Recent major research achievements

■Papers

Aihara Y, Maruyama S, Baird A H, Iguchi A, Takahashi S and Minagawa J. (2019)

Green fluorescence from cnidarian hosts attracts symbiotic algae.

PNAS, 116, 2118-2123 Press release（NIBB）

Kosugi M, Maruo F, Inoue T, Kurosawa N, Kawamata A, Koike H, Kamei Y, Kudoh S and Imura S. (2018)

A comparative study of wavelength-dependent photoinactivation in photosystem II of drought-tolerant photosynthetic organisms in Antarctica and the potential risks of photoinhibition in the habitat.

Ann Bot., 122, 1263-1278

Matsuo M, Yoriko Ando Y, Kamei Y and Fukamachi S. (2018)

A semi-automatic and quantitative method to evaluate behavioral photosensitivity in animals based on the optomotor response (OMR).

Biol Open, 7, bio033175.

Petroutsos D, Tokutsu R, Maruyama S, Flori S, Greiner A, Magneschi L, Cusant L, Kottke T, Mittag M, Hegemann P, Finazzi G and Minagawa J. (2016)

A blue-light photoreceptor mediates the feedback regulation of photosynthesis.

Nature 537, 563-566. Press release（NIBB）

Ikehata H, Higashi S, Nakamura S, Daigaku Y, Furusawa Y, Kamei Y, Watanabe M, Yamamoto K, Hieda K, Munakata N and Ono T. (2013)

Action spectrum analysis of UVR genotoxicity for skin: The border wavelengths between UVA and UVB can bring serious mutation loads to skin.

J. Invest. Dermatol., 133, 1850-1856.

Shikata T, Matsunaga S, Iseki M, Nishide H, Higashi S-I, Kamei Y, Yamaguchi M, Jenkinson I R and Watanabe M. (2013)

Blue light regulates the rhythm of diurnal vertical migration in the raphidophyte red-tide alga Chattonella antiqua.

J. Plankton Res., 35, 542-552.

Karahara I, Takaya E, Fujibayashi S, Inoue H, Weller J L, Reid J B and Sugai M. (2011)

Development of the Casparian strip is delayed by blue light in pea stems.

Planta, 234, 1019-1030.

Shikata T, Iseki M, Matsunaga S, Higashi S, Kamei Y and Watanabe M. (2011)

Blue and Red Light-Induced Germination of Resting Spores in the Red-Tide Diatom Leptocylindrus danicus.

Photochem. Photobiol., 87, 590-597.

Arimoto-Kobayashi S, Sano K, Machida M, Kaji K and Yakushi K. (2010)

UVA activation of N-dialkylnitrosamines releasing nitric oxide, producing strand breaks as well as oxidative damages in DNA, and inducing mutations in the Ames test.

Mutat. Res. 691, 47-54.