 
            Shinkai, Y., Ito, M. and Kono, T. Production of cloned mice from embryonic 
            stem cells arrested at metaphase. Reproduction 122, 731-736, 2001. |   
          | 19) | Hatada, I., 
            Morita, S., Obata, Y., Sotomaru, Y., Shimoda, M. and Kono, T. Identification 
            of a new imprinted gene, rian, on mouse chromosome 12 by fluorescent 
            differential display screening. J. Biochem. 130, 187-190, 2001. |   
          | 20) | Sotomaru, 
            Y., Kawase, Y., Obata, Y., Hatada, I. and Kono, T. Disruption of imprinted 
            expression of U2afbp-rs/U2af1-rs1 gene in mouse parthenogenetic fetuses. 
            J. Biol. Chem. 276, 26694-26698, 2001. |   
          | 21) | Ono, Y., 
            Shimozawa, N., Ito, M. and Kono, T. Cloned mice from fetal fibroblast 
            cells arrested at metaphase by a serial nuclear transfer. Biol. Reprod. 
            64, 44-50, 2001. |   
          | 22) | Bao, S., 
            Obata, Y., Carroll, J., Kono, T. Epigenetic modifications necessary 
            for normal development are established during oocyte growth in mice. 
            Biol. Reprod. 62, 616-621, 2000. |   
          | 23) | Obata, Y. 
            Ono, Y., Akuzawa, H., Kwon, O.Y., Yoshizawa, M., Kono, T. Post-implantation 
            developmental of mouse androgenetic embryos produced by in-vitro fertilization 
            of enucleated oocytes. Human Reprod. 15, 874-880, 2000. |   
          | 24) | Tada, T., 
            Obata, Y., Tada, M., Goto, Y., Nakatsuji, N., Tan, S. S., Kono, T., 
            Takagi, N. Imprint switching for non-random X-chromosome inactivation 
            during mouse oocyte growth. Development 127, 3101-3105, 2000. |   
          | 25) | Ueda, T., 
            Abe, K.,Miura, A., Yuzuriha, M., Zubair, M., Noguchi, M., Niwa, K., 
            Kawase, Y., Kono, T., Matsuda, Y., Fujimoto, H., Shibata, H., Hayashizaki, 
            Y., Sasaki, H. The paternal methylation imprint of the H19 locus is 
            acquired in the gonocyte stage during fetal testis development. Genes 
            to Cells 5, 649-659, 2000. |   
          | 26) | Kono, T. 
            Influence of epigenetic changes during oocyte growth on nuclear reprogramming 
            after nuclear transfer. Reprod. Fertil. Dev. 10, 593-598, 1998. |   
          | 27) | Obata, Y., 
            Koneko-Ishino, T., Koide, T., Takai, Y., Ueda, T., Domeki, I., Shiroishi, 
            T., Ishino, F., Kono, T. Disruption of primary imprinting during oocyte 
            growth leads to the modified expression of imprinted genes during 
            embryogenesis. Development 125, 1553-1560, 1998. |   
          | 28) | Kono, T. 
            Nuclear transfer and reprogramming. Reviews of Reproduction 2, 74-80, 
            1997. |   
          | 29) | Kwon, O.Y. 
            and Kono, T. Production of identical sextuplet mice by transferring 
            metaphase nuclei from four-cell embryos. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 
            93, 13010-1301, 1996. |   
          | 30) | Kono, T., 
            Obata, Y., Yoshimizu, T., Nakahara, T. and Carroll, J. Epigenetic 
            modifications during oocyte growth correlates with extended parthenogenetic 
            development in the mouse. Nature Genetics 13, 91-94, 1996. |   
          | 31) | Kono, T., 
            Jones, K., Bos-Mikich, A., Whittingham, D. and Carroll, J. A cell 
            cycle associated change in Ca2+ releasing activity leads to the generation 
            of Ca2+ transients in mouse embryos during the first mitotic division. 
            J. Cell Biol. 132, 1-9, 1996. |   
          | 32) | K, Jones., 
            J, Carroll., J, Merriman., D, Whitingham., Kono, T. Repetitive sperm-induced 
            Ca2+ transients in mouse oocytes are cell cycle dependent. Development 
            121, 3259-3266, 1995. |   
          | 33) | Kono, T., 
            Carroll, J., Swann, K., Whittingham, G. Nuclei from fertilized mouse 
            embryos have calcium-releasing activity. Development 121, 1123-1128, 
            1995. |  |  |