Research keywords (3)：
D-amino acid
, Planarian
, Germ cell
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：
2023 - 2027 Development of mathematics teaching materials, teaching methods, and curricula to foster the ability to create and analyze mathematical models
2019 - 2023 数理・データサイエンス教育のためのデータ分析を訓練する数学教材の開発
2018 - 2022 Comparing the sexualization mechanisms of related species planarians using sex-inducing factors to clarify the evolution of reproductive strategy
2013 - 2016 Role of commensal bacteria in the switch of reproductive modes of planarians
2010 - 2012 Study of chemical signals for the induction of reproductive organs in the asexual planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis
Papers (11)：
Takanori Ikenaga, Aoshi Kobayashi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Kentaro Uesugi, Takanobu Maezawa, Norito Shibata, Tatsuya Sakamoto, Hirotaka Sakamoto. Volume X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography Analysis of the Early Cephalized Central Nervous System in a Marine Flatworm, Stylochoplana pusilla. Zoological science. 2024. 41. 3. 281-289
Makoto Kitamura, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yurie Horiguchi, Sayaka Manta, Ikuma Saito, Hisashi Iwaya, Hikaru Okamoto, Nanna Nagao, Yumi Yanagihara, Yu Taguchi, et al. Sex-Inducing Activities of the Land Planarian Bipalium nobile Extract Fractions, Obtained Using Bioassay-Guided Fractionation, in the Freshwater Planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis. Zoological science. 2021. 38. 6. 544-557
Takanobu Maezawa, Masaki Ishikawa, Kiyono Sekii, Go Nagamatsu, Ryohei Furukawa, Kazuya Kobayashi. D-Tryptophan enhances the reproductive organ-specific expression of the amino acid transporter homolog Dr-SLC38A9 involved in the sexual induction of planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis. Zoological letters. 2021. 7. 1. 4-4
Sekii K, Yorimoto S, Okamoto H, Nagao N, Maezawa T, Matsui Y, Yamaguchi K, Furukawa R, Shigenobu S, Kobayashi K. Transcriptomic analysis reveals differences in the regulation of amino acid metabolism in asexual and sexual planarians. Scientific reports. 2019. 9. 1. 6132
