Reticulate evolution of reticulate animal color patterns

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14593
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Biodiversity/Systematics
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: MIYAZAWA Seita 大阪大学, 生命機能研究科, 助教 (10377905)
• Research Collaborator: SUŠNIK BAJEC Simona University of Ljubljana ; DJURDJEVIČ Ida University of Ljubljana
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: パターン形成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To elucidate the variety of animal color patterns and their underlying mechanisms, we focused on the possible associations between cryptic and complex reticulate color patterns and reticulate evolutionary events such as genetic introgression and hybridization. Comparative genomics and color pattern analyses of reticulated animal species and their related species with distinct color patterns have brought new insights into the relationships between color patterns and phylogenetic patterns.

Free Research Field

発生生物学、進化生物学、数理生物学