Taro Nojiri, Ph.D.
@biosonar.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist / Ph.D. (Agriculture) / JSPS-PD / Evo-Devo / Juntendo Univ.
Postdoc studying the evolution of auditory system in amniotes, especially echolocation of bats🦇 Posts will be in 🇯🇵🇺🇸
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Taro-Nojiri
Postdoc studying the evolution of auditory system in amniotes, especially echolocation of bats🦇 Posts will be in 🇯🇵🇺🇸
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Taro-Nojiri
A milestone for a great zoologist...
The number of citations increased by approximately 50 from last year
The number of citations increased by approximately 50 from last year
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A milestone for a great zoologist...
The number of citations increased by approximately 50 from last year
The number of citations increased by approximately 50 from last year
Our new paper is out in Journal of Anatomy.
We compared the embryonic development of the musculoskeletal and nervous system around the syrinx and elucidated the homology of the syringeal muscles among three birds: chicks, cockatiels, and zebra finches.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We compared the embryonic development of the musculoskeletal and nervous system around the syrinx and elucidated the homology of the syringeal muscles among three birds: chicks, cockatiels, and zebra finches.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A comparative developmental study of the avian syrinx: Insights into the homology of the sound‐producing muscles in birds
Birds produce a wide variety of sound signals with a unique organ, syrinx. The avian syrinx shows diverse musculature around the tracheobronchial region among song birds, parrots, and others. Learn h...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Our new paper is out in Journal of Anatomy.
We compared the embryonic development of the musculoskeletal and nervous system around the syrinx and elucidated the homology of the syringeal muscles among three birds: chicks, cockatiels, and zebra finches.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We compared the embryonic development of the musculoskeletal and nervous system around the syrinx and elucidated the homology of the syringeal muscles among three birds: chicks, cockatiels, and zebra finches.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Checking fertilized croc eggs
December 19, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Checking fertilized croc eggs
Our Aodaisho embryo was chosen as the cover image of The Anatomical Record.
See also our latest snake EvoDevo paper: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
See also our latest snake EvoDevo paper: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Embryonic development and cranial ossification of the Japanese Aodaishō, Elaphe climacophora (Serpentes: Colubridae): with special reference to the prootic bone and auditory evolution in snakes
Snakes show remarkably deviated “body plan” from other squamate reptiles. In addition to limb loss, they have accomplished enormous anatomical specialization of the skull associated with the pit orga...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Our Aodaisho embryo was chosen as the cover image of The Anatomical Record.
See also our latest snake EvoDevo paper: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
See also our latest snake EvoDevo paper: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Taro Nojiri, Ph.D.
Thanks for the highlight! This was a huge amount of virtual dissection and segmentation work by Nicolas Brualla (not yet on bsky I think), who recently defended his PhD thesis based on this work.
Here, @biosonar.bsky.social & @mdoube.bsky.social & co compared the 3D laryngeal morphology of 23 bat species from 11 families, finding muscle hypertrophy is NOT characteristic of all bats but represents differential development! (2/3)
December 14, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Thanks for the highlight! This was a huge amount of virtual dissection and segmentation work by Nicolas Brualla (not yet on bsky I think), who recently defended his PhD thesis based on this work.
Reposted by Taro Nojiri, Ph.D.
Here, @biosonar.bsky.social & @mdoube.bsky.social & co compared the 3D laryngeal morphology of 23 bat species from 11 families, finding muscle hypertrophy is NOT characteristic of all bats but represents differential development! (2/3)
December 14, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Here, @biosonar.bsky.social & @mdoube.bsky.social & co compared the 3D laryngeal morphology of 23 bat species from 11 families, finding muscle hypertrophy is NOT characteristic of all bats but represents differential development! (2/3)
Reposted by Taro Nojiri, Ph.D.
Calling vertebrate morphologists around the globe!
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Symposium proposal guidelines | ISVM
isvm-icvm.org
November 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Calling vertebrate morphologists around the globe!
