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| Faculty of Fisheries Sciences Marine Life Science Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics | Professor |
2000年北海道大学水産学部卒、同大学院を経て、2005年より同大学院にて学術研究員、博士研究員、2008年北海道大学北方生物圏フィールド科学センター博士研究員、2010年日本学術振興会海外特別研究員としてFisheries and Oceans Canada (カナダ海洋水産省) West Vancouver研究所、2012年より北海道大学大学院水産科学研究院勤務、現職。自然界にクローンが存在するドジョウやギンブナを対象として、特殊な配偶子形成に関する研究を行うとともに、サケ科魚類では産業利用に向けた交雑育種や倍数体育種の研究や精子凍結保存などの遺伝資源保存技術開発に関する研究を行っている。函館マリカルチャープロジェクトではキングサーモンの完全養殖技術開発に取り組んでいる。また、最近は養殖技術の一つであるアクアポニクス研究にも取り組み始めた。基礎研究と応用研究が両輪となった研究を展開することで幅広い視野をもち、多角的に問題解決に取り組みたい。
Researcher basic information
■ Degree■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
Researcher number
- 10400003
Research Keyword
- germ cell
- hybrid
- species identification
- Salmonidae
- hybridization
- meiosis
- polyploid
- clone
- chromosome set manipulation
- cryopreservation
- development and differentiation
- biotechnology
- loach
- ICSI
- Bachelor's degree program, School of Fisheries Sciences
- Master's degree program, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences
- Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences
Career
■ CareerCareer
- Apr. 2024 - Present
Hokkaido University, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Division of Marine Life Science, Laboratory of Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics, Professor, Japan - Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2024
Hokkaido University, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Division of Marine Life Science, Laboratory of Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics, Associate Professor - Sep. 2010 - Mar. 2012
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, West Vancouver Lab., Postdoctoral fellow - Apr. 2008 - Aug. 2010
Hokkaido University, Field Sicence Center for Northern Biosphere, Postdoctoral fellow - Jun. 2005 - Mar. 2008
Hokkaido University, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Postdoctoral fellow - Apr. 2005 - May 2005
Hokkaido University, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Postdoctoral fellow
- Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2005, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Doctoral course, Division of Marine Life Science, Japan
- Apr. 2000 - Mar. 2002, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Master course, Division of Marine Life Science, Japan
- Apr. 1996 - Mar. 2000, Hokkaido University, School of Fisheries Sciences, Department of Marine Biological Science, Japan
- Apr. 2025 - Present
日本学術振興会, 学術システム研究センター専門研究員, Government - 2019 - Present
函館市魚類等養殖推進協議会, 委員, Autonomy - Mar. 2023 - Feb. 2026
日本水産学会, シンポジウム企画委員会委員長, Society - Mar. 2021 - Feb. 2024
日本水産増殖学会, 会計幹事, Society - Feb. 2020 - Feb. 2024
日本水産学会, シンポジウム企画委員会委員 - Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2020
日本水産増殖学会, 編集委員, Society - Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2018
日本水産学会, 北海道支部庶務幹事, Society - Mar. 2014 - Feb. 2016
水産育種研究会, 庶務幹事, Society - 2014 - 2015
日本水産学会, 北海道支部若手の会幹事長, Society
Research activity information
■ Awards- Mar. 2017, The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, Progress Award
Loach as a model fish for developmental engineering and chromosome manipulation
Takafumi Fujimoto, Japan society, Japan - Mar. 2010, The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, Award of Excellence for a Scientific Paper (2009)
Sakao S;Fujimoto T;Kobayashi T;Yoshizaki G;Yamaha E;Arai K, Official journal, Japan
- Effects of pre-emergence thermal conditions on DNA methylation and growth trajectories in chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta.
Kogame, Y.; Urabe, H.; Fujimoto, T.
Aquaculture Science, 74, 1, 1, 9, Apr. 2026, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
English, Scientific journal - Dissociated blastomeres with high concentration of activin contribute endoderm lineage when transplanted into blastula in zebrafish (Danio rerio), and goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Urushibata, H.; Takahashi, E.; Fujimoto, T.; Arai, K.; Yamaha, E.
Bulletin of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 75, 2, 11, 26, Oct. 2025
English, Research institution - Dissociated blastomeres at the mid-blastula stage differentiate autonomously to ectoderm lineage under the cultured condition in goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Urushibata, H.; Takahashi, E.; Fujimoto, T.; Arai, K.; Yamaha, E.
Bulletin of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 75, 2, 1, 10, Oct. 2025
English, Research institution - Polyploid Formation Through Disrupting Mitotic Sister Chromatid Separation of Spermatogonia based on espl1 Heterozygous Knockout in Fish
Yunbang Zhang; Yihui Mei; Takafumi Fujimoto; Jian Gao; Yuwei Huang; Yuxuan Zheng; Rongyun Li; Yankun Guo; Nan Zhang; Yuxin Jiang; Lanhui Ouyang; Hanjun Jiang; Katsutoshi Arai; Xiaojuan Cao
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42, 8, msaf195, Oxford University Press (OUP), 30 Jul. 2025, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract
Polyploidy is a major driver of speciation and evolutionary changes in plants and animals. Production of unreduced gametes is considered as a main pathway for polyploid formation. However, the precise molecular mechanisms underlying unreduced gamete production, particularly those arising from mitotic defects of spermatogonia (SG)/oogonia, remain poorly understood. Here, a heterozygous espl1 (extra spindle pole bodies like 1) knockout line was generated in diploid loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) by CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Interestingly, we found about 90% diploids and 10% triploids in the progeny of espl1+/− males and wild-type (WT) diploid females. espl1+/− male could produce 1n sperms, along with a certain volume of unreduced sperms (2n). All offsprings of espl1+/−♀ and espl1+/+♂ were diploid, indicating that espl1+/− female produced normal ploidy eggs. Heterozygous espl1 deficiency impaired mitotic sister chromatid separation of some SG, resulting in their chromosome number doubling, thus causing the unreduced sperm production. The triploid loach (espl1+/+/−) from espl1+/+♀ mating with espl1+/−♂ could produce triploid sperms, which gave tetraploid heterozygotes by fertilization with haploid eggs. Resultant tetraploids yielded all-triploid progeny, when mated with WT diploid males. This study was extended to model fish zebrafish, where heterozygous espl1 knockout zebrafish produced about 5% unreduced diploid sperms. Here, we showed that the heterozygous loss of espl1 was enough to induce spermatogonial mitotic sister chromatid separation defects, causing the production of unreduced sperms. Notably, our results provide new strategies for the aquaculture-oriented polyploid breeding. - Programmed DNA elimination occurs during early gametogenesis in hybridogenetic hybrids from Hexagrammos genus
Dmitrij Dedukh; Kenta Nitsu; Takafumi Fujimoto; Shota Suzuki; Hiroyuki Munehara
Biology of Reproduction, 113, 3, 605, 614, Oxford University Press (OUP), 06 Jun. 2025, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract
Hybridogenesis is a unique type of reproduction found in hybrids, producing offspring that are partial (hemiclonal) genetic replicas of one parent. Along the southern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, two types of interspecies hybrids have been identified among three Hexagrammos species: Hexagrammos octogrammus (Hoc), H. otakii (Hot), and Hexagrammos agrammus (Hag). These hybrids are characterized by fertile females reproducing via hybridogenesis. During oogenesis of hybrids, the paternal haploid genome (Hag or Hot) is excluded, while only the maternal genome (Hoc) retains and transmits to gametes. This study investigates the mechanism of genome elimination in Hexagrammos hybrids through a comparative analysis of gonadal development in one-year-old juveniles and adult individuals of hybrids and their parental species. Comparative genomic hybridization on whole-mount gonads from Hoc/Hot and (Hoc/Hag) × Hag hybrids revealed gonocytes containing genomes of both parental species and gonocytes with only Hoc genome, suggesting that genome elimination occurs during early gametogenesis. In Hoc but not in Hot or Hag species, we observed heterochromatin foci enriched with H3K9me3 epigenetic histone modification. Similar foci were found in hybrids, confirming the presence of Hoc genome in their gonocytes. Furthermore, we detected micronuclei in the cytoplasm of gonocytes in parental species and hybrids. Although micronuclei were rare, their frequency was significantly higher in hybrids compared to parental species. Within micronuclei in Hoc/Hot and (Hoc/Hag) × Hag hybrids, we identified Hot and Hag chromosomes or their fragments, respectively. Thus, in Hexagrammos hybrids, genome elimination likely occurs during early gametogenic stages and is accompanied by micronuclei formation. - Changes in sperm quality and seminal plasma parameters of masu salmon Oncorhynchus masou during the breeding season and implications for cryopreservation success
Apatsa Pearson Chelewani; Taishi Shimabukuro; Eisuke Takahashi; Toshiya Nishimura; Takafumi Fujimoto
Fisheries Science, 91, 799, 809, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 23 May 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author, Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal - Tetraploidization overcomes male hybrid sterility in dojo loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Takafumi Fujimoto; Kiko Shibata; Yoshifumi Kawamura; Kotaro Kondo; Toshiya Nishimura; Katsutoshi Arai
Aquaculture, 608, 742731, 742731, Elsevier BV, May 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal - Generation of primordial germ cell-like cells by two germ plasm components, dnd1 and nanos3, in medaka (Oryzias latipes)
Toshiya Nishimura; Takafumi Fujimoto
iScience, 28, 3, 111977, 111977, Elsevier BV, Mar. 2025, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Masu salmon species complex relationships and sex chromosomes revealed from analyses of the masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou masou) genome assembly
Kris A Christensen; Anne-Marie Flores; Jay Joshi; Kiko Shibata; Takafumi Fujimoto; Ben F Koop; Robert H Devlin
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 15, 2, jkae278, Oxford University Press (OUP), Feb. 2025, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract
Masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) are the only Pacific salmon endemic to Asia. Some researchers prefer to categorize these salmon into four subspecies (masu – O. m. masou, amago – O. m. ishikawae, Biwa – O. m. subsp., and Formosan – O. m. formosanus), while others prefer individual species designations. Even though the masu salmon fishery is thousands of years old, classification of the diversity within the masu salmon species complex remains elusive. In this study, a genetic map and reference genome assembly were generated for one species/subspecies (masu) to provide resources for understanding the species complex. In O. m. masou, the sex chromosome was determined to be chromosome 7. Resequenced genomes from two other putative subspecies (amago and Biwa) provided evidence that they do not share the same sex chromosome. Principal component and admixture analyses clustered the amago and Biwa salmon close together. This supported previous findings of a close relationship between amago and Biwa salmon and a more distant relationship to masu salmon for both. Additional analyses of the masu salmon species complex will benefit from using the new reference genome assembly. - The size of the sperm head influences the gynogenetic success in teleost fish
Moe Takeuchi; Yoshifumi Kawamura; Tomomitsu Arai; Shigeho Ijiri; Eisuke Takahashi; Etsuro Yamaha; Takafumi Fujimoto; Toshiya Nishimura
Aquaculture, 596, 741768, 741768, Elsevier BV, Feb. 2025, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Isogenic fish sperm produced by transplanting gynogenetic haploid-derived germ cells
Tsuyoshi Nagasaka; Takafumi Fujimoto; Taiju Saito; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
Biology of Reproduction, 112, 3, 572, 582, Oxford University Press (OUP), 06 Jan. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal, Abstract
Artificially induced haploidy is lethal in vertebrates, although it is useful for genetic screening and genome editing due to its single set of genomes. Haploid embryonic stem (ES) cell lines in mammals contribute to genetic studies and the production of gametes derived from haploid ES cells. In fish breeding, doubled haploids (DHs) induced by artificially induced gynogenesis are used to generate isogenic gametes for cloning purposes. However, gametes have not been directly differentiated from artificially induced haploid cells, even though haploid ES cell lines have been established in medaka. Here, we aimed to demonstrate that fertile haploid sperm with identical genotypes could be differentiated in germline chimeras in zebrafish, wherein primordial germ cells (PGCs) derived from an inviable haploid embryo were transplanted into sterilized recipient embryos. Haploid spermatogonia differentiated from haploid PGCs in germline chimeras, and genome doubling occurred in haploid spermatogonia with one set of chromosomes, which could not pair with counterpart homologs to form bivalents during meiosis. Subsequently, meiosis produced isogenic haploid gametes because identical elements were exchanged between chromosomes doubled from the haploid set during recombination. Consequently, haploid PGCs can survive beyond embryogenesis and potentially differentiate into fertile sperm. - Optimizing the post-thaw quality of cryopreserved masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) sperm: Evaluating the effects of antioxidant-supplemented extender
Apatsa Pearson Chelewani; Eisuke Takahashi; Toshiya Nishimura; Takafumi Fujimoto
Aquaculture, 593, 741332, 741332, Elsevier BV, Dec. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
English, Scientific journal - Sterilization of fish through adaptable gRNAs targeting dnd1 using CRISPR-Cas13d system
Toshiya Nishimura; Eisuke Takahashi; Takafumi Fujimoto
Aquaculture, 593, 741269, 741269, Elsevier BV, Dec. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
English, Scientific journal - Development of a repetitive DNA marker for identification of the exotic large-scale loach introduced to Japan
Masamichi Kuroda; Noriko Azuma; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
Fisheries Science, 90, 1, 53, 64, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Jan. 2024, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Cryopreservation of masu salmon sperm using glucose-methanol extender and seminal plasma biomarkers related to post-thaw sperm motility
Takafumi Fujimoto; Takahisa Kaneyasu; Mitsuru Endoh; Yuya Kogame; Joanna Nynca; Andrzej Ciereszko; Eisuke Takahashi; Etsuro Yamaha; Kiyoshi Naruse; Katsutoshi Arai
Aquaculture, 557, 738305, 738305, Elsevier BV, Aug. 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal - An assessment of hybridization potential between Atlantic and Pacific salmon
Devlin, R; Biagi, C; Sakhrani, D; Fujimoto, T; Leggatt, R; Smith, J; Yesaki, T
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 79, 4, 670, 676, 03 Feb. 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Internationally co-authored], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal - Nucleotide Sequence and Chromosome Mapping of 5S Ribosomal DNA from the Dojo Loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Kiko Shibata; Masamichi Kuroda; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai; Takafumi Fujimoto
Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 162, 10, 570, 578, S. Karger AG, 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
English, Scientific journal, There are 2 genetically divergent groups in the dojo loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus: A and B. Although most wild-type diploids reproduce sexually, clonal diploids (clonal loach) reproduce gynogenetically in certain areas. Clonal loaches produce unreduced isogenic eggs by premeiotic endomitosis, and such diploid eggs develop gynogenetically following activation by the sperm of sympatric wild-type diploids. These clonal loaches have presumably arisen from past hybridization events between 2 different ancestors. The genomic differences between these 2 groups have not been completely elucidated. Thus, new genetic and cytogenetic markers are required to distinguish between these 2 groups. Here, we compared the 5S rDNA region to develop markers for the identification of different dojo loach groups. The nontranscribed sequence (NTS) of the 5S rDNA was highly polymorphic and group-specific. NTSs were found in clades of 2 different groups in clonal loaches. In contrast, we did not find any group-specific sequences in the coding region of the 5S rRNA gene. Sequences were located near the centromere of the short arm of the largest submetacentric chromosomes in groups A and B and clonal loaches. Thus, the 5S rDNA of the dojo loach is conserved at the chromosomal location. Whereas, the sequences of the NTS regions evolved group-specifically in the dojo loach, with the sequences of both groups being conserved in clonal loaches. - Improvement in group identification of dojo loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism
Masamichi Kuroda; Takafumi Fujimoto; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
Conservation Genetics Resources, 13, 4, 457, 463, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Dec. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Skewed genetic sex ratio in reciprocal hybrids between pink salmon and masu salmon
FUMIKA SHIMA; REI ASANUMA; TAKAHISA KANEYASU; MASAKI ICHIMURA; EISUKE TAKAHASHI; ETSURO YAMAHA; TAKAFUMI FUJIMOTO; KATSUTOSHI ARAI
NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI, 87, 5, 473, 482, Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, 15 Sep. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Scientific journal - Control of developmental speed in zebrafish embryos using different incubation temperatures
Hirotaro Urushibata; Kazuaki Sasaki; Eisuke Takahashi; Toshikatsu Hanada; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuro Yamaha
Zebrafish, 18, 5, 316, 325, Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 03 Sep. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Chromosome set manipulation and genome manipulation in aquaculture
Takafumi Fujimoto; Toshiya Nishimura
Nippon Shokuhin Kagaku Kogaku Kaishi, 68, 7, 277, 289, Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology, 15 Jul. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
Japanese, Scientific journal - Diploid and aneuploid sperm in tetraploid ginbuna, Carassius auratus langsdorfii
Fumi Yamaguchi; Takafumi Fujimoto; Hiroko Suzuki; Hideki Tanaka; Masaru Murakami; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
Theriogenology, 172, 95, 105, Elsevier BV, 08 Jun. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, Ginbuna (Carassius auratus langsdorfii (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)) occur in diploid, triploid, and tetraploid forms in wild populations. Diploid females reproduce bisexually, whereas polyploid (triploid and tetraploid) females reproduce gynogenetically with no contribution from sperm nuclei. However, tetraploid males produce diploid sperm. The mechanism responsible for the differences in egg and sperm ploidy has not been elucidated as tetraploid males are rare in wild populations. Here, we aimed to characterize the types of sperm and elucidate the mechanism of spermatogenesis in ginbuna. In the present study, we artificially produced tetraploid males by crossbreeding triploid ginbuna females with diploid goldfish (Carassius auratusauratus) males via accidental incorporation of sperm nuclei. We then examined spermatogenesis to reveal the process by which reduced diploid sperm are generated from tetraploid germ cells. DNA fingerprinting by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR indicated that the tetraploid progeny had a paternally derived genome. For the tetraploid male sperm, there were narrow (N-type) and broad (B-type) flow cytometrical histograms. The N-type were determined to be diploid with a low coefficient of variation (CV) by flow cytometry. The B-type were found to be aneuploid (hypodiploid to hexaploid) with a high CV. The head sizes of B-type sperm were variable, whereas those of the N-type sperm were uniform. Computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) revealed that both the haploid and diploid B-type sperm were weakly motile compared with the haploid sperm of goldfish and the diploid N-type sperm of tetraploid males. Bivalents and various multivalents were observed in the meiotic configurations of diploid spermatogenesis. In aneuploid spermatogenesis, most of the chromosomes were unpaired univalents and there were very few bivalents. Our findings provide empirical evidence for two different types of spermatogenesis in tetraploid C. a. langsdorfii males. Meiotic synapses might explain the observed differences in the ploidy status of the two sperm types. - FISH identifies chromosome differentiation between contemporary genomes of wild types and the ancestral genome of unisexual clones of dojo loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Masamichi Kuroda; Kiko Shibata; Takafumi