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2024.Nov.20[ Open Symposium ] On Dec.9th, Assoc. Prof. Michiyo Kinoshita and Prof. Mariko Hasegawa, former SOKENDAI president will give lectures at NIBB symposium (in Japanese) blank
2024.Nov.7[ Funded ] Asst. Prof. T. Watanabe has obtained from by Ohsumi Frontier Science Foundation (Japanese site)blank
2024.Oct.22[ Essay ] Prof. Yuuki Watanabe's essay on his field research in the North pole published in the monthly travel magazine "Hitotoki" November issue (WEDGE) (in Japanese) blank
2024.Oct.16[ Awarded ] Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the prize "Anthropological Science Acievement Award for Young Investigators"!blank
2024.Sep.27[ Open Campus ] Open Campus will be held on November 16, 2024 (in Japanese).blank
2024.Sep.24[ Awarded ] Ryuichiro ISSIKI in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology.blank
2024.Sep.24[ Awarded ] Shun MINAMI in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Mathematical Biology.blank
2024.Sep.10[ Awarded ] Prof. Y. Satta received the GSJ Kihara Award 2024 from the Genetics Society of Japan!blank
2024.Aug.29[ Lectures ] Academic Lectures will be held on Nov. 3rd. (Culture Day) (in Japanese)blank
2024.Aug.23[ Recruitment ] Open positions for RCIES Special Researcher (Deadline: 2024.11.25. 12:00 p.m.JST)blank
2024.Aug.10[ Textbook ] Prof. Irie's discovery featured in High School Biology Textbookblank
2024.Aug.8[ Video streaming ] Prof. Y. Watanabe talks about his resarch on youtube. blank
2024.Jul.29[ Booklet ] Center and Course booklet is now availableblank
2024.May.21[ Arrival ] New Research Fellow has joined RCIES blank
2024.Apr.9[ Awarded ] Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology! (in Japanese)blank

Press Releases

  • Civet cat

    Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids
    2024.Nov.11


  • Atractylodes

    Novel B chromosemes with unknown function are found in the gynodioecious medicinal plant, Atractylodes lancea
    2024.Sep.13


  • Urban Squirrel

    Urbanisation has impacted the population genetic structure of the Eurasian red squirrel in Japan within a short period of 30 years
    2024.Sep.13


  • COVIVIS_Start

    Analysis application tool that predicts the number of infected people in the catchment area on the virus concentration data in sewage
    - “COVIVIS” user acceptance begins -
    2024.Jun.21


  • Invasive_fish_vs_cichlids

    The newfound evidence of extinction risk — the invasive Nile perch impacted the genomic structure of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes
    2024.Jun.17


  • Multi-cusped postcanine teeth in phocid seals

    Uncovering the reception and processing mechanisms of cockroach sex pheromones and the regulation mechanisms of their courtship behavior
    2024.May.15


  • Multi-cusped postcanine teeth in phocid seals

    Palaeoproteomics of dental calculus reveals pathogenic factors of periodontal diseases in the past
    2024.May.15


  • Multi-cusped postcanine teeth in phocid seals

    Multi-cusped postcanine teeth are associated with zooplankton feeding in phocid seals
    2024.Mar.13


