Marine Genomics Unit (Noriyuki Satoh)
23 Jun 2016
Coral cannot survive on its own for long. It needs to create a ...
Type: News Article
19 May 2016
The University Museum of the University of Tokyo is diplaying two specimens that OIST members contributed as part of the exhibition “Chi no Kairou” or “Hall of Inspiration” . One is the pearl oyster...
Type: Photo
10 Dec 2015
A team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), led by Group Leader Chuya Shinzato in Professor Noriyuki Satoh’s Marine Genomics Unit, has analyzed the genome...
Type: Press release
10 Dec 2015
Full moon nights in summer are very special for corals. At 10 p.m., when water is around 24°C (75°F), Acropora digitifera corals in the southernmost part of Japan start to release their eggs and...
Type: Video
10 Dec 2015
Full moon nights in summer are very special for corals. At 10 p.m., when water is around 24°C (75°F), Acropora digitifera corals in the southernmost part of Japan start to release their eggs and...
Type: Video
10 Dec 2015
Full moon nights in summer are very special for corals. At 10 p.m., when water is around 24°C (75°F), Acropora digitifera corals in Okinawa start to release their eggs and sperm, known as gametes,...
Type: Photo
10 Dec 2015
Recent recovery of coral reefs in the Sesoko Island in the Okinawa Islands.
Type: Photo
10 Dec 2015
Acropora digitifera corals (a) were collected in four locations of the Ryukyu Archipelago (b) in southernmost Japan: the Okinawa Islands (c), the Kerama Islands (d) and the Yaeyama Islands (e). The...
Type: Photo
10 Dec 2015
Dr Chuya Shinzato has led to analyze the genome of 155 samples of Acropora digitifera corals and proposed a new theory on how coral populations have migrated within the Ryukyu Archipelago, in...
Type: Photo
10 Dec 2015
Genome analysis of coral samples collected from the Kerama, the Okinawa, the Yaeyama Islands, with each square, circle and triangle representing one coral sample. The samples cluster in 4 groups...
Type: Photo
19 Nov 2015
A team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and its collaborators has sequenced the genomes of two species of small water creatures called acorn worms and...
Type: Press release
