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Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室
@kurakulabmsm.bsky.social
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
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
August 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Confirmed the ties between consortia @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and #Squalomix by visiting at the ERGA booth with @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social at #ESEB2025
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
July 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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。
June 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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...
April 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
One week to go!
#PacBioPrism
#Squalomix
April 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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
March 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Eggcase of the zebra shark (aka leopard shark), Stegostoma tigrinum.
February 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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
February 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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.
January 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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/...
December 5, 2024 at 2:08 PM
We are based at National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan, close to Suruga Bay >2500m deep & Mt. Fuji >3700m high.

#Squalomix #MedakaBase
December 3, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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...
November 30, 2024 at 4:50 AM
The unforgettable from #MBSJ2024
November 28, 2024 at 2:42 PM