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05.09.2025: Elucidation of the mechanism by which flowers, which trick insects into carrying pollen with their odour (carrion mimicry), produce odorous odour components.
05.08.2025: A single episode of sexual reproduction can produce large variation in population growth rates under dual stressors
04.02.2025: Replication-dependent histone labeling dissects the physical properties of euchromatin/heterochromatin in living human cells.
02.05.2025: A Near Complete Genome Assembly of the Oshima Cherry Cerasus speciosa
01.29.2025: Transcription near arrested DNA replication forks triggers ribosomal DNA copy number changes
11.21.2024: Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution
10.17.2024: Swing the cell to know the physics inside
08.28.2024: Orientation-Independent-DIC imaging reveals that a rise in depletion attraction contributes to mitotic chromosome condensation
08.26.2024: Development of double-degron technology enables super-efficient and rapid degradation of target proteins. – Cell cycle progresses to mitosis without DNA replication –
08.22.2024: Condensins and nucleosome–nucleosome interactions differentially constrain chromatin to organize mitotic chromosomes
06.14.2024: YABBY and diverged KNOX1 genes shape nodes and internodes in the stem
04.08.2024: Establishment of a zebrafish inbred strain, M-AB, capable of regular breeding and genetic manipulation-Novel zebrafish bioresource from NIG-
03.13.2024: Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies
01.25.2024: Ancient Feces Reveals Intestinal Environment of Hunters-Gatherers, Jomon People~Metagenomic analysis of human coprolites~
11.30.2023: “Metagenomic Thermometer” a novel approach to predict environmental temperatures based on metagenomic sequences.
10.05.2023: Heat-shock inducible clonal analysis reveals the stepwise establishment of cell fates in the rice stem
08.02.2023: Uncovering how the Golgi apparatus impacts early postnatal neuron development
06.06.2023: Assessment of metagenomic workflows using a newly constructed human gut microbiome mock community
04.25.2023: A small RNA system is involved in homology recognition between meiotic chromosomes
04.07.2023: Euchromatin forms condensed chromatin domain.
11.25.2022: The Thing Metabolome Repository family(XMRs): comparable untargeted metabolome databases for analyzing sample-specific unknown metabolites
10.28.2022: Rice GLUCAN SYNTHASE-LIKE5 promotes anther callose deposition to maintain meiosis initiation and progression
10.28.2022: How to build the cellular machine for error-free chromosome segregation
10.06.2022: Life cycle and functional genomics of the unicellular red alga Galdieria for elucidating algal and plant evolution and industrial use
06.06.2022: Steady-state chromatin motion throughout interphase
04.28.2022: How do genes move in living cells?
03.25.2022: Metagenomics reveals global-scale contrasts in nitrogen cycling and cyanobacterial light harvesting mechanisms in glacier cryoconite
10.25.2021: Comprehensive discovery of CRISPR-targeted terminally redundant sequences in the human gut metagenome: viruses, plasmids, and more
07.27.2021: Estrogens enhance female-specific itch
07.19.2021: PZLAST: an ultra-fast amino acid sequence similarity search server against public metagenomes
06.28.2021: Internal microbial zonation during in the massive growth of marimo, a lake ball of Aegagropila linnaei in Lake Akan
05.25.2021: Launch of “NeuroGT Database”, a brain atlas of neurogenic tagging CreER mouse drivers
04.09.2021: Six papers published in “Anthropological Science” special issue on Yaponesian Genome Project
02.22.2021: Inner-dual structure of modern Yaponesians (people in Japanese Archipelago)
11.11.2020: Genetic eraser: AID2 enables rapid target degradation in living cells and mice
11.05.2020: Genetical control of the primordial furrow that prefigures the rhinoceros beetle horn
10.15.2020: Transcriptional suppression of ribosomal DNA with phase separation
09.30.2020: Identification of ancient viruses from metagenomic data of the Jomon people
09.23.2020: Classic optical illusion leads to the discovery of critical neurons in zebrafish
09.07.2020: The analyses of capybara draft genome sequences
08.24.2020: Efficient open cultivation of cyanidialean red algae in acidified seawater
05.22.2020: CUHK and Japanese Scientists Unravel Full Genome of American Shorthair Domestic Cats Advances Precision Veterinary Medicine
03.04.2020～03.05: Canceled: The NIG International Symposium on Molecular Mechanism of Chromosome Replication
03.03.2020: A virtual reality system to analyze neural activity and behavior in adult zebrafish
02.21.2020: ALS mystery illuminated by blue light
11.15.2019: A novel katanin-tethering machinery accelerates cytokinesis
08.30.2019: Glia-neuron interactions underlie state transitions to generalized seizures
08.28.2019: The making of ‘Fancy Mouse’
07.18.2019: Scaffolding system for three-dimensional organization of neurons in the developing neocortex
05.31.2019: Identification of a key gene for freshwater colonization in fishes
03.05.2019: Transcription regulates dynamic movements of genomic DNA in living human cells
10.01.2018: Regulation of the pathway for water transport in plants
10.01.2018: Differential dynamics of cortical neuron dendritic trees revealed by long-term in vivo imaging in neonates
10.01.2018: Genetic factors contributing to ‘strabismus’ — or misaligned eyes
07.04.2018～07.05: Genome Editing and Functional Genomics 2018, July 4th-5th (NIG Symposium 2018)
07.03.2018～07.07: International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution, July 3rd-7th
06.13.2018: Development of fast and accurate taxonomic assignment tool VITCOMIC2
06.10.2018～06.13: RinkaiHackathon: Lectures and practical training on seawater metagenome, June 10th-13th
05.11.2018: Applications Guidelines for NIG Postdoctoral Fellow 2019
05.11.2018: How can animals sense danger? -Discovery of the neural circuit for fear conditioning of fish
05.11.2018: Development of NGS data analysis platform, Maser