Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室
Molecular Life History Lab led by Shigehiro Kuraku at National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan. Home of Squalomix & MedakaBase フィールド&分子生物学実験寄り動物ゲノム情報学&分子進化学研究とリテラシー普及@遺伝研
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- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室Lagman, Bergqvist & Kuraku analysed opsin gene evolution in jawless vertebrates, confirming tandem duplications of visual opsins before the vertebrate radiation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf231 #evobio #molbio #opsins
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- Due to a power outage caused by a lightning strike on Sep 5th, the web servers operated by us, incl. #aLeaves (but excl. #gVolante), are currently down. More information could be posted at the top of this 'annex' page (which is still alive) if the down time lasts long. github.com/Squalomix/me...
- Travelling back from Intl Basking Shark Conf in Galway, Ireland. It's so important for those studying the species that travels across oceans to connect globally. Huge thanks to everyone who worked hard to make the conf happen. Love to visit 🇮🇪 again!! #Squalomix
- We are so thrilled to be starting our international conference on basking sharks, packed with so many fintastic talks! But we want to a moment to thank our co-hosts, @npwsireland.bsky.social and the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, as well as our sponsors... 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室Today we’re introducing a major update to the family seed alignments, protein features, and relationship data visualizations on the Dfam website. In addition, we are adding two new datasets: ULTRA reported tandem repeats, and self-alignments.
- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室「野生生物を虐げる不法ペット貿易」 自然界から生物が姿を消しているのは，生息地の喪失よりも野生動物のペット取引によるところが大きいかもしれない。 別冊日経サイエンス274『鳥の惑星 飛翔, 渡り, さえずりを科学する』 www.nikkei-science.com/sci_book/bes...
- Confirmed the ties between consortia @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and #Squalomix by visiting at the ERGA booth with @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social at #ESEB2025
- New chapter of sex determination, with sharks and rays! Our study, utilizing embryonic samples from cooperative aquariums, revealed the ancient sex chromosome origin and unique sex determination potentials. Published today in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #Squalomix
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- Very curious to follow up how the taxa of our interests, particularly Chondrichthyes 🦈, of course, are catalogued under this 'Tree of Sex Consortium' relaunched.
- Ready for Satellite Symposium at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, our long-term scientific partner, after fruitful days at #ipfc12 in Taipei 🇹🇼. 先週台北で開かれたアジア・パシフィック魚類会議のサテライト研究会が沖縄美ら海水族館で本日開催されます。当研究室が進めてきた、深海適応の分子メカニズムを含むサメ・エイ類のゲノム進化学研究についてその場で紹介します。 ご興味おありでしたら、 #Squalomix で検索ください。
- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室#ERGAReads | Can #genomic analysis estimate past population size? ⌛️📉 Sequentially Markovian coalescent #SMC methods can lead to misleading estimates. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is needed to interpret them accurately. 🧬 🔗 Read more: www.cell.com/trends/genet... @qmul.ac.uk
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- New preprint from #Squalomix www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Towards bona fide 'whole-genome' analysis encompassing rDNA, tRNA, histones, centromere, elusive HoxC , ... , while featuring genome size change like shown here for the V2R clusters. @ebpgenome.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室We have extended our abstract submission to June 1st! Get conference details here: www.baskingshark.ie/conference2025 and submit your abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室RepeatMasker 4.1.9 released. This release includes fixes for ProcessRepeats (speed issues, and divide-by-zero), a fix for clade-level pHMM (nhmmer) searches, and some minor utility/documentation updates. See the www.repeatmasker.org for more release details.
- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室“Intragenomic mutational heterogeneity: structural and functional insights from gene evolution” by Yuichiro Hara & Shigehiro Kuraku (@kurakulabmsm.bsky.social) FREE access till June 24th at this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2K3cQbJF...
- Our research on sharks and rays conducted in National Institute of Genetics, Japan, at the foot of Mt Fuji has just been introduced at #PacBioPRISM. #Squalomix Lab HP www.nig.ac.jp/nig/research...
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- Having a glimpse of the Vietnam's Red List, with the same mind about biodiversity and potentials of genomics as we tackle with the Japanese counterpart. vast.gov.vn/web/vietnam-... #PacBioPRISM
- One week to go! #PacBioPrism #Squalomix
- Our research on sharks🦈 & rays will be introduced at #PacBioPrism in Da Nan, Vietnam🇻🇳, on April 15 by Shigehiro Kuraku. #Squalomix
- 昨日の一般公開、当研究室は、DNA情報に基づいて脊椎動物の進化を辿る研究の意義や手法、とくにサメやエイの貴重な試料の確保について紹介しました。たくさんの方々に来場いただき、さまざまな刺激をいただきました。 www.sut-tv.com/news/single/... #遺伝研一般公開 #Squalomix
- Our research on sharks🦈 & rays will be introduced at #PacBioPrism in Da Nan, Vietnam🇻🇳, on April 15 by Shigehiro Kuraku. #Squalomix
- Presenting our activity in June at Joint Conf. of Asian Society of Ichthyologists (ASI) Annual Meeting & Indo-Pacific Fish Conf. (IPFC) in Taipei 🇹🇼 Title 'Unraveling shark and ray evolution through genomic exploration' by Shigehiro Kuraku @sighex #IPFC12 #IPFC2025 #ASI2025
- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室RepeatMasker 4.1.8 released. A major update to ProcessRepeats has significantly reduced RepeatMasker's memory requirements. Additionally, RepeatMasker now supports the new FamDB 2.0.0 format introduced in Dfam 3.9. See the www.repeatmasker.org for more release details.
- Reposted by Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室Figures from our review paper - Genomic reconsideration of fish non-monophyly: why cannot we simply call them all ‘fish’? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Eggcase of the zebra shark (aka leopard shark), Stegostoma tigrinum.
- Ensembl? Or, NCBI? Both at MedakaBase!! medakabase.nbrp.jp MedakaBase promotes medaka fish biology, in the framework of versatile resource provision enabled by National Bioresource Project (NBRP) of Japan Find more at x.com/NbrpMedakaOmix
- いつも見えるわけではないのです。 では、単に運なのかというと、・・・。 どうなのでしょうか？ news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/7a4...
- Inspiring talks from PacBio session at #PAG32 in January 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Fz... @pacbio.bsky.social
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- 生物学的発見を目指した独自研究だけではなく、生物多様性の成立ちのより深い理解を目指して、解析ノウハウの普及や有用リソースのシームレスな共有のための活動を広く行っています。 2025年春までのおもな発信予定です。 www.treethinkers.info/post/2025%E5...
- Possibly useful brochure in your research on medaka. We, Omics Team in National Bioresource Project of Japan (aka. Kuraku Lab at NIG), runs a variety of molecular data analysis and release covering vertebrate diversity, incl. medaka, of course.
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- 日本の絶滅危惧種についてのゲノム情報の集積状況をカタログ化 ーいま手を打つべきなのはどの種か？ www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/2024/...
- Mutation behind night blindness in humans helps whale sharks see in the dark - NEWS in Science Journal based on our original study published in PNAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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- We are based at National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan, close to Suruga Bay >2500m deep & Mt. Fuji >3700m high. #Squalomix #MedakaBase
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