Fujimoto; Masaru Murakami; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 161, 3-4, 178, 186, S. Karger AG, 10 May 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, In dojo loach (<i>Misgurnus anguillicaudatus</i>), although most wild types are gonochoristic diploids that are genetically differentiated into 2 groups, A and B, clonal lineages appear in certain localities. Clonal loaches have been considered to have hybrid origins between the 2 groups by a series of genetic studies. In this study, using FISH with a newly developed probe (ManDra-A), we identified 26 (1 pair of metacentric and 12 pairs of telocentric chromosomes) of 50 diploid chromosomes in contemporary wild-type group A loach. In contrast, ManDra-A signals were not detected on metacentric chromosomes derived from the ancestral group A of clonal loach. The FISH results clearly showed the presence of certain differentiations in metacentric chromosomes between ancestral and contemporary group A loach. Two-color FISH with ManDra-A and group B-specific ManDra (renamed ManDra-B) probes reconfirmed the hybrid origin of clones by identifying chromosomes from both groups A and B in metaphases. Our results showed the hybrid origin of clonally reproducing fish and the possibility that chromosomal differentiation between ancestral and contemporary fish can affect gametogenesis. In meiotic spermatocytes of sex-reversed clones, ManDra-A, and not ManDra-B, signals were detected in 12 out of 50 bivalents. Thus, the results further support the previous conclusion that clonal gametogenesis was assured by pairing between sister chromosomes duplicated from each ancestral chromosome from group A or B. Our study deepens the knowledge about the association between clonality and hybridity in unisexual vertebrates. - Reproductive strategies and chromosomal aberrations affect survival in the Rivuliid fish Hypsolebias sertanejo
Mariana Machado Evangelista; Elizabeth Romagosa; Diógenes Henrique Siqueira-Silva; George Shigueki Yasui; Takafumi Fujimoto; José Augusto Senhorini
Zygote, 29, 1, 20, 26, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021
English, Scientific journal - Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes in genetically distinct groups of the dojo loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Kiko Shibata; Duong Thuy Yen; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 5, 4, 3810, 3812, Informa UK Limited, 01 Oct. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - Developmental potential of somatic and germ cells of hybrids between Carassius auratus females and Hemigrammocypris rasborella males
Yuki Naya; Tomoka Matsunaga; Yu Shimizu; Eisuke Takahashi; Fumika Shima; Mitsuru Endoh; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuro Yamaha
Zygote, 28, 6, 470, 481, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 10 Aug. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal,Summary
The cause of hybrid sterility and inviability has not been analyzed in the fin-fish hybrid, although large numbers of hybridizations have been carried out. In this study, we produced allo-diploid hybrids by cross-fertilization between female goldfish (Carassius auratus ) and male golden venus chub (Hemigrammocypris rasborella ). Inviability of these hybrids was due to breakage of the enveloping layer during epiboly or due to malformation with serious cardiac oedema around the hatching stage. Spontaneous allo-triploid hybrids with two sets of the goldfish genome and one set of the golden venus chub genome developed normally and survived beyond the feeding stage. This improved survival was confirmed by generating heat-shock-induced allo-triploid hybrids that possessed an extra goldfish genome. When inviable allo-diploid hybrid cells were transplanted into goldfish host embryos at the blastula stage, these embryos hatched normally, incorporating the allo-diploid cells. These allo-diploid hybrid cells persisted, and were genetically detected in a 6-month-old fish. In contrast, primordial germ cells taken from allo-diploid hybrids and transplanted into goldfish hosts at the blastula stage had disappeared by 10 days post-fertilization, even under chimeric conditions. In allo-triploid hybrid embryos, germ cells proliferated in the gonad, but had disappeared by 10 weeks post-fertilization. These results showed that while hybrid germ cells are inviable even in chimeric conditions, hybrid somatic cells remain viable. - Ploidy manipulation using diploid sperm of a wild tetraploid ginbuna (Japanese silver crucian carp, Carassius auratus langsdorfii)
Fujimoto, Takafumi; Fujimoto, Suzu; Murakami, Masaru; Yamaha, Etsuro; Arai, Katsutoshi
Bulletin of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 70, 1, 103, 111, Aug. 2020, [Lead author, Corresponding author]
English, Research institution - Isogenic lines in fish--a critical review
Roman Franěk; Abdul Rasheed Baloch; Vojtěch Kašpar; Taiju Saito; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai; Martin Pšenička
Reviews in Aquaculture, 12, 1412, 1434, Aug. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Hybrid between Danio rerio female and Danio nigrofasciatus male produces aneuploid sperm with limited fertilization capacity
Mitsuru Endoh; Fumika Shima; Miloš Havelka; Rei Asanuma; Etsuro Yamaha; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
PLoS ONE, 15, 5, e0233885, e0233885, Public Library of Science (PLoS), 29 May 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal - High percentages of larval tetraploids in the yellowtail tetra Astyanax altiparanae induced by heat-shock: The first case in Neotropical characins
Nivaldo Ferreira do Nascimento; Matheus Pereira-Santos; Nycolas Levy-Pereira; Paulo Sérgio Monzani; Daiane Niedzielski; Takafumi Fujimoto; José Augusto Senhorini; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi; George Shigueki Yasui
Aquaculture, 520, Elsevier B.V., 15 Apr. 2020
English, Scientific journal - Morphological differences in embryos of goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) under different incubation temperatures.
Urushibata, H; Takahashi, E; Shimizu, Y; Miyazaki, T; Fujimoto, T; Arai, K; Yamaha, E
Intenational Journal of Developmental Biolog, 63, 11-12, 597, 604, Dec. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, The goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) is a useful species for embryonic micromanipulations because of its large egg size and wide temperature tolerance. Here, we describe in detail the rate of development and morphological characteristics of goldfish embryos incubated at temperatures between 10 °C and 30 °C. The cleavage speed increased rapidly as temperature increased. Synchronized cell divisions occurred at 131 min intervals at 10 °C, at 33 min intervals at 20 °C, and at 19 min intervals at 30 °C during the cleavage period. The rate of hatched abnormal embryos significantly increased at temperatures of 26 °C and above, while there was no change in the number of abnormal embryos at temperatures less than 24 °C. Moreover, the blastomeres around the center of the blastodisc rose in the direction of the animal pole at temperatures less than 14 °C. At the lower temperatures, clusters of maternally-supplied germplasm were visualized both at the ends of the first three cleavage furrows and at the border between the lower and upper tiers at the 16- to 32-cell stage, with injection of artificial mRNA and vasa in situ hybridization. This study showed that temperature affects not only developmental speed but also the shape of the blastodisc and the distribution of maternally-supplied materials in the blastodisc. By controlling the temperature, it is possible for researchers to prepare many stages of embryos and shapes of the blastodisc from a single batch of eggs. - Aberrant meiotic configurations cause sterility in clone-origin triploid and Inter-group hybrid males of the dojo loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Masamichi Kuroda; Takafumi Fujimoto; Masaru Murakami; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 158, 1, 46, 54, Jun. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
English, Scientific journal, Gonochoristic wild-type dojo loaches (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) are diploid (2n = 50) and reproduce bisexually. However, sympatric clonal diploids generate unreduced diploid isogenic eggs that develop gynogenetically. Clone-origin triploidy arises following the incorporation of a haploid wild-type sperm nucleus into the diploid egg. Triploid females produce fertile haploid eggs by meiotic hybridogenesis, while triploid males are sterile. Clonal loaches arose from past hybridization event(s) between genetically diverse groups, A and B. Artificial hybrid females between the 2 groups produce unreduced and/or aneuploid eggs, but the hybrid males are sterile. In this study using FISH, we analyzed chromosome pairing in meiotic cells of clone-origin triploid and inter-group hybrid males to clarify the cytogenetic mechanisms underlying the male-specific sterility. We used a repetitive sequence probe to identify group B-derived chromosomes and a 5.8S + 28S rDNA probe to identify pairs of homologous chromosomes. We found that asynapsis and irregular synapsis occur in triploid and hybrid males containing 2 different genomes and that this may cause the formation of sterile germ cells. These results will help us to understand hybrid sterility from the viewpoint of synapsis behavior. - Preparing a fish embryo (Prochilodus lineatus) for staging, chorion removal and PGC traceabilityPreparation of a fish embryo for micromanipulation: staging of development, removal of chorions and traceability of PGC in Prochilodus lineatus
Geovanna C.Z. Coelho; Isaac S. Yo; Tatiana M. Mira-López; Paulo S. Monzani; Dilberto R. Arashiro; Takafumi Fujimoto; José A. Senhorini; George S. Yasui
International Journal of Developmental Biology, 63, 1/2, 57, 65, Jan. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Intraooplasmic injection of a multiple number of sperm to induce androgenesis and polyploidy in the dojo loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Teleostei: Cobitidae)
George Shigueki Yasui; Taiju Saito; Yan Zhao; Takafumi Fujimoto; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
Zygote, 26, 408, 416, Oct. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Clonal reproduction assured by sister chromosome pairing in dojo loach, a teleost fish
Masamichi Kuroda; Takafumi Fujimoto; Masaru Murakami; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
Chromosome Research, 26, 4, 1, 11, Springer Netherlands, 07 Jun. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Triploid or hybrid tetra: Which is the ideal sterile host for surrogate technology?
