2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Genetic basis for invasiveness of alien species
Project/Area Number |
25291096
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Ecology/Environment
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Research Institution | Tohoku University |
Principal Investigator |
Makino Takashi 東北大学, 生命科学研究科, 准教授 (20443442)
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Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
Kawata Masakado 東北大学, 大学院生命科学研究科, 教授 (90204734)
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 遺伝子重複 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Species vary their adaptability to novel environments. We investigated a relationship between the proportion of duplicated genes in animal genomes and their ecological features to predict adaptability of species based on genomic sequences. We sequenced a genome of invasive species Procambarus clarkii with high adaptability, and found that P. clarkii had the highest proportion of duplicated genes compared to other fully sequenced invertebrates.
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Free Research Field |
比較ゲノム学
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