2019 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Revealing evolutionary history of corals using whole genomes of five Acropora species
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17J00557
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| Research Institution | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University |
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Principal Investigator |
MAO Yafei 沖縄科学技術大学院大学, 科学技術研究科, 特別研究員(DC1)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-26 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Coral / Speciation / Introgression / WGD |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Understanding speciation and diversification is important in evolutionary biology. In this project, I used 5 Acropora genomes to investigate introgression and whole genome duplication (WGD) in coral reefs. I found the genomic evidence to support introgression and WGD, and illustrated the importance of introgression and WGD to speciation and diversification of Acropora. In addition, I have published the related pipeline in public for other researcher to repeat my work or apply their work with my developed methods. Please see (https://github.com/MaoYafei)
The related work has been published in Current biology (Mao, Yafei, Evan P. Economo, and Noriyuki Satoh. "The roles of introgression and climate change in the rise to dominance of Acropora Corals." Current Biology 28.21 (2018): 3373-3382.), iScience (Mao, Yafei, and Noriyuki Satoh. "A Likely Ancient Genome Duplication in the Speciose Reef-Building Coral Genus, Acropora." iScience 13 (2019): 20-32.), PeerJ (Mao, Yafei. "GenoDup Pipeline: a tool to detect genome duplication using the dS-based method." PeerJ 7 (2019): e6303.) and Coral reefs (Mao, Y. Coral Reefs (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01869-7).
These work provides new insights into coral resilience, as well as coral reef biodiversity and conservation.
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| Research Progress Status |
令和元年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
令和元年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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