Tsukasa Fukunaga

TL;DR: The metabarcoding approach presented here is non-invasive, more efficient, more cost-effective and more sensitive than the traditional survey methods and has the potential to serve as an alternative tool for biodiversity monitoring that revolutionizes natural resource management and ecological studies of fish communities on larger spatial and temporal scales.

TL;DR: MitoFish contains re-annotations of previously sequenced fish mitogenomes, enabling researchers to refer to them when they find annotations that are likely to be erroneous or while conducting comparative mitogenomic analyses.

TL;DR: A clade of open-ocean fishes containing Scombridae is named “Pelagia” in reference to the common habitat preference that links the 15 families, suggesting that they represent a previously undetected adaptive radiation in the pelagic realm.

TL;DR: Recent functional updates of MitoFish and implementation of MiFish pipeline for metabarcoding analysis of fish mitochondrial environmental DNA, which is a fast-emerging and powerful technology in fish studies are described.

TL;DR: Using CapR, an efficient algorithm that calculates the probability that each RNA base position is located within each secondary structural context, it is demonstrated that several RBPs bind to their target RNA molecules under specific structural contexts.