Taizo Kawano

Proprioceptive Coupling within Motor Neurons Drives C. elegans Forward Locomotion

Quan Wen, Michelle D. Po, Elizabeth Hulme et al. · Neuron · 2012 · 287 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

An Imbalancing Act: Gap Junctions Reduce the Backward Motor Circuit Activity to Bias C. elegans for Forward Locomotion

Taizo Kawano, Michelle D. Po, Shangbang Gao et al. · Neuron · 2011 · 286 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Neuroscience +17

ALS mutations in FUS cause neuronal dysfunction and death in Caenorhabditis elegans by a dominant gain-of-function mechanism

Tetsuro Murakami, Seung‐Pil Yang, Lin Xie et al. · Human Molecular Genetics · 2011 · 123 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Neuroscience +17

Excitatory motor neurons are local oscillators for backward locomotion

Shangbang Gao, Sihui Asuka Guan, Anthony D. Fouad et al. · eLife · 2017 · 107 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Identification of Genes Involved in Synaptogenesis Using a Fluorescent Active Zone Marker in<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>

Edward T.H. Yeh, Taizo Kawano, Robby M. Weimer et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2005 · 99 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17