著者
竹花 佑介 北川 忠生
出版者
一般社団法人 日本魚類学会
雑誌
魚類学雑誌 (ISSN:00215090)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.57, no.1, pp.76-79, 2010 (Released:2014-03-05)
参考文献数
18
被引用文献数
8
著者
渡辺 勝敏 高橋 洋 北村 晃寿 横山 良太 北川 忠生 武島 弘彦 佐藤 俊平 山本 祥一郎 竹花 佑介 向井 貴彦 大原 健一 井口 恵一朗
出版者
The Ichthyological Society of Japan
雑誌
魚類学雑誌 (ISSN:00215090)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.53, no.1, pp.1-38, 2006-05-25 (Released:2010-06-28)
参考文献数
247
被引用文献数
6

The biogeography of freshwater fishes in Japan was reviewed in terms of achievements and perspectives. In the last three decades, biogeographic studies have changed from earlier descriptions of the freshwater fish fauna, based on the Linnean classification system, to phylogenetic approaches using various molecular markers. Especially, the phylogeographic approach, which explores the formation of geographic distribution patterns of genealogical lineages within species, has become predominant. Analyses of genuine freshwater fishes have disclosed their speciation and dispersal patterns throughout temperate East Asia since the Neogene, along with the formation of the Japanese Archipelago. In particular, molecular clocks of mitochondrial DNA have played an important role in examinations of biogeographic relationships between the Japanese Archipelago and Chinese continent/Korean Peninsula, and vicariance by Fossa Magna in central Honshu Island. Patterns of range expansion through the sea and landlocking in coldtemperature euryhaline fishes have indicated their speciation and distribution dynamics under the fluctuating climatic conditions of the Plio-Pleistocene. Likewise, phylogeographic implications of unusual biological entities arising from interspecific hybridization or gynogenesis have been discussed. Nevertheless, despite the emphases given to some groups, the present knowledge of phylogeographic patterns of Japanese freshwater fishes is for the most part still insufficient for quantitative analyses of the overall history of the freshwater fish fauna and geographic regions of Japan. Improved research techniques and methodologies for the integration of findings from multiple taxa and/or genes are essential. Further, evolutionary formation of distributional ranges should be considered together with ecological biogeography, including the processes of local adaptation, interspecific interaction and extinction. Modern day disturbances of freshwater fish distributions, including fish transportation, are rapidly leading to artificial distribution patterns and extinctions. Exhaustive phylogeographic analyses should be necessary as a primary requirement for conserving freshwater fish biodiversity in Japan.
著者
笹土 隆雄 竹花 佑介 成瀬 清
出版者
日本サイトメトリー学会
雑誌
サイトメトリーリサーチ (ISSN:09166920)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, no.2, pp.1-7, 2014-10-25 (Released:2017-05-19)
参考文献数
28

Medaka has been developed as a model animal that can be used to apply both forward and reverse genetic approaches. Large-scale mutagenesis screening for developmental processes, full-length cDNA/Expressed sequence Tag(EST) sequencing and genome sequencing projects have made it possible to use medaka as an effective model for research studies using a forward genetic approach. Currently, it is possible to identify the causal genes in medaka mutants within one to two years. Moreover, the TILLING library and high-throughput screening of mutations by highresolution melting (HRM) facilitate the identification of mutations in a particular gene and can produce medaka with mutations in the particular gene of interest. In addition to this reverse genetics approach, genome editing with the use of engineered nucleases, such as TALEN and CRISPR/CAS9, can be applicable to medaka. Recently, knock-in expression with a GFP cassette at the de novo locus was reported in zebrafish, and this can also be applied to medaka. Therefore, most methods for forward and reverse genetic approaches are equivalent or easier with the medaka model than other animal models such as the mouse and rat.Although constant environments (fixed temperature and day/night cycle) are the general condition for animal experiments, organisms in nature live in fluctuating environments. Thus, studies on phenotype/genotype interactions in fluctuating environments represent the future for the biological and biomedical sciences. In this context, numerous features of medaka, such as their adaptability to variable temperature (4 to 40 ℃), tolerance to high-salinity environments without acclimatization, ability to measure the light/dark cycle and adaptation to seasonal change, can provide important information for analyses of phenotype, genotype and environmental interaction. For these reasons, we believe that medaka, a model animal established in Japan, is a good candidate for experimental animal studies of phenotype and genotype interactions in changing environments.