Achievements
Publications
(*: Corresponding author, #: Authors contributed equally to work and share first authorship)
2023
28) Liu X#, Matsunami M#, Horikoshi M, Ito S, Ishikawa Y, Suzuki K, Momozawa Y, Niida S, Kimura R, Ozaki K, Maeda S, *Imamura M, *Terao C. 2023. Natural Selection Signatures in the Hondo and Ryukyu Japanese Subpopulation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40:msad231. [Abstract]
Press release in University of the Ryukyus
27) Koganebuchi K, Matsunami M, Imamura M, Kawai Y, Hitomi Y, Tokunaga K, Maeda S, Ishida H, *Kimura R. 2023. Demographic history of Ryukyu islanders at the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago inferred from whole-genome resequencing. Journal of Human Genetics, In press. [Abstract]
Press release in University of the Ryukyus, Press release in the University of Tokyo, NHK news, 沖縄タイムス
2022
26) *Takekata H, Hamazato H, Tan ES, Izumi R, Yaguchi H, Matsunami M, Isomura N, Takemura A. 2022. Transcriptome analysis in a scleractinian coral Acropora tenuis during the spawning season with reference to the gonadal condition. Zoological Science, 39:570-580. [Abstract]
25) Matsunami M#, Watanabe D#, Fujiwara K, Hayashi Y, Shigenobu S, Miura T, *Maekawa K. 2022. Transcriptomics on social interactions in termites: Effects of soldier presence. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:924151. [Abstract]
24) *Fukui A, and Matsunami M. 2022. Gene structure analysis of chemokines and their receptors in allotetoraploidy frog, Xenopus laevis. Frontiers in Genetics, 12:787979. [Abstract]
23) *Shigenobu S, Hayashi Y, Watanabe D, Tokuda G, Hojo MY, Toga K, Saiki R, Yaguchi H, Masuoka Y, Suzuki Y, Suzuki S, Kimura M, Matsunami M, Sugime Y, Oguchi K, Niimi T, Gotoh H, Mojo MK, Miyazaki S, Toyoda A, Miura T, Maekawa K. 2022. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: gene duplication facilitates social evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 119:e211036111. [Abstract]
Press release in University of the Ryukyus
2021
22) Mandagi IF, Kakioka R, Montenegro J, Kobayashi H, Masengi KWA, Inomata N, Nagano AJ, Toyoda A, Ansai S, Matsunami M, Kimura R, Kitano J, Kusumi J, *Yamahira K. 2021. Species divergence and repeated ancient admixture hybridization in a Sulawesian lake system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34:1767-1780. [Abstract]
21) Komaki S, Matsunami M, Lin JW , Lee KH, Lin YP , Lee Y, Lin SM, *Igawa T. 2021. Transcriptomic changes in hot spring frog tadpoles (Buergeria otai) in response to heat stress. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9:706887. [Abstract]
20) Palomar G, Dudek K, Migalska M, Arntzen JW, Ficetola GF, Jelić D, Jockusch EL, Martínez-Solano I, Matsunami M, Shaffer HB, Vörös J, Waldman B, Wielstra B, *Babik W. 2021. Coevolution between MHC class I and Antigen Processing Genes in salamanders. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38:5092-5106. [Abstract]
19) Imamura M, Takahashi A, Matsunami M, Horikoshi M, Iwata M, Araki S, Toyoda M, Susarla G, Ahn J, Park KH, Kong J, Moon S, Sobrin L, Yamauchi T, Tobe K, Maegawa H, Kadowaki T, *Maeda S, on behalf of the international Diabetic Retinopathy and Genetics CONsortium (iDRAGON). 2021. Genome-Wide Association Studies Identify Two Novel Loci Conferring Susceptibility to Diabetic Retinopathy in Japanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Human Molecular Genetics, 30:716–726. [Abstract]
18) Matsunami M, Koganebuchi K, Imamura M, Ishida H, Kimura R, *Maeda S 2021. Fine-scale genetic structure and demographic history in the Miyako Islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38:2045–2056. [Abstract]
Press release in University of the Ryukyus
17) *Palomar G, Dudek K, Wielstra B, Jockusch EL, Vinkler M, Arntzen JW, Ficetola GF, Matsunami M, Waldman B, Těšický M, Zieliński P, *Babik W. 2021. Molecular evolution of antigen processing genes in salamanders: do they coevolve with MHC class I genes? Genome Biology and Evolution, 13:evaa259. [Abstract]
2020
16) *Matsunami M, Miura T, Kishida O, Michimae H, Nishimura K. 2020. Expression of genes involved in offensive and defensive phenotype induction in the pituitary gland of the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retardatus). Zoological Science, 37:563-574. [Abstract]
15) *Michimae H, Matsunami M, Emura T. 2020. Robust ridge regression for estimating the effects of correlated gene expressions on phenotypic traits. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 27:41-72. [Abstract]
2019
14) Sutra N, Kusumi J, Montenegro J, Kobayashi H, Fujimoto S, Masengi KWA, Nagano AJ, Toyoda A, Matsunami M, Kimura R, *Yamahira K. 2019. Sympatric speciation in a Wallacean ancient lake. Evolution, 73:1898-1915. [Abstract]
