Research field (3):
Biodiversity and systematics
, Plants: molecular biology and physiology
, Evolutionary biology
Research keywords (4):
sexual reproduction
, Closterium
, Signal transduction
, Algae
Research theme for competitive and other funds (36):
2023 - 2025 単細胞接合藻類の生殖様式進化の遺伝的背景
2021 - 2024 Elucidation of last common ancestor of land plants based on meristem related genes
2020 - 2023 Analyses of receptor-like kinases and the ligands in zyganematophycean algae towards the understanding of the terrestrialization of land plants
2019 - 2022 Reformation of evolutionary genomics in land plant evolution: from sequence comparison to functional comparison.
2019 - 2021 Creation of fundamental and universal female and male concepts
2018 - 2021 Evolution of regulating factor of alternation of generations
2016 - 2021 Spatiotemporal regulation of cell division axis as a grand plan of plant developmental evolution
2018 - 2020 Toward the understanding of land plant evolution, through the analyses of zygnematophycean algae
2016 - 2020 Transition to multicellularity and evolution of female-male genders based on whole genome data
2016 - 2020 Genetic background of evolution of sexual mode, through the analyses of sex-chromosome-like region of Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex
2015 - 2019 Field survey and experimental verification to understand the evolution of mode of sexual reproduction in Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex
2014 - 2018 Sex determining mechanism in streptophytes approached by the sex determining gene of Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex
2013 - 2018 Establishment of worldwide taxonomic system of the genus Volvox and unveiling the evolution of oogamy
2012 - 2017 Evolution of female-male genders based on comparative analyses of sex-chromosomal regions
2012 - 2016 Analysis of evolution of sexual reproductive system in Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex, comparing sex-chromosome like regions
2012 - 2015 ヒメミカヅキモの異性細胞間認識、融合機構の分子生理学的解析
2010 - 2013 Analyses of reproductive isolation of Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex for the understanding of the speciation.
2011 - 2013 Critical analyses of "Sex" in homothallic Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex
2010 - 2011 ヒメミカヅキモの性特異的ファシクリン1遺伝子ファミリーの分子生理学的解析
2008 - 2011 Evolutionary studies on the origin of male and female, based on the analyses of sex-chromosomal regions
2008 - 2010 Identification and characterization of receptor for sex pheromones in Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex
2008 - 2009 植物の多細胞体制進化の鍵となったゲノム進化の特定
2006 - 2008 Study of the molecular genetic basis on evolution of multicellular body-plan in plants
2006 - 2007 Molecular biological analyses of receptorlike proteins responsible for sexual reproduction in Clasterium
2005 - 2007 Evolutionary Biological Studies of Morphological Bipolarization in Conjugating Gametes
2005 - 2007 Analysis of mechanisms of reproductive isolation and speciation in unicellular conjugatophycean Closterium.
2003 - 2004 シャジクモ藻綱植物における多細胞体制と器官形成の起源の解析
2001 - 2002 藻類の有性生殖で機能する走化性フェロモンの検出・単離と生化学的解析
2001 - 2002 ミカヅキモの性フェロモンの情報伝達機構の解析
2000 - 2002 Moleculer physiology of cAMP signal transduction in plant environmental response
2000 - 2000 藻類の有性生殖で機能する走化性フェロモンの検出・単離と生化学的解析
1999 - 2000 ミカヅキモの有性生殖に機能する走化性タンパク質の分子的解析
1997 - 1998 cDNA cloning of abscisic aldehyde oxidase in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana
Yuki Tsuchikane, Misaki Watanabe, Yawako W. Kawaguchi, Koichi Uehara, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Takashi Tsuchimatsu. Diversity of genome size and chromosome number in homothallic and heterothallic strains of the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex (Desmidiales, Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta). Journal of Phycology. 2024. 60. 3. 654-667
Kayoko Yamamoto, Ryo Matsuzaki, Wuttipong Mahakham, Wirawan Heman, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Masanobu Kawachi, Yohei Minakuchi, Atsushi Toyoda, Hisayoshi Nozaki. Erratum: Expanded male sex-determining region conserved during the evolution of homothallism in the green alga Volvox. iScience. 2023. 26. 10. 107836-107836
Yawako W Kawaguchi, Yuki Tsuchikane, Keisuke Tanaka, Teruaki Taji, Yutaka Suzuki, Atsushi Toyoda, Motomi Ito, Yasuyuki Watano, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, et al. Extensive Copy Number Variation Explains Genome Size Variation in the Unicellular Zygnematophycean Alga, Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale Complex. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2023
Kayoko Yamamoto, Ryo Matsuzaki, Wuttipong Mahakham, Wirawan Heman, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Masanobu Kawachi, Yohei Minakuchi, Atsushi Toyoda, Hisayoshi Nozaki. Expanded male sex-determining region conserved during the evolution of homothallism in the green alga Volvox. iScience. 2023. 26. 6. 106893-106893
Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants
Springer 2014 ISBN:9784431545880
Reproductive Biology of Plants
CRC press 2014 ISBN:9781482201321
動植物の受精学
化学同人 2014 ISBN:9784759815146
New insights into the regulation of sexual reproduction in Closterium in “International review of cell and molecular biology”
Academic Press 2012 ISBN:9780123943088
Transformation, whole genome, mating-type determination, and RWP-RK genes in the heterothallic Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex, a new model streptophyte alga
(Workshop in Streptophyte Algae 2023)
A divergent RWP-RK transcription factor determines mating type in heterothallic Closterium
(EMBO Workshop -An integrated view of early land plant evolution 2022)
The mechanism of mating type determination in heterothallic strains of Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex, a new model organism to study sexual reproduction in streptophytes
(第43回日本分子生物学会年会シンポジウム「コケ植物とシャジクモ藻類から陸上植物を探る」 2020)
The mating type determination in heterothallic strains of Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex, a new model organism to study sexual reproduction in charophycean algae
(The 5th International Volvox Conference 2019)