Research field (2)：
Animal production science
, Laboratory animal science
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：
2022 - 2025 Tracing the origin of morphological change in tooth class during human evolution ~ QTL analysis with Suncus murinus ~
2013 - 2018 The process of immigration by humans of commensal house shrews around the Indian Ocean
2011 - 2012 Study of the genetic diversity of C57BL/6N inbred mouse substrains
Papers (43)：
Takaoki Kasahara, Kazuyuki Mekada, Kuniya Abe, Alan Ashworth, Tadafumi Kato. Complete sequencing of the mouse pseudoautosomal region, the most rapidly evolving ‘chromosome’. bioRxiv. 2022
Katayama S, Mekada K. Partner preferences of three captive vole (Microtus) species derived from Eurasia and Japan. Naturalistae. 2022. 26. 15-19
Ikemoto-Kobayashi M, Shinohara A, Jogahara T, Oda SI, Mekada K. Volatile fatty acids and microflora composition in the digestive tract of the East European vole (Microtus levis). Naturalistae. 2022. 26. 7-13
Yui Terayama, Shin-ichi Nakamura, Kazuyuki Mekada, Tetsuro Matsuura, Kiyokazu Ozaki. High-fat diet-induced nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is accelerated by low carnitine and impaired glucose tolerance in novel murine models. Laboratory Investigation. 2022. 102. 6. 621-630
Kazuyuki Mekada, Atsushi Yoshiki. Substrains matter in phenotyping of C57BL/6 mice. Experimental Animals. 2021. 70. 2. 145-160
Mekada K, Oyake A, Miyake S, Yamaguchi H, Hiraki E, Yoshida S, Tokumatsu E, Mochida H. Basic reproductive feature of captive Arabian spiny mice (Acomys dimidiatus). 岡山理科大学紀要. 2021. 57. A. 7-11
小松 亮, 目加田和之. マイクロサテライトDNAマーカーを用いたスンクス系統間の遺伝的多型解析. 岡山理科大学紀要. 2020. 56. A. 29-33
