Yukuto Sato

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: The value of high-coverage sequencing for constructing population-specific variant panels, which covers 99.0% SNVs of minor allele frequency ≥0.1%, is demonstrated, and its value for identifying causal rare variants of complex human disease phenotypes in genetic association studies is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The ability of eDNA metabarcoding to reveal fish community structures in species-rich coastal waters by using high-performance fish-universal primers and systematic spatial water sampling at 47 stations covering ~11 km2 revealed the fish community structure at a species resolution.

TL;DR: The comparative genome analysis suggests that rapid gene loss just after the WGD reshaped teleost genomes before the major divergence is suggested, and provides a useful set of marker genes for future phylogenetic analysis.

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.