A milestone for a great zoologist... The number of citations increased by approximately 50 from last year

Our new paper is out in Journal of Anatomy. We compared the embryonic development of the musculoskeletal and nervous system around the syrinx and elucidated the homology of the syringeal muscles among three birds: chicks, cockatiels, and zebra finches. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Checking fertilized croc eggs

Our Aodaisho embryo was chosen as the cover image of The Anatomical Record. See also our latest snake EvoDevo paper: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thanks for the highlight! This was a huge amount of virtual dissection and segmentation work by Nicolas Brualla (not yet on bsky I think), who recently defended his PhD thesis based on this work.

Here, @biosonar.bsky.social & @mdoube.bsky.social & co compared the 3D laryngeal morphology of 23 bat species from 11 families, finding muscle hypertrophy is NOT characteristic of all bats but represents differential development! (2/3)

Calling vertebrate morphologists around the globe! Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals! 📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui... 🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET 📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: [email protected]

Does anyone here know biology forum that allows us to feel free to ask some technical questions?

［Upcoming Event] I am invited to the session on "Bioacoustics of bats" in The Japan Society for Bioacoustics 2024 (will be held in The Univ. of Tokyo). I'll be talking about our recent project "EvoDevo×Bioacoustics" (Nojiri et al. 2024). See the link below for details. bacoust.org?p=1898&lang=en

爬虫類で一番種数が多いはずのトカゲ類 (Lacertilia)の胚が一番入手が難しい気がする

I forgot to announce a new paper on snake hearing evolution🐍 We reported heterochronic shift of the prootic bone within snakes. This suggests ossification timing of the bony capsule reflects dominate sensory organ (i.e. hearing or pit organ). anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My research articles have recently been cited over 100 times. I'll continue to publish more and more papers on evolutionary biology of hearing & vocalization system in animals.

Great News! Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!

Great News! Our research article that revisited "Haeckel's recapitulation theory" with bat embryos has been chosen as the most cited paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B (from 2022 to2023)!

I was "inhaling" cats this holiday. This usually wipes all anxious matters out (And I am usually scolded by them with cute paws).

In these days, I am again reminded that embryologists and functional morphologists have substantially different minds and viewpoints to confer an explanation of "how morphotraits evolutionarily change" to us.

I could see two-toed sloth by my own eyes for the first time. You'll see them at Kariyushi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Here is undoubtedly a rare place that has all representative species of xenarthrans (sloths, anteaters, and armadillos)!!

My presentation at this conference is over. Among medical scientists, I provided evolutionary morphology and development of sound-related organs in birds 🐧 and bats 🦇. I could obtain more constructive comments (exclusively on discrepancy between humans and others) than I expected.

I'm staying in Okinawa (southern island in Japan) for annual conference of Anatomical Society Japan.

I shall position the next year as a term to practice developmental genetic approach. To this end, all upcoming papers that I mainly lead will incorporate gene expression data.

Patience is a weapon, but not a virtue. It doesn't suit everyone.

Huhhh I have finally done manuscript correction (it took for three days in total). I try to submit this by the end of this month. Cuz my background is originally in mammalogy, all the comments from the herpetologist (my colleague) are very informative to me.

I have started to revise a pending paper (but it will take so long time due to many points to be corrected by my collaborator)

Unlike in heterochrony, highly accurate methodology of heterotopy analysis has not been developed yet, I guess.

Finally submitted a new article. I still have ms to be submitted to the other article, so will be busy for a while.

Japanese research group (SOKENDAI) elucidates the evolutionary origin of Japanese wolf. "Based on phylogenetic and geographic relationships, the dog lineage has most likely originated in East Asia, where it diverged from a common ancestor with the Japanese wolf. " www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I managed to finish writing ms for submission to one journal, due on the end of this month.

In this regard, Dr. Rui Diogo mentioned in this review article that we should not conclude the traits to be homologous only based on a single line of evidence: in other words, any other information such as morphogenesis or fossil evidence should be incorporated into analyses.

In the investigation process of the homology in some pairs of organs, the innervation has been traditionally referred as one key clue, but regarding peripheral nerves (that is so thin branches), it may not be persuasive evidence, cuz it is evolutionarily plastic compared to main branch, I guess.

I often wondered what will happen in science if generative AI such as DALL-E in Open AI is applied for preparation of figures in papers, but in these days I have been able to see those effects and at the same time, I can realize myself in some kind of turning point in science.

The motivation for writing draft or grant application form seems to highly vary depending on daily condition, I guess. When I'm on the mood to write, I make great progress, and when I'm not, I can't get anything done...

I heard that this year is 200th anniversary since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was documented by William Buckland in 1824. Congrats!

My esteemed scientist once said, "When you find a mystery, half of that matter has been already resolved". I believe that this addresses a truth in science. If we don't have sufficient knowledge on that field, that mystery would not even be recognized.

Last week had I heavy tasks (many paper works with tight deadline) but thanks to kindful supports and prompt response by my collaborators, I successfully managed to finish preparing ms. (yet I have to hurry up for their revisions to submit this month...)

My rival (and friend) on bats evolution seems to extend his interest to bats-viral co-evolution. Great news.

I found some typos so posted again

Today is a WorldPangolinDay! It is known that approximately 200,000 pangolins are annually poached from the wild for traditional medical application of their scales. Now that they are almost endangered mammals, our conservative action is required to effectively protect.

I luckily got a good response from an oversea scientist. This may provide a great deal of interesting collaborative studies. Whoopee!

Needless to say, a preparing of schematic illustration is an essential part of an academic paper. It should be trained as well as academic writing. I'll keep in my mind.

ドラゴンフライ顕微鏡を教えてもらえることに。 使ったことがない機械を覚えるのってなんだかわくわくします

Actually I have a co-authored paper in Front Cell Dev Biol (regarding the evolution and development of the nasal turbinates in bats)... As many scientists have pointed out, the review process in that paper was surely skeptical

原稿を共著者に投げた。 カンヅメ生活から解き放たれました

図版の微修正おわり。

引用文献チェックもおわり。

原稿執筆カンヅメ生活のお供はプルダック生春巻きです

Abstract執筆かんりょ。

New phylogenetic hypothesis of modern birds. At a glance, the topology of the telluravians seems not to be largely modified. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Introduction執筆おわり。 1日じゃあ終わらなかった…

They may have a sophisticated capability for infrasound (as in elephants🐘), mainly to mutual communication. Just my delusion.

I sometimes wonder how sauropodmorpha🦕 groups utilized acoustic cues. Given that their head remains positioned at the high altitude during life cycle, the hearing capability would not be always required to predator detection...