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Does anyone here know biology forum that allows us to feel free to ask some technical questions?
November 28, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Does anyone here know biology forum that allows us to feel free to ask some technical questions?
［Upcoming Event]
I am invited to the session on "Bioacoustics of bats" in The Japan Society for Bioacoustics 2024 (will be held in The Univ.
of Tokyo). I'll be talking about our recent project "EvoDevo×Bioacoustics" (Nojiri et al. 2024).
See the link below for details.
bacoust.org?p=1898&lang=en
I am invited to the session on "Bioacoustics of bats" in The Japan Society for Bioacoustics 2024 (will be held in The Univ.
of Tokyo). I'll be talking about our recent project "EvoDevo×Bioacoustics" (Nojiri et al. 2024).
See the link below for details.
bacoust.org?p=1898&lang=en
A public symposium "Bioacoustics of bats"
A public symposium titled "Bioacoustics of bats" will be held on December 2, 2024 during the 11th Annual Meeting of the Bioacoustic Society of Japan. Attendance will be available at the venue or onlin...
bacoust.org
November 27, 2024 at 5:01 AM
［Upcoming Event]
I am invited to the session on "Bioacoustics of bats" in The Japan Society for Bioacoustics 2024 (will be held in The Univ.
of Tokyo). I'll be talking about our recent project "EvoDevo×Bioacoustics" (Nojiri et al. 2024).
See the link below for details.
bacoust.org?p=1898&lang=en
I am invited to the session on "Bioacoustics of bats" in The Japan Society for Bioacoustics 2024 (will be held in The Univ.
of Tokyo). I'll be talking about our recent project "EvoDevo×Bioacoustics" (Nojiri et al. 2024).
See the link below for details.
bacoust.org?p=1898&lang=en
爬虫類で一番種数が多いはずのトカゲ類 (Lacertilia)の胚が一番入手が難しい気がする
November 18, 2024 at 9:12 AM
爬虫類で一番種数が多いはずのトカゲ類 (Lacertilia)の胚が一番入手が難しい気がする
I forgot to announce a new paper on snake hearing evolution🐍
We reported heterochronic shift of the prootic bone within snakes. This suggests ossification timing of the bony capsule reflects dominate sensory organ (i.e. hearing or pit organ).
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We reported heterochronic shift of the prootic bone within snakes. This suggests ossification timing of the bony capsule reflects dominate sensory organ (i.e. hearing or pit organ).
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Embryonic development and cranial ossification of the Japanese Aodaishō, Elaphe climacophora (Serpentes: Colubridae): with special reference to the prootic bone and auditory evolution in snakes
Snakes show remarkably deviated “body plan” from other squamate reptiles. In addition to limb loss, they have accomplished enormous anatomical specialization of the skull associated with the pit orga....
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:40 AM
I forgot to announce a new paper on snake hearing evolution🐍
We reported heterochronic shift of the prootic bone within snakes. This suggests ossification timing of the bony capsule reflects dominate sensory organ (i.e. hearing or pit organ).
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We reported heterochronic shift of the prootic bone within snakes. This suggests ossification timing of the bony capsule reflects dominate sensory organ (i.e. hearing or pit organ).
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
My research articles have recently been cited over 100 times.
I'll continue to publish more and more papers on evolutionary biology of hearing & vocalization system in animals.
I'll continue to publish more and more papers on evolutionary biology of hearing & vocalization system in animals.
October 19, 2024 at 11:12 PM
My research articles have recently been cited over 100 times.
I'll continue to publish more and more papers on evolutionary biology of hearing & vocalization system in animals.
I'll continue to publish more and more papers on evolutionary biology of hearing & vocalization system in animals.
Reposted by Taro Nojiri, Ph.D.
Great News!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
April 26, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Great News!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
Great News!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
April 26, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Great News!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!
I was "inhaling" cats this holiday. This usually wipes all anxious matters out (And I am usually scolded by them with cute paws).
