Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
The purposes of this project was to explore the maintenance mechanism of enantiomorphy and the process of its evolutionary divergence in tree snails, with main focus on the functions and divergence of the traits responsible for the dynamic equilibrium of enantiomorphy. The proximate subjects were to continue long-term surveys of morph frequencies and to evaluate the relative copulation frequencies of the enantiomorphs. We also tested the phylogenetical hypothesis of the evolution of genitalia We discovered the unexpectedly successful copulation between the enantiomorphs the wild It is fist behavioral evidence that negative frequency dependent selection may maintain enantiomorphy. Our molecular phylogeny suggested that enantiomorphy has persisted in the genus Amphidromus for at least one million generations and thus enantiomorphy is evolutionarily stable. lb genital morphology must play a key role for copulation between the enantiomorphs, especially because this groups of tree snails perform copulation in fire-to-face position, which has been expected to interfere interchiral copulation. We found possible correlation between the evolution of enantiomorphy with the divergence of genital morphology and also the necessity of additional factor, to explain the absence and presence of enantiomorphy in subspecies within species that indicate no difference in genitalia.
All 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
All Journal Article (86 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 38 results) Book (2 results)
Journal of Heredity doi:10.1093/jhered/esn032(電子媒体)
Fishery Science 73
10019911295
Macromolecular Bioscience 8
Pages: 46-59
Journal of Heredity 10, 1093
Pages: 32-32
Pages: 1325-1331
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20
Biology Letters 3
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 76
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 5
Aquatic Ecology DOI 10.1007/s10452-007-9105-3(電子媒体)
Science Report, Earth Evolution Sciences, University of Tsukuba 1
Pages: 33-36
SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY 5
Pages: 409-415
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 24
Pages: 913-921
120002383250
BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 7
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION 43
Pages: 24-31
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION 40
Pages: 484-500
Pages: 661-672
Pages: 169-172
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 76.023101
Pages: 1-4
Pages: 19-26
Aquatic Ecology 10.1007
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 24
BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY No.87
Pages: 159-171
Evolutionary Ecology Research 8
Pages: 591-604
Population Ecology 48
Pages: 113-119
10018121477
Journal of Theoretical Biology 242
Pages: 736-742
Paleontological Research 10
Pages: 311-336
Pages: 629-642
Population Ecology 48:
Pages: 107-112
Physics Letters A 357
Pages: 213-217
Mathematical Biosciences 201
European Journal of Protistology, 42
Pages: 143-153
Journal of Molluscan Studies, 72
Pages: 259-266
Earth & Planetary Science Letter 242
Pages: 39-50
Journal of Molecular Evolution 62
Pages: 307-318
Marine Biotechnology, 8
Pages: 52-61
10019166532
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 23
Pages: 981-987
ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE 9
Pages: 121-128
Physics Letters A357
Pages: 125-142
European Journal of Protistology 42
Journal of Molluscan Studies 72
Marine Biotechnology 8
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 74
Journal of Molecular Evolution 61
Pages: 36-53
GENETICS, 171
Pages: 1695-1705
Pages: 1719-1727
GENE 355
Pages: 28-39
BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES 70
Pages: 1-9
JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY 39
Pages: 265-310
Pages: 3163-3166
GENETICS 171
アクアネット 11
Pages: 21-23
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 73
JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, 38
Pages: 2779-2788
Kobayashi, 1.(ed.) Biomineralization : formation, diversity, evolution and application, Tokai University Press
Pages: 172-175
Pages: 2914-2915
JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY 38
Pages: 2914-2914
iEMSs 2004 International Congress : "Complexity and Integrated Resources Management." 2
Pages: 816-816
Pages: 834-834
Pages: 852-852
Pages: 858-858
Pages: 870-870