Goto Lab | Animal Genetics and Genomics

Welcome to GOTO LAB in the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, JAPAN.  We are working in Animal Genetics and Genomics with livestock animals.  

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[News & Updates]

# [May 26th, 2025] We published a new review paper; Gyawali and Goto "Assessing the genetic and environmental factors on egg amino acid traits in chickens: a review." in Animals.  

# [May 4th, 2024] We published a new paper; Nyirimana et al. "Morphological variation of tail bone among two chicken breeds and their F1 progeny." in Journal of Morphology. 

# [September 20th, 2023] Mr. Prudence Nyirimana and Mr. Keisuke Kurachi received English Presentation Award in the 131st Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Animal Science for presentations entitled “Morphological traits in an intercross population based on Ko-shamo and Minohikichabo chickens" and "Strain differences of egg size traits using three strains of quail". Congratulations, Prudence and Keisuke! [HP]

# [Aug 2nd, 2023] We published a new paper; Goto et al. "Establishment of wild-derived strains of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) in field and laboratory experiments." in Biology.

# [June 1st, 2023] We published a new paper; Kawamura et al. "Housing systems affect eggshell lightness and free amino acid contents of egg albumen in Tosa-jidori chickens: a preliminary research." in Animals.

# [January 25th, 2023] We published a new paper; Kawamura et al. "Combined effect of feed and housing system affects free amino acid content of egg yolk and albumen in brown layer chickens" in Journal of Poultry Science. 

# [September 16th, 2022] Ms. Nonoka Kawamura received English Presentation Award in the 130th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Animal Science for a presentation entitled “Genetic parameter estimates for size, weight, color, and amino acid of egg in Hinaidori chickens”. Congratulations, Nonoka! [HP]

# [August 23-26th, 2022] Ms. Nonoka Kawamura received JSAS Excellent Presentation Award from Japanese Society of Animal Science for a presentation entitled "Heritability estimates of egg traits and yolk amino acid traits in Hinaidori chickens" on The 19th Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production (AAAP) Animal Science Congress (2022), 23-26 August 2022, Jeju, Korea. Congratulations, Nonoka! [HP]

# [July 11th, 2022] We published a new paper; Kondoh et al. "Morphological variations of caudal skeleton between three chicken breeds" in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science.

# [June 22th, 2022] Tatsuhiko GOTO had an invited talk entitled "Mapping quantitative trait loci for egg traits using several Japanese indigenous chickens" in a workshop of 'Applications of Multi-Omics Technologies for Poultry Breding' PAG ASIA 2022, Online Conference, China. We appreciate Prof. Hui Zhang at Northeast Agricultural University for organising the workshop. 

# [January 25th, 2022] We published a new paper; Ono et al. "Phenotypic analysis of growth and morphological traits in miniature breeds of Japanese indigenous chickens" in Journal of Poultry Science. 

# [December 8th, 2021] We published a new paper; Goto et al. "Genotype affects free amino acids of egg yolk and albumen in Japanese indigenous breeds and commercial Brown layer chickens" in Poultry Science. 

# [November 19th, 2021] We opened a special lecture entitled "Genetic diversity and the architectures of adaptation and incompatibility" by Dr. John Pool from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, at the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, JAPAN. 

# [November 13th, 2021] Mr. Michiru Ohtani received Presentation Prize from the Japanese Society of Animal Breeding and Genetics for a presentation entitled “Relationship between crest phenotype and structural variant of HOXC10 in Jitokko chickens”. Congratulations, Michiru!  [HP]

# [October 8th, 2021] We published a new paper; Nishimura et al. "Genetic effect on free amino acid contents of egg yolk and albumen using five different chicken genotypes under floor rearing system" in PLoS ONE. 

# [January 27th, 2021] We published a new paper; Goto et al. "Impact on genetic differences among various chicken breeds on free amino acid contents of egg yolk and albumen" in Scientific Reports. 

# [January 20th, 2021] Tatsuhiko GOTO had a invited talk in English entitled "Searching for genes underlying a variety of phenotypes using genetic resource of chickens " The 265th Regulaer Open Seminar of Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH) in Kyoto University JAPAN. 

# [January 8th, 2021] We published a new paper; Goto et al. "Analyses of free amino acid and taste sensor traits in egg albumen and yolk revealed potential of value-added eggs in chickens" in Animal Science Journal. 

# [November 27th, 2020] Tatsuhiko GOTO received "Japan Prize of Agricultural Science, Achievement Award for Young Scientists" towards the researches entitled "Identification of genetic basis underlying egg and growth traits in chickens" from The Foundation of Agricultural Sciences of Japan.  The University's HP

# [October 13th, 2019] We published a new paper; Goto et al. "Metabolomics approach reveals the effects of breed and feed on the composition of chicken eggs" in Metabolites. 

# [September 6th, 2019] We published new papers; Moroi et al. "Rapid behavioral assay using handling test provides breed and sex differences in tameness of chickens" in Brain and Behavior, Mori et al. "Breed and feed affect amino acid contents of egg yolk and eggshell color in chickens" in Poultry Science, and Goto et al. "Causal phenotypic networks for egg traits in an F2 chicken population" in Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 

# [August 22th, 2019] Tatsuhiko GOTO had a talk entitled "Breed and Feed effects on egg composition in chickens" in the meeting of rearing management for meat-type chickens at Hokkaido Research Organization, Shintoku, JAPAN. 

# [November 2nd, 2018] We opened a 1-day special seminar "Current Research on Big Data and Precision Livestock Production" by Prof. Guilherme Rosa from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, at the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, JAPAN. 

# [January 22th, 2018] Tatsuhiko GOTO had a talk entitled "Genetic and Environmental Effects on Behaviors in Mice" in the special lecture at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, JAPAN. 

# [October 25th, 2017] Tatsuhiko GOTO had a presentation entitled "Causal Phenotype Networks for Egg Traits in Chickens" in the 20th JAB Special Seminar at the Japanese Avian Bioresource Project Research Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, JAPAN. 

# [May 1st - September 30th, 2017] Tatsuhiko GOTO joined a research team of Animal Breeding and Genetics in University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA as a J-1 visiting researcher for collaborative researches supported by the Research Center for Global Agromedicine in Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, JAPAN. 

# [February 13th, 2017] We organized a special lecture entitled “Searching for Gene Function Using Wild-Derived Strains of Mice: Researches for Disease-Related Genes and Animal Domestication” by Dr. Tsuyoshi KOIDE from National Institute of Genetics, at the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, JAPAN. 

# [December 8th, 2016] Tatsuhiko GOTO had a talk entitled "Story of Eggs" in the 60th symposium of Human Net Tokachi (Theme: Eggs in Tokachi) at the Tokachi Foundation, Obihiro, JAPAN.  

# [November 28th, 2016] Tatsuhiko GOTO had a presentation entitled "Searching for Genetic Loci Affecting Eggshell Coloration Using Whole Genome Sequencing with a Variety of Chicken Breeds" in the 17th JAB Special Seminar at the Japanese Avian Bioresource Project Research Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, JAPAN.  

#This Lab has started from October 1st, 2016.