Press release in University of the Ryukyus
13) Matsunami M, Suzuki M, Haramoto Y, Fukui A, Inoue T, Yamaguchi K, Uchiyama I, Mori K, Tashiro K, Ito Y, Takeuchi T, Suzuki KT, Agata K, *Shigenobu S, *Hayashi T. 2019. A comprehensive reference transcriptome resource for the Iberian ribbed newt Pleurodeles waltl, an emerging model for developmental and regeneration biology. DNA research, 26: 217–229. [Abstract]
Press release in University of the Ryukyus, Press release in National Institute of Basic Biology
12) Sugime Y, Oguchi K, Gotoh H, Hayashi Y, Matsunami M, Shigenobu S, Koshikawa S, *Miura T. 2019. Termite soldier mandibles are elongated by dachshund under hormonal and Hox gene controls. Development, 146: dev171942. [Abstract]
Highlighted in Development, Press release in the University of Tokyo, Press release in the Hokkaido University (PDF), 日本経済新聞
11) *Yaguchi H, Suzuki R, Matsunami M, Shigenobu S, *Maekawa K. 2019. Transcriptomic changes during caste development through social interactions in the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis. Ecology and Evolution, 9:3446-3456. [Abstract]
10) Sakuma Y, *Matsunami M, Takada T, Suzuki H. 2019. Multiple conserved elements structuring inverted repeats in the mammalian coat color-related gene Asip. Zoological Science, 36:23-31. [Abstract]
9) *Matsunami M, Nozawa M, Suzuki R, Toga K, Masuoka Y, Yamaguchi K, Maekawa K, Shigenobu S, Miura T. 2019. Caste-specific microRNA expression in termites: insights into soldier differentiation. Insect Molecular Biology, 28:86-98. [Abstract]
2018
8) Mori S and *Matsunami M. 2018. Signature of positive selection in mitochondrial DNA in Cetartiodactyla. Genes & Genetic Systems, 93:65-73. [Abstract]
7) *Michimae H, Yoshida A, Emura T, Matsunami M, Nishimura K. 2018. Reconsidering the estimation of costs of phenotypic plasticity using the robust ridge estimator. Ecological Informatics, 44:7-20. [Abstract]
6) Matsunami M, Endo D, Saitou N, Suzuki H, *Onuma M. 2018. Draft genome sequence of Japanese wood mouse, Apodemus speciosus. Data in Brief, 16:43-46. [Abstract]
2010-2017
5) *Matsunami M, Igawa T, Michimae H, Miura T, Nishimura K. 2016. Population structure and evolution after speciation of the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retardatus). PLoS One, 11:e0156815. [Abstract]
4) *Matsunami M, Kitano J, Kishida O, Michimae H, Miura T, Nishimura K. 2015. Transcriptome analysis of predator- and prey-induced phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retardatus). Molecular Ecology, 24:3064-3076. [Abstract]
Featured in Molecular Ecologists' blog, Press release in Hokkaido University (PDF), Press release in National Institute of Genetics, 財務新聞
3) *Matsunami M, Igawa T, Nozawa M, Michimae H, Miura T, Nishimura K. 2015. Development and characterization of 12 microsatellite makers for the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retardatus). Current Herpetology, 34:177-181. [Abstract]
2) Matsunami M and *Saitou N. 2013. Vertebrate paralogous conserved noncoding sequences may be related to gene expressions in brain. Genome Biology and Evolution, 5:140-150. [Abstract]
1) Matsunami M, Sumiyama K, *Saitou N. 2010. Evolution of conserved non-coding sequences within the vertebrate Hox clusters through the two-round whole duplications revealed by phylogenetic footprinting analysis. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 71:427-436. [Abstract]
Presentations
<Oral presentations>
5) Masatoshi Matsunami
A comprehensive reference transcriptome resource for the Iberian ribbed newt Pleurodeles waltl, an emerging model for developmental and regeneration biology
The 17th Asian Bioinformatics Consortium, Guiyang (China), Aug. 2019 <invited>
4) Masatoshi Matsunami
Phylogeography and phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander, Hynobius retardatus
Special Symposium to Celebrate over 50,000 citations of Saitou & Nei (1987)'s Neighbor-Joining Method paper, Mishima (Japan), Jun. 2018 <invited>
3) Masatoshi Matsunami
Morphology and transcriptome of phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido Salamander (Hynobius retardatus)
The 1849th Biological Symposium of National Institute of Genetics, Mishima (Japan), Nov. 2015 <invited>
2) Masatoshi Matsunami, Daiji Endo, Isaac Adeyemi Babarinde, Naruya Saitou, Hitoshi Suzuki, Manabu Onuma
Genome sequencing project of wood mouse (Apodemus speciosus) and its use for evolutionary study.
Vth International Wildlife Management Congress, Sapporo (Japan), Jul. 2015 <invited>
1) Masatoshi Matsunami, Osamu Kishida, Jun Kitano, Hirofumi Michimae, Toru Miura, Kinya Nishimura
Transcriptome analysis of predator- and prey-induced phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retadatus).