Lucas Henrique Piva; Diógenes Henrique de Siqueira-Silva; Caio Augusto Gomes Goes; Takafumi Fujimoto; Taiju Saito; Letícia Veroni Dragone; José Augusto Senhorini; Fabio Porto-Foresti; José Bento Sterman Ferraz; George Shigueki Yasui
Theriogenology, 108, 239, 244, Elsevier Inc., 01 Mar. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Short-term storage of the oocytes affects the ploidy status in the yellowtail tetra Astyanax altiparanae
Matheus Pereira Dos Santos; Nivaldo Ferreira Do Nascimento; George Shigueki Yasui; Nycolas Levy Pereira; Takafumi Fujimoto; José Augusto Senhorini; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi
Zygote, 26, 1, 89, 98, Cambridge University Press, 01 Feb. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Genome incompatibility between rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and sea trout (Salmo trutta) and induction of the interspecies gynogenesis
Marcin Polonis; Takafumi Fujimoto; Stefan Dobosz; Tomasz Zalewski; Konrad Ocalewicz
Journal of Applied Genetics, 59, 1, 91, 97, Springer Verlag, 01 Feb. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Improved Procedure for Induction of the Androgenetic Doubled Haploids in Zebrafish
Mitsuru Endoh; Takafumi Fujimoto; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
ZEBRAFISH, 15, 1, 33, 44, Feb. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Grooves surrounding the micropyle decrease the inseminating dose in fish
Matheus Pereira-Santos; Eduardo Shimoda; Andre Furugen Cesar de Andrade; Luciano Andrade Silva; Takafumi Fujimoto; Jose Augusto Senhorini; George Shigueki Yasui; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi
ZYGOTE, 25, 6, 731, 739, Dec. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - The effect of temperature on the initial development of Brycon amazonicus Spix & Agassiz, 1829 as tool for micromanipulation of embryos
Regiane Cristina da Silva; Matheus Pereira dos Santos; Jose Augusto Senhorini; Maria do Carmo Faria Paes; Fernanda Nogueira Valentin; Takafumi Fujimoto; Nivaldo Ferreira do Nascimento; George Shigueki Yasui; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi
ZYGOTE, 25, 5, 637, 651, Oct. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Triploid Induction in the Yellowtail Tetra, Astyanax altiparanae, Using Temperature Shock: Tools for Conservation and Aquaculture
Nadya Soares de Macedo Adamov; Nivaldo Ferreira do Nascimento; Elayna Cristina Silva Maciel; Matheus Pereira-Santos; Jose Augusto Senhorini; Leonardo Luiz Calado; Mariana Machado Evangelista; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi; Alan Hertz Marin Guerrero; Takafumi Fujimoto; George Shigueki Yasui
JOURNAL OF THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY, 48, 5, 741, 750, Oct. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - A Flow Cytometry Protocol to Estimate DNA Content in the Yellowtail Tetra Astyanax altiparanae
Pedro L. P. Xavier; Jose A. Senhorini; Matheus Pereira-Santos; Takafumi Fujimoto; Eduardo Shimoda; Luciano A. Silva; Silvio A. dos Santos; George S. Yasui
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS, 8, 131, Sep. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Development of nuclear DNA markers to characterize genetically diverse groups of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and its closely related species
Takafumi Fujimoto; Aya Yamada; Yukihiro Kodo; Kohei Nakaya; Michiko Okubo-Murata; Taiju Saito; Kazuto Ninomiya; Michiko Inaba; Masamichi Kuroda; Katsutoshi Arai; Masaru Murakami
FISHERIES SCIENCE, 83, 5, 743, 756, Sep. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Stereological analysis of gonads from diploid and triploid fish yellowtail tetra Astyanax altiparanae (Garutti & Britski) in laboratory conditions
Nivaldo Ferreira do Nascimento; Diogenes Henrique de Siqueira-Silva; Matheus Pereira-Santos; Takafumi Fujimoto; Jose Augusto Senhorini; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi; George Shigueki Yasui
ZYGOTE, 25, 4, 537, 544, Aug. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Spontaneous polyploidization in critically endangered Acipenser mikadoi
Milos Havelka; He Zhou; Seishi Hagihara; Masaki Ichimura; Takafumi Fujimoto; Etsuro Yamaha; Shinji Adachi; Katsutoshi Arai
FISHERIES SCIENCE, 83, 4, 587, 595, Jul. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Nuclear DNA markers for identification of Beluga and Sterlet sturgeons and their interspecific Bester hybrid
Milos Havelka; Takafumi Fujimoto; Seishi Hagihara; Shinji Adachi; Katsutoshi Arai
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 7, 1694, May 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Comparison of Egg Envelope Thickness in Teleosts and its Relationship to the Sites of ZP Protein Synthesis
Kaori Sano; Mari Kawaguchi; Keita Katano; Kenji Tomita; Mayu Inokuchi; Tatsuki Nagasawa; Junya Hiroi; Toyoji Kaneko; Takashi Kitagawa; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai; Masaru Tanaka; Shigeki Yasumasu
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION, 328, 3, 240, 258, May 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Novel decaplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of scallop species with species-specific primers targeting highly variable 5 end of the 16S rRNA gene
Alan Marin; Claudio Villegas-Llerena; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
AQUACULTURE RESEARCH, 48, 3, 920, 930, Mar. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Growth, fatty acid composition, and reproductive parameters of diploid and triploid yellowtail tetra Astyanax altiparanae
Nivaldo Ferreira do Nascimento; Matheus Pereira-Santos; Lucas Henrique Piva; Breno Manzini; Takafumi Fujimoto; Jose Augusto Senhorini; George Shigueki Yasui; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi
AQUACULTURE, 471, 163, 171, Mar. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Morphology of gametes, post-fertilization events and the effect of temperature on the embryonic development of Astyanax altiparanae (Teleostei, Characidae)
Matheus Pereira dos Santos; George Shigueki Yasui; Pedro Luiz Porfirio Xavier; Nadya Soares de Macedo Adamov; Nivaldo Ferreira do Nascimento; Takafumi Fujimoto; Jose Augusto Senhorini; Laura Satiko Okada Nakaghi
ZYGOTE, 24, 6, 795, 807, Dec. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Utility of different sugar extenders for cryopreservation and post-thaw storage of sperm from Salmonidae species
Joanna Nynca; Sylwia Judycka; Ewa Liszewska; Stefan Dobosz; Joanna Grudniewska; Katsutoshi Arai; Takafumi Fujimoto; Andrzej Ciereszko
AQUACULTURE, 464, 340, 348, Nov. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Microsatellite loci in the tetraploid spined loach, cobitis biwae, and cross-species amplification in four related species
O. Jablonska; A. Mar�n; K. Kowalewska; T. Fujimoto; K. Arai
Genetics and Molecular Research, 15, 3, gmr.15039027, Fundacao de Pesquisas Cientificas de Ribeirao Preto, 23 Sep. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Non-motile tetraploid spermatozoa of Misgurnus loach hybrids
Yan Zhao; Takafumi Fujimoto; Martin Psenicka; Taiju Saito; Katsutoshi Arai
FISHERIES SCIENCE, 82, 1, 127, 135, Jan. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Hybrid origin of gynogenetic clones and the introgression of their mitochondrial genome into sexual diploids through meiotic hybridogenesis in the loach, Misgurnus anguillicuadatus
Aya Yamada; Yukihiro Kodo; Masaru Murakami; Masamichi Kuroda; Takao Aoki; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Pysiology, 323, 9, 593, 606, Nov. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - The mitochondrial genomes of Pecten albicans and Pecten maximus (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) reveal a novel gene arrangement with low genetic differentiation
Alan Marin; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY, 61, 208, 217, Aug. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Generation of clonal zebrafish line by androgenesis without egg irradiation
Jilun Hou; Takafumi Fujimoto; Taiju Saito; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 5, 13346, Aug. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Improvement of gamete quality and its short-term storage: an approach for biotechnology in laboratory fish
G. S. Yasui; J. A. Senhorini; E. Shimoda; M. Pereira-Santos; L. S. O. Nakaghi; T. Fujimoto; L. Arias-Rodriguez; L. A. Silva
ANIMAL, 9, 3, 464, 470, Mar. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - The variable 5' end of the 16S rRNA gene as a novel barcoding tool for scallops (Bivalvia, Pectinidae)
Alan Marin; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
FISHERIES SCIENCE, 81, 1, 73, 81, Jan. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Mitochondrial genome of the Peruvian scallop Argopecten purpuratus (Bivalvia: Pectinidae)
Alan Marin; Ruben Alfaro; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA, 26, 5, 726, 727, 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Comparison of spermatozoa parameters, fine structures, and energy-related factors among tetraploid, hyper-tetraploid, and hyper-triploid loaches (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
Yan Zhao; Taiju Saito; Martin Psenicka; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART A-ECOLOGICAL GENETICS AND PHYSIOLOGY, 321, 4, 198, 206, Apr. 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Androgenetic doubled haploids induced without irradiation of eggs in loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
Jilun Hou; Taiju Saito; Takafumi Fujimoto; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
AQUACULTURE, 420, S57, S63, Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Growth and endocrine effect of growth hormone transgene dosage in diploid and triploid coho salmon
Robert H. Devlin; Dionne Sakhrani; Carlo A. Biagi; Jack L. Smith; Takafumi Fujimoto; Brian Beckman
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY, 196, 112, 122, Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Genetic characterization of the progeny of a pair of the tetraploid silver crucian carp Carassius auratus langsdorfii
Jie Dong; Masaru Murakami; Takafumi Fujimoto; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
FISHERIES SCIENCE, 79, 6, 935, 941, Nov. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Rapid species identification of fresh and processed scallops by multiplex PCR
Alan Marin; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
FOOD CONTROL, 32, 2, 472, 476, Aug. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Heat-shock-induced tetraploid and diploid/tetraploid mosaic in pond loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Takafumi Fujimoto; Suzu Sakao; Kouzou Oshima; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL, 21, 4, 769, 781, Aug. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Production of androgenetic diploid loach by cold-shock of eggs fertilized with diploid sperm
Jilun Hou; Takafumi Fujimoto; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
THERIOGENOLOGY, 80, 2, 125, 130, Jul. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Genetic structure of the Peruvian scallop Argopecten purpuratus inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA variation
Alan Marin; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
MARINE GENOMICS, 9, 1, 8, Mar. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Molecular cytogenetic study on the ploidy status in Acipenser mikadoi
H. Zhou; T. Fujimoto; S. Adachi; S. Abe; E. Yamaha; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, 29, 1, 51, 55, Feb. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Genomic Constitution and Atypical Reproduction in Polyploid and Unisexual Lineages of the Misgurnus Loach, a Teleost Fish
K. Arai; T. Fujimoto
CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH, 140, 2-4, 226, 240, 2013, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, Scientific journal - Vitrification of primordial germ cells using whole embryos for gene-banking in loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