April 13, 2024 at 1:41 PM
I was "inhaling" cats this holiday. This usually wipes all anxious matters out (And I am usually scolded by them with cute paws).
In these days, I am again reminded that embryologists and functional morphologists have substantially different minds and viewpoints to confer an explanation of "how morphotraits evolutionarily change" to us.
April 6, 2024 at 6:29 AM
In these days, I am again reminded that embryologists and functional morphologists have substantially different minds and viewpoints to confer an explanation of "how morphotraits evolutionarily change" to us.
I could see two-toed sloth by my own eyes for the first time.
You'll see them at Kariyushi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Here is undoubtedly a rare place that has all representative species of xenarthrans (sloths, anteaters, and armadillos)!!
You'll see them at Kariyushi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Here is undoubtedly a rare place that has all representative species of xenarthrans (sloths, anteaters, and armadillos)!!
March 26, 2024 at 2:23 AM
I could see two-toed sloth by my own eyes for the first time.
You'll see them at Kariyushi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Here is undoubtedly a rare place that has all representative species of xenarthrans (sloths, anteaters, and armadillos)!!
You'll see them at Kariyushi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Here is undoubtedly a rare place that has all representative species of xenarthrans (sloths, anteaters, and armadillos)!!
My presentation at this conference is over. Among medical scientists, I provided evolutionary morphology and development of sound-related organs in birds 🐧 and bats 🦇.
I could obtain more constructive comments (exclusively on discrepancy between humans and others) than I expected.
I could obtain more constructive comments (exclusively on discrepancy between humans and others) than I expected.
March 23, 2024 at 12:06 AM
My presentation at this conference is over. Among medical scientists, I provided evolutionary morphology and development of sound-related organs in birds 🐧 and bats 🦇.
I could obtain more constructive comments (exclusively on discrepancy between humans and others) than I expected.
I could obtain more constructive comments (exclusively on discrepancy between humans and others) than I expected.
I'm staying in Okinawa (southern island in Japan) for annual conference of Anatomical Society Japan.
March 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM
I'm staying in Okinawa (southern island in Japan) for annual conference of Anatomical Society Japan.
I shall position the next year as a term to practice developmental genetic approach. To this end, all upcoming papers that I mainly lead will incorporate gene expression data.
March 19, 2024 at 8:11 AM
I shall position the next year as a term to practice developmental genetic approach. To this end, all upcoming papers that I mainly lead will incorporate gene expression data.
Patience is a weapon, but not a virtue. It doesn't suit everyone.
March 16, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Patience is a weapon, but not a virtue. It doesn't suit everyone.
Huhhh I have finally done manuscript correction (it took for three days in total). I try to submit this by the end of this month.
Cuz my background is originally in mammalogy, all the comments from the herpetologist (my colleague) are very informative to me.
Cuz my background is originally in mammalogy, all the comments from the herpetologist (my colleague) are very informative to me.
March 12, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Huhhh I have finally done manuscript correction (it took for three days in total). I try to submit this by the end of this month.
Cuz my background is originally in mammalogy, all the comments from the herpetologist (my colleague) are very informative to me.
Cuz my background is originally in mammalogy, all the comments from the herpetologist (my colleague) are very informative to me.
I have started to revise a pending paper (but it will take so long time due to many points to be corrected by my collaborator)
March 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM
I have started to revise a pending paper (but it will take so long time due to many points to be corrected by my collaborator)
Unlike in heterochrony, highly accurate methodology of heterotopy analysis has not been developed yet, I guess.
March 4, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Unlike in heterochrony, highly accurate methodology of heterotopy analysis has not been developed yet, I guess.
Finally submitted a new article.
I still have ms to be submitted to the other article, so will be busy for a while.
I still have ms to be submitted to the other article, so will be busy for a while.
February 28, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Finally submitted a new article.
I still have ms to be submitted to the other article, so will be busy for a while.
I still have ms to be submitted to the other article, so will be busy for a while.