眼の進化と生物多様性を研究しています。
The eye is one of the most elaborate organs in animals and the study of its evolution is of particular interest. It has been difficult to understand how this complex organ arose. Molluscs provide a good example of the application of evolutionary genomics, as all eye types have evolved in one lineage.
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There are several types of eyes in morphology such as camera eye, compound eye, mirror eye, and single lens eye, and all the eye types have been evolved from the same origin, the prototype eye. Even though there are conserved genes and networks in the eye evolution, little is known about what kinds of genetic basis have been contributed to the eye diversification. It is essential for discovering genes for the morphological diversification to develop a platform of genomic and transcriptomic comparison among species. We, therefore, developed microarray that cover the genes related to development, function, and structure of molluscan eye, as an example, for the evolutionary genomic studies.
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動物の眼は、単眼、複眼、カメラ眼など複雑な形態が同一起源から発達し、動物の進化そのものに大きく貢献してきたが、その形態多様化のメカニズムは知られていない。大量の遺伝子発現情報を種間で直接比較する方法を考案し、動物の眼の形態多様化メカニズムを研究する。一つの系統の中で多様な眼の形態をもっている軟体動物を材料に眼の多様化メカニズムを研究する。
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Atsushi OGURA (小倉淳): Assistant Professor 特任助教
Masa-aki YOSHIDA (吉田真明): Postdoc 特任リサーチフェロー
Satsuki TAKAGI (高木さつき): Technician 特任アソシエイトフェロー
Mengjie LIN (林梦婕): Under-graduate student 学生
Chika SATOH (佐藤智佳) → 京都大学
Yukiko ISHIKURA (石藏友紀子) → 京都大学