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Preventing extinction by evaluation of adaptive traits

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K14804
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Ecology/Environment
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

Chiba Satoshi  東北大学, 東北アジア研究センター, 教授 (10236812)

Research Collaborator UCHIDA Shota  
SHINOBE Shotaro  
AKIYAMA Kao  
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywords保全 / 外来種 / 絶滅 / 適応 / 捕食ー被食 / 外来生物 / 海洋島 / 陸貝 / 進化 / 生態学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Serious impacts of nonnative malacophagous flatworms on native land snails on the Ogasawara Island were detected, and medium size-large species have become mostly extinct on Chichijima. However, native micro snails were still survive and widely distributed on the island. Nonnative land snails Acusta and Satsuma were not affected by flatworms and extended their distributions. Mucus of native land snails attract flatworms, while mucus of nonnative species exhibited repellent action against flatworms. In addition, Acusta avoid attack of the flatworms by active defense behavior. These characteristics appear to be a result of adaptation against predation of flatworms on mainland, and are effective to mitigate impacts of the nonnative predators.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2018 2016

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Genetic and morphometric rediscovery of an extinct land snail on oceanic islands.2018

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, T., Wada, S., Mori, H., Uchida, S., Saito, T., & S Chiba
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Molluscan Studies

      Volume: 84 Issue: 2 Pages: 148-156

    • DOI

      10.1093/mollus/eyy003

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Evolution and extinction of land snails on oceanic Islands.2016

    • Author(s)
      Chiba, S., Cowie R.H.
    • Journal Title

      Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.

      Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Pages: 123-141

    • DOI

      10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054331

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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