D. Inoue; T. Fujimoto; Y. Kawakami; G. S. Yasui; E. Yamaha; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, 28, 6, 919, 924, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Motility, morphology, mitochondria and ATP content of diploid spermatozoa from sex-reversed clonal diploid and neo-tetraploid loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Y. Zhao; M. Psenicka; T. Fujimoto; T. Saito; G. S. Yasui; E. Yamaha; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, 28, 6, 1006, 1012, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Cryopreservation of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-labeled primordial germ cells with GFP fused to the 3 ' untranslated region of the nanos gene by vitrification of Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) somite stage embryos
Y. Kawakami; M. Ishihara; T. Saito; T. Fujimoto; S. Adachi; K. Arai; E. Yamaha
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE, 90, 12, 4256, 4265, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Germ cells are not the primary factor for sexual fate determination in goldfish
Rie Goto; Taiju Saito; Takahiro Takeda; Takafumi Fujimoto; Misae Takagi; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuto Yamaha
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 370, 1, 98, 109, Oct. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - The effect of ions and cryoprotectants upon sperm motility and fertilization success in the loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
George Shigueki Yasui; Takafumi Fujimoto; Lenin Arias-Rodriguez; Yasuaki Takagi; Katsutoshi Arai
AQUACULTURE, 344, 147, 152, May 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Fish Breeding and Chromosome Set Manipulation
Fujimoto, T; Arai, K
水産育種, 41, 2, 111, 123, 水産育種研究会, Mar. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Scientific journal - Isolation and characterization of 12 microsatellite loci in the Peruvian scallop Argopecten purpuratus and cross-species amplification in other scallop species (family Pectinidae)
Alan Marin; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
CONSERVATION GENETICS RESOURCES, 4, 1, 179, 182, Mar. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Technical note: Viability and motility of vitrified/thawed primordial germ cell isolated from common carp (Cyprinus carpio) somite embryos
Y. Kawakami; T. Saito; T. Fujimoto; R. Goto-Kazeto; E. Takahashi; S. Adachi; K. Arai; E. Yamaha
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE, 90, 2, 495, 500, Feb. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Cold-shock eliminates female nucleus in fertilized eggs to induce androgenesis in the loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), a teleost fish
Kagayaki Morishima; Takafumi Fujimoto; Mami Sato; Ayako Kawae; Yan Zhao; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY, 11, 116, Nov. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Production of loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) germ-line chimera using transplantation of primordial germ cells isolated from cryopreserved blastomeres
G. S. Yasui; T. Fujimoto; S. Sakao; E. Yamaha; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE, 89, 8, 2380, 2388, Aug. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Visualization and motility of primordial germ cells using green fluorescent protein fused to 3'UTR of common carp nanos-related gene
Yutaka Kawakami; Taiju Saito; Takafumi Fujimoto; Rie Goto-Kazeto; Eisuke Takahashi; Shinji Adachi; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuro Yamaha
AQUACULTURE, 317, 1-4, 245, 250, Jul. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Genome size variation estimated by flow cytometry in Acipenser mikadoi, Huso dauricus in relation to other species of Acipenseriformes
H. Zhou; T. Fujimoto; S. Adachi; E. Yamaha; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, 27, 2, 484, 491, Apr. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Sexual dimorphism of gonadal structure and gene expression in germ cell-deficient loach, a teleost fish
Takafumi Fujimoto; Toshiya Nishimura; Rie Goto-Kazeto; Yutaka Kawakami; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 107, 40, 17211, 17216, Oct. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Primordial germ cell in teleost fish with special references to its specification and migration
E. Yamaha; R. Goto-Kazeto; T. Saito; Y. Kawakami; T. Fujimoto; S. Adachi; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, 26, 5, 816, 822, Oct. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Generation of germ-line chimera zebrafish using primordial germ cells isolated from cultured blastomeres and cryopreserved embryoids
Yutaka Kawakami; Rie Goto-Kazeto; Taiju Saito; Takafumi Fujimoto; Shogo Higaki; Yoshiyuki Takahashi; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuro Yamaha
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 54, 10, 1493, 1501, 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Inter-species transplantation and migration of primordial germ cells in cyprinid fish
Taiju Saito; Rie Goto-Kazeto; Takafumi Fujimoto; Yutaka Kawakami; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuro Yamaha
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 54, 10, 1481, 1486, 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Developmental potential of embryonic cells in a nucleocytoplasmic hybrid formed using a goldfish haploid nucleus and loach egg cytoplasm
Takafumi Fujimoto; Taiju Saito; Suzu Sakao; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuro Yamaha
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 54, 5, 827, 835, 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Reproductive capacity of neo-tetraploid loaches produced using diploid spermatozoa from a natural tetraploid male
Takafumi Fujimoto; George Shigueki Yasui; Mayumi Hayakawa; Suzu Sakao; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
AQUACULTURE, 308, Suppl.1, S133, S139, 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Restoration of the loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, from cryopreserved diploid sperm and induced androgenesis
George Shigueki Yasui; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
AQUACULTURE, 308, Suppl.1, S140, S144, 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Cutting edge of chromosome manipulation for aquaculture and conservation of Salmonids.
Arai, K; Sakao, S; Fujimoto, T; Yamaha, E
Journal of the National Taiwan Museum, 14, 49, 59, 2010
English, International conference proceedings - A sperm cryopreservation protocol for the loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and its applicability for other related species
George Shigueki Yasui; Lenin Arias-Rodriguez; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE, 116, 3-4, 335, 345, Dec. 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Artificially induced tetraploid masu salmon have the ability to form primordial germ cells
Suzu Sakao; Takafumi Fujimoto; Terumasa Kobayashi; Goro Yoshizaki; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
FISHERIES SCIENCE, 75, 4, 993, 1000, Jul. 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Chromosome Doubling in Early Spermatogonia Produces Diploid Spermatozoa in a Natural Clonal Fish
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa; Kagayaki Morishima; Takafumi Fujimoto; Taiju Saito; Tohru Kobayashi; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION, 80, 5, 973, 979, May 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE METHOD FOR CRYOPRESERVATION OF FISH SPERM COMBINING STRAW AND POWDERED DRY ICE
George Shigueki Yasui; Lenin Arias-Rodriguez; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai
CRYOLETTERS, 29, 5, 383, 390, Sep. 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Ploidy manipulation using diploid sperm in the loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus: a review
H. Yoshikawa; K. Morishima; T. Fujimoto; L. Arias-Rodriguez; E. Yamaha; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, 24, 4, 410, 414, Aug. 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Genetic and reproductive potential of spermatozoa of diploid and triploid males obtained from interspecific hybridization of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus female with M. mizolepis male
T. Fujimoto; G. S. Yasui; H. Yoshikawa; E. Yamaha; K. Arai
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, 24, 4, 430, 437, Aug. 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Diploidized eggs reprogram adult somatic cell nuclei to pluripotency in nuclear transfer in medaka fish (Oryzias latipes)
Ekaterina Bubenshchikova; Elena Kaftanovskaya; Nami Motosugi; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai; Masato Kinoshita; Hisashi Hashimoto; Kenjiro Ozato; Yuko Wakamatsu
DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION, 49, 9, 699, 709, Dec. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Simultaneous formation of haploid, diploid and triploid eggs in diploid-triploid mosaic Roaches
H. Yoshikawa; K. Morishima; T. Fujimoto; E. Yamaha; K. Araj
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY, 71, 250, 263, Oct. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Evaluation of different doses of UV irradiation to loach eggs for genetic inactivation of the maternal genome
Takafumi Fujimoto; Suzu Sakao; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART A-ECOLOGICAL GENETICS AND PHYSIOLOGY, 307A, 8, 449, 462, Aug. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Cytological mechanisms of gynogenesis and sperm incorporation in unreduced diploid eggs of the clonal loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Teleostei : Cobitidae)
Masaki Itono; Naoki Okabayashi; Kagayaki Morishima; Takafumi Fujimoto; Hiroyuki Yoshikawa; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART A-ECOLOGICAL GENETICS AND PHYSIOLOGY, 307A, 1, 35, 50, Jan. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Developmental stages and germ cell lineage of the loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
Takafumi Fujimoto; Takashi Kataoka; Suzu Sakao; Taiju Saito; Etsuro Yamaha; Katsutoshi Arai
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 23, 11, 977, 989, Nov. 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Premeiotic endomitosis produces diploid eggs in the natural clone loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Teleostei : Cobitidae)
M Itono; K Morishima; T Fujimoto; E Bando; E Yamaha; K Arai
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Comparative Experimental Biology, 305A, 6, 513, 523, Jun. 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Drastic mortality in tetraploid induction results from the elevation of ploidy in masu salmon Oncorhynchus masou
S Sakao; T Fujimoto; S Kimura; E Yamaha; K Arai
AQUACULTURE, 252, 2-4, 147, 160, Mar. 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Visualization of primordial germ cells in vivo using GFP-nos1 3 ' UTR mRNA
Taiju Saito; Takafumi Fujimoto; Shingo Maegawa; Kunio Inoue; Minoru Tanaka; Katsutoshi Arai; Etsuro Yamaha
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 50, 8, 691, 700, 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - The germ line lineage in ukigori, Gymnogobius species (Teleostei : Gobiidae) during embryonic development
T Saito; S Otani; T Fujimoto; T Suzuki; T Nakatsuji; K Arai; E Yamaha
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 48, 10, 1079, 1085, Dec. 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Embryonic stages from cleavage to gastrula in the loach Misgumus anguillicaudatus
T Fujimoto; T Kataoka; S Otani; T Saito; T Aita; E Yamaha; K Arai
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 21, 7, 747, 755, Jul. 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Clonal diploid sperm of the Diplcoid-Triploid mosaic loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Teleostei : Cobitidae)
K Morishima; K Oshima; S Horie; T Fujimoto; E Yamaha; K Arai
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART A-COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, 301A, 6, 502, 511, Jun. 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Clonal diploid sperm of the diploid-triploid mosaic loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Teleostei:Cobitidae).
