REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!! Start your countdown; #WCMB2026 is happening exactly one year from now! Register here: wcmb2026.org/registration @unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be #marinebiodiversity

国立遺伝学研究所は、遺伝形質研究系教授または准教授を公募します。2025年12月24日（水）正午必着。採用条件は微生物あるいは微生物に関連した生命現象を対象とする研究分野で優れた業績を持ち、遺伝研核生物リソースを発展させられること。ご応募お待ちしています。募集要項 www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/2025/...

Lagman, Bergqvist & Kuraku analysed opsin gene evolution in jawless vertebrates, confirming tandem duplications of visual opsins before the vertebrate radiation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf231 #evobio #molbio #opsins

Thanks to our whole EBP community for making this milestone possible. | @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social | @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social | @atlasea.bsky.social | @biogeneurope.bsky.social | @ergabiodiv.bsky.social | @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social | @invertebrates.bsky.social | @projectpsyche.bsky.social |

​Due to a power outage caused by a lightning strike on Sep 5th, the web servers operated by us, incl. #aLeaves (but excl. #gVolante), are currently down. More information could be posted at the top of this 'annex' page (which is still alive) if the down time lasts long. github.com/Squalomix/me...

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

Today we’re introducing a major update to the family seed alignments, protein features, and relationship data visualizations on the Dfam website. In addition, we are adding two new datasets: ULTRA reported tandem repeats, and self-alignments.

「野生生物を虐げる不法ペット貿易」 自然界から生物が姿を消しているのは，生息地の喪失よりも野生動物のペット取引によるところが大きいかもしれない。 別冊日経サイエンス274『鳥の惑星　飛翔, 渡り, さえずりを科学する』 www.nikkei-science.com/sci_book/bes...

Confirmed the ties between consortia @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and #Squalomix by visiting at the ERGA booth with @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social at #ESEB2025

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

\　⏰まだまだ参加募集中　/ 三島市内小学生のみなさま、遺伝研でお待ちしています！！

Very curious to follow up how the taxa of our interests, particularly Chondrichthyes 🦈, of course, are catalogued under this 'Tree of Sex Consortium' relaunched.

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。

#ERGAReads | Can #genomic analysis estimate past population size? ⌛️📉 Sequentially Markovian coalescent #SMC methods can lead to misleading estimates. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is needed to interpret them accurately. 🧬 🔗 Read more: www.cell.com/trends/genet... @qmul.ac.uk

#ERGAReads | This week, we highlight Squalomix, our newest associated partner 🦈🧬 #Squalomix tackles key challenges in #elasmobranch genomics through advanced cytological techniques and high-fidelity long-read sequencing. 🔗 f1000research.com/articles/11-... @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social #sharks #rays

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

We have extended our abstract submission to June 1st! Get conference details here: www.baskingshark.ie/conference2025 and submit your abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

GRCz12tu is available on Genbank. This will be one of two genomes that will be considered "reference" genomes, there will also be a GRCz12ab assembly coming. It has entered the NCBI annotation pipeline and will also go into the Ensembl annotation pipeline. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

(3/4) 🌍 The EBP dream-team are sequencing genomes 🧬 to accelerate #research, improve protections, and identify the species that make up critical ecosystems. 🧬Dive into these genomes with @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social, and many more 🌏

We are based at National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan, close to Suruga Bay >2500m deep & Mt. Fuji >3700m high. #Squalomix #MedakaBase

Empowering medaka fish biology with versatile genomic resources in MedakaBase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653297v1

RepeatMasker 4.1.9 released. This release includes fixes for ProcessRepeats (speed issues, and divide-by-zero), a fix for clade-level pHMM (nhmmer) searches, and some minor utility/documentation updates. See the www.repeatmasker.org for more release details.

“Intragenomic mutational heterogeneity: structural and functional insights from gene evolution” by Yuichiro Hara & Shigehiro Kuraku (@kurakulabmsm.bsky.social) FREE access till June 24th at this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2K3cQbJF...

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...

Learn about the internationally-diverse Phng Lab @riken-bdr.bsky.social 🇲🇾 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇺🇦 🇲🇲 🇮🇳 🐟 #zebrafish @phnglab.bsky.social

Having a glimpse of the Vietnam's Red List, with the same mind about biodiversity and potentials of genomics as we tackle with the Japanese counterpart. vast.gov.vn/web/vietnam-... #PacBioPRISM

One week to go! #PacBioPrism #Squalomix

Our research on sharks🦈 & rays will be introduced at #PacBioPrism in Da Nan, Vietnam🇻🇳, on April 15 by Shigehiro Kuraku. #Squalomix

昨日の一般公開、当研究室は、DNA情報に基づいて脊椎動物の進化を辿る研究の意義や手法、とくにサメやエイの貴重な試料の確保について紹介しました。たくさんの方々に来場いただき、さまざまな刺激をいただきました。 www.sut-tv.com/news/single/... #遺伝研一般公開 #Squalomix

Our research on sharks🦈 & rays will be introduced at #PacBioPrism in Da Nan, Vietnam🇻🇳, on April 15 by Shigehiro Kuraku. #Squalomix

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

RepeatMasker 4.1.8 released. A major update to ProcessRepeats has significantly reduced RepeatMasker's memory requirements. Additionally, RepeatMasker now supports the new FamDB 2.0.0 format introduced in Dfam 3.9. See the www.repeatmasker.org for more release details.

Eggcase of the zebra shark (aka leopard shark), Stegostoma tigrinum.

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...

Be a shark in a sea of stars! ✨ #pottery

Eggcase of the zebra shark (aka leopard shark), Stegostoma tigrinum.

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

いつも見えるわけではないのです。 では、単に運なのかというと、・・・。 どうなのでしょうか？ news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/7a4...

Inspiring talks from PacBio session at #PAG32 in January 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Fz... @pacbio.bsky.social

Looking to explore more from the EBP community? Here are some must-follow accounts showcasing exciting projects and initiatives. 🧬 @catbiogenoma.bsky.social 🧬 @atlasea.bsky.social 🧬 @ergabiodiv.bsky.social 🧬 @projectpsyche.bsky.social 🧬 @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social 🧬 @wiseancestors.bsky.social

生物学的発見を目指した独自研究だけではなく、生物多様性の成立ちのより深い理解を目指して、解析ノウハウの普及や有用リソースのシームレスな共有のための活動を広く行っています。 2025年春までのおもな発信予定です。 www.treethinkers.info/post/2025%E5...

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.

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