  • Evolution of parental care in haploid–diploid plants

    Evolution of parental care in haploid–diploid plants
    2024.Mar.11


  • Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs

    Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs
    2024.Mar.1



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Events

　
2024.Nov.20   On Dec.9th, Assoc. Prof. Michiyo Kinoshita and Prof. Mariko Hasegawa, former president of SOKENDAI, will give lectures at NIBB symposium (in Japanese) blank
2024.Sep.27   Open Campus will be held on November 16, 2024 (in Japanese). Registration is required. blank
2024.Aug.29   Nov. 3rd (Sun, Culture Day) Academic lectures by Dr. Takumi Tsutaya & Dr. Hiroki Higashiyama.blank
2024.Aug.7   Aug.18 (Sun) Prof. Y. Watanabe will give a seminar titled, "Lives of penguins and sharks revealed by modern science" at Toyota Hands-On Museum, Aichi (in Japanese).blank
2024.Jul.25   "youtube" Prof. Y. Watanabe appears on youtube, Pt.2. "Cutting-edge research on marine animals! Why do we study evolution?" (in Japanese, subtitles available)blank
2024.Jul.5   "youtube" Prof. Y. Watanabe appears on youtube, Pt.1. "Global warming in reality! What is polar research?" (in Japanese, subtitles available)blank
2024.Jul.24   Aug 21st(Wed) - Aug 24th (Sat): "SESJ2024" The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Evolutionary Studies, Japan will be held at Tokai University Shonan Campus (Aug 21st to 23rd) and Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (Aug 24th). blank
2024.Jul.23   Sep 8th (Sun) - Sep 10th (Tue): The 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology (Japanese) will be held at Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo. blank
2024.Apr.2   May 11th (Sat) Lectures by Drs. Takayuki Watanabe & Yohey Teraiblank
2024.Feb.24   Lecture Video now available; "What do butterflies "see"?" by Prof. Kentaro Arikawa in "JT Biohistory Research Hall event-Lecture” on Feb 17th, 2024 (in Japanese). blank
2024.Jan.17   Dr. Yasu Furukawa, will appear on TV show, "The Profiler" and give a talk about Ms. Umeko Tsuda, who was one of the pioneers of Japanese women's education and founded Tsuda University. She will become the face of the new ¥5000 bill this July. (Jan. 25, NHK BS 21:00-22:00, in Japanese) blank
2024.Jan.11   Prof. Kentaro Arikawa, will give a lecture on "What do butterflies "see"?" in "JT Biohistory Research Hall event-Lecture” on Feb 17th, 2024 (in Japanese).
!! This lecture will be streamed on Youtube!! blank
2024.Jan.11   Prof. Kentaro Arikawa, will give a lecture on "Color world that butterflies see" in the 363rd Senri Life Scinece Forum, on Jan. 11th, 2024 (Osaka, Senri Life Science Foundation, in Japanese).blank
!! This lecture will be streamed on-demand (registration required)!! blank
2023.Jan.9   Report of RCIES x MMBS (Univ. of Tokyo, Misaki Marine Biology Station), the 2nd Student exchange meeting on Dec. 13, 2023 blank
2023.Dec.14   Prof. Yohey Terai, will give a lecture on "The origin of the dog in the Japanese archipelago and their transition." in "The forefront of genomic veterinary researches for companion animals”, the 4th Companion Animal Research meeting, on Jan. 20th - 21st, 2024. (This symposium will be in Japanese) blank
 