Morishima, K; Oshima, K; Horie, S; Fujimoto, T; Yamaha, E; Arai, K
Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Comparative experimental biology, 301, 502, 511, Jun. 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Recovery of fertility in male hybrids of a cross between goldfish and common carp by transplantation of PGC (primordial germ cell)-containing graft
E Yamaha; M Murakami; K Hada; S Otani; T Fujimoto; M Tanaka; S Sakao; S Kimura; S Sato; K Arai
GENETICA, 119, 2, 121, 131, Oct. 2003, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Aberrant and arrested embryos from masu salmon eggs treated for tetraploidization by inhibition of the first cleavage
S Sakao; T Fujimoto; M Tanaka; E Yamaha; K Arai
NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI, 69, 5, 738, 748, Sep. 2003, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Scientific journal - Spontaneous mosaicism occurred in normally fertilized and gynogenetically induced progeny of the kokanee salmon Oncorhynchus nerka
M Tanaka; S Kimura; T Fujimoto; S Sakao; E Yamaha; K Arai
FISHERIES SCIENCE, 69, 1, 176, 180, Feb. 2003, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Haplo-diploid mosaic embryos in cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki
Yamaha, E; Kimura, S; Tanaka, M; Sakao, S; Fujimoto, T; Arai, K
Fish Genetics and Breeding Science, 32, 121, 126, 2002, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Scientific journal - Polyploid and mosaic crucian carp found in Tokotan-numa Swamp, Akkeshi, Hokkaido
Yamaha, E; Murakami, M; Takeyama, S; Morishima, K; Otani, S; Horie, S; Tanaka, M; Fujimoto, T; Oshima, K; Sakao, S; Aida, T; Arai, K
Fish Genetics and Breeding Science, 32, 19, 26, 2002, [Peer-reviewed]
Japanese, Scientific journal - Germ-line chimera by lower-part blastoderm transplantation between diploid goldfish and triploid crucian carp
E Yamaha; M Kazama-Wakabayashi; S Otani; T Fujimoto; K Arai
GENETICA, 111, 1-3, 227, 236, 2001, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal
- 函館におけるキングサーモン完全養殖への道のり
藤本貴史, ほくよう調査レポート, 351, 19, 29, Feb. 2026, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
Japanese, Introduction other - 国内で初めて完全養殖を達成 北海道のキングサーモン養殖
藤本貴史, 養殖ビジネス, 63, 2, 6, 11, Feb. 2026, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
Japanese, Introduction commerce magazine - 函館におけるキングサーモン完全養殖への挑戦
藤本貴史, ほくよう調査レポート, 340, 20, 28, Feb. 2025, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
Japanese, Introduction commerce magazine - 水産養殖における染色体操作
Fujimoto Takafumi, Aquaculture Business, 61, 4, 52, 59, Mar. 2024, [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
Japanese, Introduction commerce magazine - 令和2年度水産学会賞受(魚介類の染色体操作とその育種応用に関する研究)受賞者紹介
Fujimoto, Takafumi; Kaeriiyama, Masahide, Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi, 87, 190, 190, Jun. 2021
Japanese, Others - Sperm‐Fluorescence in situ Hybridization(Sperm‐FISH)を用いた精子のゲノム構成と倍数性判別法
黒田真道; 柴田季子; 村上賢; 山羽悦郎; 藤本貴史; 荒井克俊, 日本水産学会大会講演要旨集, 2019, 95, 26 Mar. 2019
Japanese - 系統識別プローブを用いたFluorescence in situ Hybridization(FISH)によるクローンドジョウの交雑起源の解明
黒田真道; 柴田季子; 村上賢; 山羽悦郎; 藤本貴史; 荒井克俊, 日本水産学会大会講演要旨集, 2019, 94, 26 Mar. 2019
Japanese - サクラマス雌×マスノスケ雄の交雑に由来する二倍体雑種と三倍体雑種の生残と成長
藤本貴史; 柴田季子; 小亀友也; 高橋英佑; 傳法隆; 山羽悦郎; 荒井克俊; 足立伸次, 日本水産学会大会講演要旨集, 2019, 2019 - 支部のページ「平成29年度日本水産学会北海道支部大会」
藤本 貴史; 栗原 秀幸; 高橋 潤, Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi, 84, 3, 440, 441, May 2018, [Invited]
Japanese, Meeting report - DNA解析を用いたチョウザメとキャビアの種判別
藤本 貴史; Miloš Havelka; 荒井 克俊, Aquaculture Business, 55, 5, 48, 51, Apr. 2018, [Invited]
Japanese, Others - Induction of heteroplasmy by interspecific mitochondrial transplantation in zebrafish
ENDOH Mitsuru; YAMAHA Etsuro; FUJIMOTO Takafumi, The Journal of Reproduction and Development Supplement, 111, 0, AW1, 4-AW1-4, 2018
<p>【目的】魚類では異種間交雑や倍数性操作により<u>核ゲノム構成を人為的に制御</u>し,不妊個体が作出されてきた。一方,哺乳類ではミトコンドリアヘテロプラスミーの顕在化による雄性不妊が報告されている。魚類では<u>ヘテロプラスミーと生殖特性の関係</u>についての知見が少なく,細胞質に起因する妊性の変化を解明できれば,新たな不妊化技術となる可能性がある。本研究では,ヘテロプラスミーが配偶子形成に与える影響の調査に向け,ゼブラフィッシュ受精卵へキンギョミトコンドリアを移植し,人為的ヘテロプラスミー誘起を試みた。【方法】キンギョ未受精卵から単離したミトコンドリアをMitoTracker Green FMで蛍光染色した。このキンギョ由来ミトコンドリアを,人工授精により作出したゼブラフィッシュの1細胞期胚に顕微注入し,ミトコンドリア移植を行った。32個体の移植胚を個別培養し,生残率,奇形率を調べるとともに,蛍光顕微鏡によりキンギョ由来ミトコンドリアの動態を観察した。また,8細胞期から孵化期までの各胚発生段階におけるキンギョmtDNAの存否を,種判別プライマーを用いたPCRにより調査した。プライマーはゼブラフィッシュとキンギョのミトコンドリア遺伝子<i>atp6</i>に対して種特異的に増幅するように設計した。【結果】受精72時間後の孵化期における移植胚の生残率と奇形率は81.3%,11.1%であり,無処理胚(83.3%,5.7%)と比較して有意差はなかった。移植胚では,キンギョ由来ミトコンドリアを示す蛍光シグナルが胚発生の進行とともに胚体全体へ拡散した。また,移植胚のすべての胚発生段階でゼブラフィッシュとキンギョのmtDNAが検出された。以上のように,<u>移植したキンギョmtDNAは胚発生を通して存在</u>したため,本研究のミトコンドリア移植は,<u>魚類のヘテロプラスミー研究の良いモデル</u>であると考えられた。今後,ヘテロプラスミー個体での始原生殖細胞の分化や配偶子形成の解析により,ヘテロプラスミーが生殖特性へ与える影響を明らかにできると考えられる。</p>, THE SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT, Japanese - Loach as a model fish for developmental engineering and chromosome manipulation
Takafumi Fujimoto, NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI, 83, 3, 345, 348, May 2017, [Invited]
Japanese, Others - Production of gynogenetic Doubled Haploid rainbow trout using UV-irradiated brown trout spermatoza and hydrostatic pressure shock
Marcin Polonis; Takafumi Fujimoto; Stefan Dobosz; Tomasz Zalewski; Krzysztof Jagiello; Weronika Domaszk; Konrad Ocalewicz, CHROMOSOME RESEARCH, 24, S5, S5, Aug. 2016
English, Summary international conference - Usefulness of different sugars for cryopreservation of salmon (Salmo salar) semen
J. Nynca; S. Judycka; E. Liszewska; S. Dobosz; K. Arai; T. Fujimoto; J. Grudniewska; A. Ciereszko, ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE, 169, 105, 105, Jun. 2016
English, Summary international conference - 水産研究のフロントから: The 5th International Workshop on the Biology of Fish Gametes に参加して
Takafumi Fujimoto, Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi, 82, 3, 370, May 2016
Japanese, Meeting report - 魚類生殖細胞がひらく養殖技術
Takafumi Fujimoto, 知のフロンティア, 3, 162, 163, Oct. 2014, [Invited]
Japanese, Others - 水産研究のフロントから: Genetics in Aquaculture XIに参加して
Takafumi Fujimoto, Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi, 78, 6, 1247, Nov. 2012
Japanese, Meeting report - Genetic breeding using chromosome manipulation in fish
Takafumi Fujimoto, NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI, 78, 2, 266, 266, Mar. 2012, [Invited]
Japanese, Meeting report - Artificially induced tetraploid masu salmon have the ability to form primordial germ cells
阪尾 寿々; 藤本 貴史; 小林 輝正; 吉崎 悟朗; 山羽 悦郎; 荒井 克俊, 日本水産學會誌 = Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries, 76, 4, 581, 581, 15 Jul. 2010
Japanese - 雑種と異質三倍体は借り腹生産の不妊化宿主として有効か?
