Wataru Iwasaki

TL;DR: The metabarcoding approach presented here is non-invasive, more efficient, more cost-effective and more sensitive than the traditional survey methods and has the potential to serve as an alternative tool for biodiversity monitoring that revolutionizes natural resource management and ecological studies of fish communities on larger spatial and temporal scales.

TL;DR: MitoFish contains re-annotations of previously sequenced fish mitogenomes, enabling researchers to refer to them when they find annotations that are likely to be erroneous or while conducting comparative mitogenomic analyses.

TL;DR: A clade of open-ocean fishes containing Scombridae is named “Pelagia” in reference to the common habitat preference that links the 15 families, suggesting that they represent a previously undetected adaptive radiation in the pelagic realm.

TL;DR: The genome of the marine flavobacterium Nonlabens marinus S1-08T encodes three different types of rhodopsins, and functional analysis demonstrated that NM-R1 andNM-R2 are light-driven outward-translocating H+ and Na+ pumps, respectively, representing the first chloride-pumping r Rhodopsin uncovered in a marine bacterium.

TL;DR: The results presented here show that the eDNA metabarcoding approach is also promising even for forest mammal biodiversity surveys, and suggests that MiMammal primers are capable of amplifying and distinguishing a diverse group of mammalian species.