XIV Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, In Symposia “Phenotypic plasticity: mechanisms, ecology and evolution”, Lisbon (Portugal), Aug. 2013
<Poster Presentations>
14) Masatoshi Matsunami, Kae Koganebuchi, Mai Takigami, Yosuke Kawai, Tsuneo Kakuda, Noboru Adachi, Chiaki Katagiri, Takayuki Shinzato, Masami Takenaka, Naomi Doi, Minako Imamura, Shiro Maeda, Ryosuke Kimura, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama
The prehistoric peopling of the Ryukyu Archipelago
Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2023, P-949, Ferrara (Italy),Jul. 2023
13) Masatoshi Matsunami, Minako Imamura, Kae Koganebuchi, Ryosuke Kimura, Momoko Horikoshi, Chikashi Terao, Yoichiro Kamatani, Hajime Ishida, Shiro Maeda
Genome-wide association studies for metabolic traits in the Ryukyu populations
Annual Meeting of American Society of Human Genetics 2019, P2299, Houston (USA),Oct. 2019
12) Masatoshi Matsunami, Minako Imamura, Kae Koganebuchi, Ryosuke Kimura, Chikashi Terao, Yoichiro Kamatani, Hajime Ishida, Shiro Maeda
Okinawa Bioinformation Bank Project: understanding human genetic diversity in the Ryukyu Archipelago
Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2019, PO-659, Manchester (UK),Jul. 2019
11) Masatoshi Matsunami, Masafumi Nozawa, Yudai Masuoka, Ryutaro Suzuki, Kouhei Toga, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Kiyoto Maekawa, Shuji Shigenobu, Toru Muira
Caste-specific microRNA expression in termites: insights into social evolution.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2018, POA-056, Yokohama (Japan),Jul. 2018
10) Masatoshi Matsunami
Endocrine basis of predator- and prey-induced phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retadatus).
International Symposium "Amphibian development, regeneration, evolution and beyond", P4, Hiroshima (Japan),Mar. 2018
9) Masatoshi Matsunami, Osamu Kishida, Hirofumi Michimae, Toru Miura, Kinya Nishimura
Endocrine basis of predator- and prey-induced phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retadatus).
XVI Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, S16-P49, Groningen (Netherlands), Aug. 2017
8) Masatoshi Matsunami, Jun Kitano, Osamu Kishida, Hirofumi Michimae, Atsushi Nagano, Atsushi Toyoda, Asao Fujiyama, Naoki Osada, Toshihiro Endo, Toru Miura, Kinya Nishimura
Evolution of prey-induced phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido Salamander (Hynobius retardatus).
22nd International Congress of Zoology & 87th meeting of Zoological Society of Japan, P20, Okinawa (Japan), Nov. 2016.
7) Masatoshi Matsunami, Jun Kitano, Osamu Kishida, Hirofumi Michimae, Toru Miura, Kinya Nishimura
Morphology and transcriptome of phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido Salamander (Hynobius retardatus).
CDB Symposium 2016 “Size in Development: Growth, Shape and Allometry”, P36-B, Kobe (Japan), Mar. 2016.
6) Masatoshi Matsunami, Osamu Kishida, Jun Kitano, Masafumi Nozawa, Takeshi Igawa, Hirofumi Michimae, Toru Miura, Kinya Nishimura
Eco-evo-devo study of phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retardatus).
International Symposium “Frontiers in Amphibian Biology: Endangered Species Conservation and Genome Editing”, P-26, Hiroshima (Japan), Mar. 2014.
5) Masatoshi Matsunami, Naruya Saitou
Paralogous conserved non-coding sequences derived from the two-round whole genome duplications.
19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Poster-1-76, Kyoto (Japan), Jul. 2011
4) Masatoshi Matsunami, Naruya Saitou
Identification of conserved paralogous synteny blocks derived from the two-round whole genome duplications.
18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Poster-S13-28, Lyon (France), Jul. 2010
3) Masatoshi Matsunami, Kenta Sumiyama, Naruya Saitou
Evolution of conserved non-coding sequences within Hox clusters through the two-round whole duplications revealed by phylogenetic footprinting analysis.
17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Poster 2-101, Iowa (USA), Jun. 2009
2) Masatoshi Matsunami, Fumie Tatami, Megumi Kubo, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Keiichi Kawano, Makoto Demura
The comprehensive analysis of the color tuning residues of pharaonis holorhodopsin by site-saturation mutagenesis.
9th Hokkaido University - Seol National University Joint Symposium “Symposium on Structural Analysis of Biological Macromolecules”, Poster21, Sapporo (Japan), Jan. 2007
1) Masatoshi Matsunami, Fumie Tatami, Megumi Kubo, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Keiichi Kawano, Makoto Demura
The comprehensive analysis of the color tuning residues of pharaonis holorhodopsin by site-saturation mutagenesis.
5th East Asian Biophysics Symposium & 44th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, 2Poster-312, Okinawa (Japan), Nov. 2006