藤本貴史; YASUI George Shigueki; 吉川廣幸; 山羽悦郎; 荒井克俊, 日本水産学会大会講演要旨集, 2008, 245, 27 Mar. 2008
Japanese - ドジョウ雌とカラドジョウ雄間の雑種・異質三倍体雄は不妊か?
藤本貴史; YASUI George Shigeki; 吉川廣幸; 山羽悦郎; 荒井克俊, 日本水産学会大会講演要旨集, 2007, 5, 25 Sep. 2007
Japanese - 借り腹生産における三倍体の不妊化宿主としての有効性
藤本貴史; 吉川廣幸; 森島輝; 山羽悦郎; 荒井克俊, 日本水産学会大会講演要旨集, 2007, 108, 28 Mar. 2007
Japanese - Adult individuals obtained from embryos reconstructed by nuclear transfer of the adult caudal fin cells in medaka
Ekaterina Bubenshchikova; Elena Kaftanovskaya; Takafumi Fujimoto; Katsutoshi Arai; Masato Kinoshita; Kenjiro Ozato; Yuko Wakamatsu, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 22, 12, 1458, 1458, Dec. 2005
English, Summary international conference - Diploid induced-recipient eggs lead reconstructed embryos by nuclear transfer of adult cells to adult individuals in medaka (Oryzias latipes)
Y. Wakamatsu; E. Bubenshchikova; E. Kaftanovskaya; K. Arai; T. Fujimoto; M. Kinoshita; K. Ozaro, MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT, 122, S184, S184, Sep. 2005
English, Summary international conference - GFP‐nos1‐3′ UTR mRNAによる始原生殖細胞(PGCs)の顕在化とそれを利用した魚類の異種間生殖系列キメラ作出の試み
斎藤大樹; 吉川智仁; 長井輝美; 大谷哲; 藤本貴史; 相田貴紀; 井上邦夫; 前川真吾; 山羽悦郎, 日本水産学会大会講演要旨集, 2003, 130, 01 Apr. 2003
Japanese - ORIGIN AND MIGRATION OF PRIMORDIAL GERM CELLS (PGCS) IN UKIGORI (PERCIFORMES, GOBIIDAE) DURING EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT(Developmental Biology)(Proceedings of the Seventy-Third Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan) :
Saito T.; Otani S.; Nagai T.; Fujimoto T.; Suzuki T.; Nakatsuji T.; Arai K.; Yamaha E., Zoological science, 19, 12, 1445, 1445, 2002
Zoological Society of Japan, English
- Sex Control in Aquaculture Volume I
Katsutoshi ARAI; Takafumi FUJIMOTO, Chapter 6 Chromosome Manipulation Techniques and Applications to Aquaculture
Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2019, 9781119127291, English, [Joint work] - Fish Genetics and Breeding Science
Takafumi Fujimoto, Chapter 6 and 10
Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Mar. 2017, 9784861632709, 243, 99-118、171-186, Japanese, Textbook, [Contributor]
- 育種生物学特論Ⅰ, 2024年, 修士課程, 水産科学院
- 育種生物学特論Ⅱ, 2024年, 修士課程, 水産科学院
- Introduction to Fisheries Sciences Ⅰ(水産科学汎論Ⅰ), 2024年, 修士課程, 水産科学院
- 大学院共通授業科目(一般科目):自然科学・応用科学, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 大学院共通授業科目(一般科目):自然科学・応用科学, 2024年, 修士課程, 大学院共通科目
- 水圏生物学実験, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- 水産増殖学, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- 環境と人間, 2024年, 学士課程, 全学教育
- 水産増養殖実習, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- 水産科学英語Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- 水産科学英語Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- 水族遺伝育種学, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- 水族発生生物学, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- 発生・組織学, 2024年, 学士課程, 水産学部
- JAPANESE SOCIETY OF ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS
- JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR AQUACULTURE SCIENCE
- THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF FISH GENETICS AND BREEDING SCIENCE
- THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
- THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF FISHERIES SCIENCE
- 染色体学会
- Studies on genome doubling and elimination in germ cells for clonal gamete production
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2029
藤本 貴史; 西村 俊哉
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 24H00516 - 倍数性変化に柔軟な魚類をモデルとした多倍数体化初期の進化過程の解明
科学研究費助成事業
Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2028
三品 達平; 渡辺 勝敏; 藤本 貴史
日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(B), 25K02327 - 魚類における雌性発生による致死的半数性を利用した不稔化技術の開発
科学研究費助成事業
Jun. 2023 - Mar. 2026
藤本 貴史; 西村 俊哉; 田中 啓介
日本学術振興会, 挑戦的研究(開拓), 北海道大学, 23K17382 - Mechanisms of genome duplication in gonial cells from clonal dojo loach and medaka hybrids
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
15 Nov. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2025
藤本 貴史; MARTA ANATOLIE
初年度は研究期間が短いため生殖細胞培養系の確立とゲノム倍加現象が生殖細胞において生じるニホンメダカとハイナンメダカの交雑を行うことで解析用の雑種メダカの作出を目指して研究を行った。
生殖細胞においてゲノム倍加が生じるクローン系統ドジョウに由来する生殖細胞培養のための条件検討を行った。細胞培養を成功させるために極めて重要なことは、様々な酵素を用いた効果的な生殖腺細胞の解離にある。条件検討を重ねた結果、ドジョウのオスとメス両方の生殖腺細胞の解離に成功した。しかし、分離した生殖腺細胞の純度、量、生存率に対する生殖腺細胞の濃縮の影響を評価するために、密度勾配遠心による分画を試みた。その結果、より純度の高い生殖腺細胞を得ることができたものの、単一の雌性生殖腺からの収量は最適な細胞培養を確立するには不十分であった。また、初代生殖腺細胞の最適培養条件の検討において、血清の添加量、成長因子、細胞分化の阻害剤の添加を試みた。細胞培養は数週間維持されたが増殖率は低かった。生殖細胞培養と並行して、生殖腺解離細胞から再構築したオルガノイド様の細胞塊の作製を試みた。細胞塊は1ヶ月間培養することが可能であった。
メダカ属雑種では野生型のニホンメダカとハイナンメダカの交雑に加え、生殖細胞をEGFPで可視化できる遺伝子組換え系統のニホンメダカと野生型のハイナンメダカの雑種を誘起した。後者は培養下で生殖細胞を可視化できるため、非常に有用なツールとなりうる。
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Hokkaido University, 23KF0181 - 半クローン雑種の総括研究-永続性の実証(究極要因)とゲノム削除機構(至近要因)
科学研究費助成事業
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2024
宗原 弘幸; 藤本 貴史
半クローンやクローンは、雌だけを産むため個体群増殖速度が速いが、遺伝的な多様性を作り出せないなどの欠点から、系統寿命は短いと考えられてきた。しかし、アイナメ属半クローン雑種を用いた研究から、一世代で父親ゲノムを「置換」できる半クローンの特性により、母種の雄と交配することで組換え可能な子を作り出せる。本研究では、アイナメ属の系統進化の過程で、ホスト種を換えることによって半クローンと組換え世代を繰り返し、系統寿命を伸ばしてきたことを実証する。さらに半クローン配偶子が形成過程を細胞学的に解明する。
本年度は以下のことを実施した。
1. 父種ゲノムの削除機構の細胞学的観察と遺伝マーカーの作成
半クローンは、体細胞では父種と母種のゲノムが協働して雑種成体となるが、生殖細胞は母種ゲノムだけを伝える配偶子を作る。父種ゲノムが排除される仕組みを明らかにするため、卵原細胞から卵母細胞になるまでの染色体動態を蛍光観察するためのプローブ作成を行った。
2. 半クローン遺伝子のホストスイッチを経由した永続性の実証
スジアイナメゲノムの半クローン雑種には、アイナメを宿主にするアイナメ系とクジメを宿主にするクジメ系が北海道南部とロシア沿海州で見つかっている。スジアイナメは北太平洋東岸で起源し極東まで分布を広げた。その過程には、多様な環境があったが、そこを近縁種のゲノムを宿主にして乗り越えて極東にたどり着いたと考えられる。これを『ホストスイッチ仮定』とよんでいる。これを実証するために、もっとも寒冷域にまで分布するエゾアイナメを厚岸町から入手した。エゾアイナメの精子で半クローンの卵を人工受精した。その結果、受精し、孵化仔魚も他の純粋種と比較して順調に育つことがわかった。本年度は得られた稚魚のDNA量、両親種のゲノムが遺伝したことを確認した。次年度はこの雑種が半クローンかどうかを確認する。
日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, 21K05743 - Mechanism of diploid gamete formation and its application for genetic breeding
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2024
藤本 貴史; 西村 俊哉; 田中 啓介; 黒田 真道
①ゲノム倍加を生じる系統間ゲノムの違い、②ゲノム倍加の分子機構の解明、③雑種由来の二倍性配偶子の育種応用に向けた実証研究の3項目の概要を下記に示す。
①ドジョウB系統の倍加半数体の遺伝子型が完全同型接合であることを確認し、倍加半数体の高分子DNAをロングリードシーケンサーによるゲノム解析に供した。得られたリードデータを用いて、ゲノム構造解析の基盤整備を行った。また、B系統特異的なFISHプローブを開発するとともに、人為的に作出した二系統間雑種でGISHを行った結果、A系統をプローブDNAに用いた場合はA系統由来と推定される染色体の全域が染色されたのに対し、B系統をプローブDNAに用いた場合はB系統と推定される染色体のセントロメア領域が強く染色され、系統間におけるゲノム構造の変異が示唆された。
②クローンドジョウの卵巣をトリプシンやコラゲナーゼ等の消化酵素を用いて細胞を開始した後、メッシュフィルターを通して大型卵母細胞を除去することにより、小型の細胞のみを回収した。これらの細胞を固定後、Vasa抗体を用いて免疫蛍光染色に供した結果、比較的大型の核を有する卵原細胞が確認された。また、FACSによる分析では、Vasa陽性の細胞がDAPI蛍光強度で3種類に分類できることが明らかとなった。一方、生殖細胞の可視化にむけた遺伝子組換えクローンドジョウでは、piwiあるいはvasaのプロモーター領域とEGFPからなるコンストラクトを作製し、これらを顕微注入した遺伝子組換え候補個体の作出を行った。
③サケ科ではイワナ属の種間雑種では受精能を有する半数性の配偶子形成が確認された。他のサケ科雑種に関しては成熟に至らず、現在も継続して飼育している。ドジョウ雑種ではカラドジョウ雌と各系統のドジョウ雄の雑種雄は不妊性を示すことが確認された。メダカ属雑種では、雑種個体を誘起し成熟に向けて飼育を継続している。
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 21H02278 - 育種・染色体操作を用いたサケ科魚類の魚卵アレルゲン性低減化の試み
科学研究費助成事業
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023
清水 裕; 笹岡 友季穂; 藤本 貴史; 平松 尚志; 石田 晃彦; 渡慶次 学; 佐伯 宏樹
進捗状況を3項目に分けて述べる。
1.不妊魚の作出:ニジマスの卵と凍結保存したブラウントラウトあるいはサクラマスの精子を受精し、第二極体放出阻止処理により作出された雑種三倍体候補(A:ニジマス×ブラウントラウト、B:ニジマス×サクラマス)の倍数性を調査した。その結果、候補Aでは全25個体で、候補Bでは1個体を除く30個体が三倍体であった。これらの個体はPITタグで標識し、現在も継続して飼育している。(藤本)