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Recent Publications

2024.Nov.11   Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids. Nakabayashi, Tsutaya Abdul H Ahmad, Sasaki, Ogawa, Ishikawa, Ohkouchi. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (2024) 11:53
DOI:10.1186/s40645-024-00655-6blank
2024.Oct.16   Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Tsutaya Doi, Katagiri, Sawafuji, Yoneda. Anthropological Science (2024)
DOI:10.1537/ase.230718blank
2024.Sep.11   B chromosome and its non-Mendelian inheritance in Atractylodes lancea Hara, Kikuchi, Inoue, Tsusaka, Sakurai, Tanabe, Shirasawa, Isobe. PROS ONE (2024)
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0308881blank
2024.Aug.13   Urbanisation has impacted the population genetic structure of the Eurasian red squirrel in Japan within a short period of 30 years. Takahata, Uchida, Kutsukake, Shimamoto, Asari, Terai. Conservation Genetics (2024)
DOI:10.1007/s10592-024-01631-9blank
2024.Aug.1   Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy. Onishi. J Gen Philos Sci (2024)
DOI:10.1007/s10838-023-09667-0blank
2024.Aug.3   East and Southeast Asian hominin dispersal and evolution: A review. Sawafuji, Tsutaya, Takahata, Pedersen, Ishida. Quaternary Science Reviews (2024) 333:1 June 2024, 108669
DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108669blank
2024.Jun.17   Severe Bottleneck Impacted the Genomic Structure of Egg-Eating Cichlids in Lake Victoria. Imamoto, Nakamura H, Aibara, Hatashima, Kimirei, Kashindye, Itoh, Nikaido. Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024) 41(6):June 24, msae093
DOI:10.1093/molbev/msae093blank
2024.May.29   Who is a Leader in the Leading Eight? Indirect Reciprocity under Private Assessment. Fujimoto, Ohtsuki. PRX Life (2024) 2, 023009
DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162blank
2024.May.29   Different Host–Endogenous Retrovirus Relationships between Mammals and Birds Reflected in Genome-Wide Evolutionary Interaction Patterns. Zheng, Gojobori, Suh, Satta. Genome Biology and Evolution (2024) 16(4):April 2024, evae065
DOI:10.1093/gbe/evae065blank
2024.May.15   Interactive parallel sex pheromone circuits that promote and suppress courtship behaviors in the cockroach. Tateishi, Watanabe T, Domae, Ugagin, Nishino, Nakagawa, Mizunami, Watanabe. PNAS nexus (2024) 3(4):April2024, pgae162
DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162blank
2024.May.15   Palaeoproteomic investigation of an ancient human skeleton with abnormal deposition of dental calculus. Uchida-Fukuhara, Shimamura, Sawafuji, Nishiuchi, Yoneda, Ishida, Matsumura, Tsutaya. Scientific Reports (2024) 14:Article:5938
DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-55779-yblank
2024.Feb.22   Multi-cusped postcanine teeth are associated with zooplankton feeding in phocid seals. Ishihara, Miyazaki, Yurkowski, Watanabe YY. Marine Ecology Progress Series (2024) v729:233-245
DOI:10.3354/meps14509blank
2024.Feb.14   Evolution of parental care in haploid–diploid plants. Bessho, Sasaki. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 15:1680
DOI:10.1098/rspb.2023.2351blank
2024.Feb.23   Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs. Gojobori, Arakawa, Xiaokaiti, Matsumoto, Matsumura, Hongo, Ishiguro, Terai. Nature Communications (2024) 15:1680
DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-46124-y blank
2024.Feb.13   Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat. Yamakawa, Miura, Kutsukake.　Animal Behaviour (2024)
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.01.005 blank
2023.Dec.15   Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Tsutaya, Doi, Katagiri, Sawafuji, Yoneda. Anthropological Science (2024) 132(1):27-38
DOI: 10.1537/ase.230718 blank
2023.Oct.26   The adaptation front equation explains innovation-driven taxonomic turnovers and living fossilization. Ito, Sasaki. The American Naturalist (2023) 202(6):E163-E180
DOI: 10.1086/727046 blank
2023.Sep.5   Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important? Hase. Animal Cognition (2023) 26:1905-1913
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.001blank
2023.Aug.10 Genome sequencing reveals the genetic architecture of heterostyly and domestication history of common buckwheat. Fawcett,... Ota, et al. Nature Plants (2023) 9:1236–1251.
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01474-1 blank
2023.Jul.19 Kangaroo endogenous retrovirus (KERV) forms megasatellite DNA with a simple repetition pattern in which the provirus structure is retained. Koga, Nishihara, Tanabe, Tanaka, Kayano, Matsumoto, Endo, Srikulnath, O'Neill. Virology (2023) 586:56-66.
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.07.005 blank
2023.Jun.27 Conserved Evolution of MHC Supertypes among Japanese Frogs Suggests Selection for Bd Resistance. Lau, Iagawa, Kosch, Dharmayanthi, Berger, Skerratt, Satta. Animals (2023) 13:2121
DOI: 10.3390/ani13132121 blank
2023.Jun.23 Spatial and temporal diversity of positive selection on shared haplotypes at the PSCA locus among worldwide human populations. Iwasaki, Satta. Heredity (2023) 131:156–169
DOI: 10.1038/s41437-023-00631-8 blank
2023.Jun.22 Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants. Mizuno, Ranjeewa, Kutsukake, Padmalal. J Ethology (2023)
DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00790-5 blank
2023.Jun.3 Allometric Growth of the Enigmatic Deep-Sea Megamouth Shark Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, and Struhsaker, 1983 (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae). Yun, Watanabe YY. Fishes (2023) 8(6):300.
DOI: 10.3390/fishes8060300 blank
2023.May.9 Evolutionary stability of cooperation in indirect reciprocity under noisy and private assessment. Fujimoto, Ohtsuki. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2023) 120:e2300544120.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300544120 blank
2023.Apr.18 ‘Color’ processing in the butterfly visual system. Kinoshita, Arikawa. Trends in Neurosciences. (2023) 46:338-340.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.02.006 blank
2023.Apr.12 Thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate mirrors biogeographic differences between teleosts and elasmobranchs. Watanabe YY, Payne. Nature communications (2023) 14:2054.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37637-z blank
 
