- 著者
- Yoshiki KATO Toshiaki SHITAMITSU Makoto OKAZAKI Hideyuki YAMASHITA
- 出版者
- Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
- 雑誌
- Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly: JARQ (ISSN:00213551)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.57, no.2, pp.145-152, 2023-04-01 (Released:2023-04-26)
- 参考文献数
- 27
The neon flying squid, Ommastrephes bartramii, is an economically important oceanic squid species that has been harvested commercially in the North Pacific by Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan. The Fisheries Research Agency (FRA) of Japan conducted long-term research for this species from 1980 to 2009 using commercial vessels to clarify the resource ecology and it obtained a total dataset of approximately 9,000 days, where following from this and to better clarify the relationship between habitat preference and oceanographic conditions, a generalized additive model was applied and mapped onto the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation ocean/sea ice reanalysis (SODA) data. The resultant habitat map of the squid showed an area of high abundance at the Subarctic Frontal Zone (SAFZ), with abundance areas increasing the squid abundance from April to August. The SAFZ extends from 40°N to 43°N separating the cold, low-salinity, subarctic water to the north from the waters of the North Pacific Transition Zone to the south. This high abundance area intersects between subarctic area and temperate area. It has characteristic nutrient regimes, productivity cycles, and nektonic faunal compositions. This paper suggests that the SAFZ thus plays an important role in North Pacific ecosystems by providing an optimal balance between environmental temperature and food density for the neon flying squid.
- 著者
- Chie Watanabe Yoshifumi Kimizuka Yuji Fujikura Takaaki Hamamoto Akira Watanabe Takashi Yaguchi Tomoya Sano Ryohei Suematsu Yoshiki Kato Jun Miyata Susumu Matsukuma Akihiko Kawana
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.7639-21, (Released:2021-10-26)
- 参考文献数
- 29
- 被引用文献数
- 3
A 69-year-old woman who had undergone renal transplantation and was receiving sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (ST) developed pulmonary nocardiosis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the identification of Nocardia elegans using nanopore sequencing, supported by 16S rDNA capillary sequencing findings. Chest computed tomography performed after ST initiation revealed significant improvement of the pulmonary shadows compared to previous findings. We herein report the value of nanopore sequencing for rapid identification of rare pathogens, such as Nocardia elegans. Furthermore, our findings suggest that Nocardia may infect even patients receiving ST, which is currently the most effective prophylactic drug.