Marine Genomics Unit (Noriyuki Satoh)
20 Mar 2019 - 11:05
Along the tropical coastline of Okinawa, Japan, farmers raise rows of delectable seaweed and harvest tens of thousands of tons of the crop each year. Unfortunately, scientists predict that pollution...
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12 Mar 2019 - 10:59
Researchers from the Marine Genomics Unit stand with co-authors from the Onna Fisheries Cooperative on Nabee Beach in Okinawa. Together, the team collected and decoded the genome of ito-mozuku (...
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12 Mar 2019 - 10:57
Mozuku, a type of brown seaweed, contains exceptionally high levels of fucoidan compared to other seaweeds. This is especially true of the sporophyte of the “Onna-1” strain of ito-mozuku, a very big...
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13 Dec 2018 - 14:24
(Left to right) Prof. Noriyuki Satoh and Jun Inoue of the Marine Genomics Unit launched a new web-based tool that efficiently estimates gene trees and orthogroups among bilateral species.
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13 Dec 2018 - 14:22
Gene trees, much like family trees, trace the lineage of a particular gene from its deep ancestral roots to its still-growing stems. By comparing gene trees to species trees, which map the...
Type: News Article
12 Dec 2018 - 16:15
ORTHOSCOPE is a new web-based tool developed by researchers in the Satoh Unit to estimate gene trees. By estimating a large gene tree using candidate sequences, corresponding genes of the human...
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7 Dec 2018 - 14:25
This species tree displays the total numbers of species genome datasets employed in ORTHOSCOPE, a new tool developed by the Marine Genomics Unit designed to estimate gene trees and infer gene...
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23 Oct 2018 - 14:29
The Marine Genomics Units constructed hypothetical chromosome map for the striped catfish based on existing data from channel catfish. They predict that over 50 percent of gene locations are...
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23 Oct 2018 - 14:27
The Marine Genomics Unit determined that the striped catfish lost the ability to make the vertebrate sunscreen compound gadusol (a) due to losing the EEVS and MT-Ox genes from its genome (b). These...
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23 Oct 2018 - 14:23
Researchers from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology worked with OIST researchers to decode the striped catfish genome. Co-first author Phuong T. Nguyen is pictured on the far right and co-...
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23 Oct 2018 - 11:22
(Left to right) Koki Nishitsuji, Kanako Hisata, Eiichi Shoguchi, Jun Inoue, and Prof. Nori Satoh of the Marine Genomics Unit stand in front of Lab 1 at OIST.
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23 Oct 2018 - 11:17
The striped catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus makes its home in the legendary Mekong River, the longest river in Southeast Asia and largest inland fishery in the world . Vietnam stands as the...
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