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Recruitment

  
2024.Aug.23   Open positions for RCIES Research Fellow, SOKENDAI (Deadline: 2024.11.25, 12:00 p.m.JST)blank

Awards, articles, etc.

2024.Oct.16Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the prize "Anthropological Science Acievement Award for Young Investigators"!blank
2024.Sep.24Ryuichiro ISSIKI in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology for his presentation on "A Theoretical Study on Female Preference Hypothesis in Lek Mating Systems".blank
2024.Sep.24Shun MINAMI in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Mathematical Biology for his presentation on "New Red Queen Dynamics in Fungus-Virus Interaction".blank
2024.Sep.12Prof. Yoko Satta received the Kihara Award 2024 from the Genetics Society of Japan for “Data Driven Science in Evolutionary Genetics”.blank
2024.Aug.30Articles about Prof. Hongo's research has published in Nikkei digital online (2024.8.28), and in print (2024.8.29) (in Japanese)blank. In the article, the new academic field “Integrated Evolutionary Science” by RCIES was also introduced.
2024.Aug.7Articles about Prof. Terai's research has published in Nikkei digital online (2024.3.24, in Japanese)blank, Science Japan (2024.5.23, JST, cited from Science News）blank, Nikkei Science (Special Edition, vol.269, 2024.6.29, reprinted of Nikkei Science (2024.Feb. Special Edition)), The Sankei Shimbun (2024.7.7 E-version)blank, and The Sankei Shimbun (2024.7.21, in print)
2024.Aug.7'COVIVIS' by Prof. Sasaki's research has published in Science News (2024.7.19, in print) (Jump to SOKENDAI's page)blank
2024.Apr.20Two articles about Prof. Terai’s research has published in The Science News (2024.Mar.29, Paper), JKC Gazette (2024, May). (in Japanese)blank
2024.Apr.9Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (in Japanese)blank
2024.Feb.19An article about Prof. Ohtsuki’s research has published in Diamond online (2024.Feb.16). (in Japanese)blank
2023.Dec.28An article about Prof. Terai’s research has published in Nikkei Science (2024, Feb). (in Japanese)blank
2023.Dec.20Prof. Hisashi Ohtsuki has been awarded the 20th (FY2023) JSPS Prize. (in Japanese)blank
2023.Nov.8Prof. Takayuki Watanabe has been awarded the 32nd Yoshida Encouragement Prize for the 2023 academic year.blank
2023.Sep.29The Presentation by the Research Group (including Prof. Tatsuya Ota) received Excellent Presentation Award (Presentation Number 116) blankat the 144th Lecture Meeting (Autumn Meeting of the 5th year of Reiwa) of the Japanese Society of Breeding for collaborative research. In the same event, Yasuo Yasui, Prof. at Kyoto University (Collaborative Researcher), conducted an online press conference blankregarding another collaborative research (Presentation Number 114). (in Japanese)
2023.Sep.8Prof. Tatsuya Ota's collaborative research (co-authored paper)blankwas featured in the Yomiuri Shimbun, ascii.jp, Nikkei Biotech, Asahi Shimbun 1・2・3 (English)blank, Kyoto Shimbun, Nikkei, Jiji Press News, JIJI.COM, MIT Technology Review, The Science News, JAcom, Tsukuba Science News, and Nikkan. (Links other than the link mark will jump to each Japanese media site)
2023.Sep.5Dr. Yuga Fujimoto received the 18th Japan Society for Mathematical Biology Research Encouragement Award.blank
 
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