A four-flippered striped dolphin was caught off the coast of Taiji, Japan in January 2023—this is the second individual dolphin with hind flippers captured off Taiji, the first being a bottlenose dolphin in 2006.
Short communication here: https://t.co/7fo3zlYsST https://t.co/3kA04tSe6X
First record of the natural first intermediate host of Lutztrema attenuatum, a cosmopolitan trematode of passerine birds (in Japanese)
スズメ目の鳥類に広く寄生するホソヤカルッツ吸虫の自然界における第一中間宿主の発見
#Parasite #lifecycle #Taxa
Kakui & Komai ab Scutariella flatworms on Neocaridina shrimp from Hokkaido published (open access)
北海道からヌマエビ類寄生性扁形動物であるエビヤドリツノムシを初めて報告した成果が出版されました(誰でも読めます)
Link: https://t.co/fWdAmVsxFe https://t.co/0XriqaoiWS
佐渡で見つかる金色ドブネズミにはMC1Rの欠失が生じているという論文が出たらしい。
A 1-bp deletion in Mc1r in a Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) from Sado Island, Japan gives rise to a yellowish color variant: an insight into mammalian MC1R variants
https://t.co/zbHUSSNTOY