2.魚卵アレルゲン検知系の構築:引き続き、ニジマス卵アレルゲンであるβ’-component(BC)のペーパー免疫分析デバイスの構築に取り組んだ。デバイスは濾紙にインクを印刷して加熱する常法により作製し、インクで囲まれた領域を分析反応ゾーンとした。分析は、反応ゾーンに新規作製した抗BC抗体を固定化して試料、酵素標識抗BC抗体、発色試薬を順に加えて行う手順とした。本手法では、従来並みの感度(検出感度:約1 ng/mL)の分析が従来の1/100の時間(約20分)で可能となった。(渡慶次、石田)
加えて、交雑種に対応した検知系に使用する抗体の作成のため、サクラマス排卵からBCを精製し、これを家兎に免疫し抗血清を作製した。(平松)
3.不妊化魚の魚卵アレルゲン性の調査:全23個体の不妊化三倍体ニジマスの内臓組織に含まれるBCを測定したが、全個体の筋肉には魚卵アレルギー発症リスクが認められなかった。しかし、5個体において生殖線から少量のBCが検出されたが、その内3個体は目視にて明確な生殖腺の発達が観られた。目視で生殖線の発達が確認できなかった20個体について、生殖腺の組織切片を作製・観察し、その発達状況を確認した。その結果、3個体で発達中の卵母細胞が散在しているのが確認され、生殖腺の外観だけでアレルギー発症リスクの有無を見分けるのは困難であることが判明した。(清水、佐伯、笹岡、平松)
日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, 20K05903 - Acceleration of fish breeding in vivo through germline chimera
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2021
YAMAHA Etsuro
It takes a long time for genetic breeding in commercially important fish species, because of their low survival rate in their early stage of development and long generation time. When germline chimeras, in which primordial germ cells (PGCs) with genetic diversity are transplanted into host blastula of different species are induced, only PGCs adapted under different gonadal environment are expected to differentiate into normal gametes. As these chimera individuals will select such adapted PGCs in vivo, they shorten the breeding times. In this application, we established such techniques, namely cell sorting of visualized PGCs with GFP fluorescence at the blastula stage, loading into glass needle as cell mass, and transplantation into the host blastula. When a large number of sorted PGCs were transplanted, low number of them migrated to host gonadal region, while many distributed various regions of the host embryo and formed cell mass in some cases. Other methods will be required.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 16H02564 - Origin and evolution of hemiclonal Hexagrammos hybrids elongating the lineage lifetime by host-switching
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2020
MUNEHARA Hiroyuki
Unisexual vertebrates (i.e., those produced through clonal or hemiclonal reproduction) are typically incapable of purging deleterious mutations, and as a result, are considered short-lived in evolutionary terms although high increasing rate. However, most of clonal and hemiclonal vertebrates have existed far longer than expected theoretical generation longevities. This study clarified that hemiclonal Hexagrammos hybrids use two-way backcrossing (clonal genomes are returned to the gene pool where they can undergo recombination plays an important role in increasing the genetic variability of the hemiclonal genome and reducing the extinction risk). In this way, hemiclonal lineages may have survived longer than predicted through occasional recombinant generation. In addition, genes inducing hemiclonal reproduction by discarding of paternal genome during oogenesis have been identified by RNA-seq although not yet being completely analyzed.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 17H03856 - Control of fish spermatogenesis by genome editing
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2019
FUJIMOTO TAKAFUMI; YAMAZAKI kyo; NISHIHARA Hiroki
Artificial induction of infertile fish is necessary for application of transgenic and genome edited fish for aquaculture. In this study, mutation of genes associated with sperm flagellum movement and spermiogenesis were induced by genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 in order to develop novel male specific sterilization in zebrafish Danio rerio and dojo loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus. We successfully induced frame shift mutations in the both genes in germ cells of F0 individuals, because the F0 males produced sperm with the mutations. The sperm showed motility as well as wild type and could fertilize to induce F1 generation. F2 generation with homozygous deficiency of spermiogenesis related gene was successfully produced by mating within F1 individuals of heterozygous mutation. But production of functional sperm was observed in the F2 generation. The unexpected functional sperm production might be caused by illegitimate translation and/or expression of orthologue genes.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 16H04965 - Molecular mechanisms of atypical development and reproduction caused by hybridization and the application to breeding in fishes
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2019
ARAI KATSUTOSHI; FUJIMOTO Takafumi; YAMAHA Etsuro; MUNEHAEA Hiroyuki
Hybridization between different fish species produced viable or inviable progeny. Recovery of survival potential by allotriploidization was often recorded in certain inviable hybrids. In viable hybrids, germ cells were not normally differentiated and hermaphroditic gonads were frequently detected. Natural clonal loach has the hybrid origin between two genetically diverse strains. Each chromosome of the clone cannot find its counterpart for pairing in the course of meiosis. Thus, each chromosome is duplicated by premeiotic endomitosis and then sister chromosome pairing assures the formation of isogenic gametes. Natural Hexagrammos hybrids have large metacentic chromosomes closely linking to hemi-clonal reproduction (hybridogenesis). Thus, these chromosomes were used as marker of hemi-clone to detect presence or absence of back-crossed progeny between hemi-clonal hybrid female and paternal pure species.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 15H02457 - Studies on reduced 2n sperm and unreduced 4n egg formation in tetraploid crucian carp
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2017
ARAI Katsutoshi; FUJIMOTO Takafumi; YAMAHA Etsuro; MURAKAMI Masaru; SUZUKI Hiroko; TANAKA Hideki
Although triploid (3n) silver crucian carp reproduces by gynogenesis as all-female clonal line, both female and male appear in tetraploiod (4n). 4n females generate unreduced 4n eggs which reproduce by gynogenesis, while 4n males produce reduced 2n sperm. Here, the mechanism responsible for such a different meiotic manner between the two sexes is attempted to disclose and obtained results are as follows:(1) some males produced aneuploid sperm, (2) 3n progeny, 4n progeny, or both 3n and 4n progeny occurred in cross-fertilization between 3n female and diploid goldfish male, (3) Samples analyzed here included unusually high rates of Chinese silver crucian carp. Thus, irregular meiosis and gametogenesis in 4n crucian carp may relate to the genomic consititution of each 4n individual.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Hokkaido University, 15K14786 - Effects of genomic constitution in germ cell on gametogenesis in fish
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
01 Apr. 2013 - 31 Mar. 2016
Fujimoto Takafumi
The effects of genomic constitution in germ cell on gametogenesis was studied using progeny, which were produced by artificial hybridization using loach derived from two genetically different groups and clonal line. Allodiploid males produced a small amount of haploid sperm and female suggested a fertility because of oocyte growth in the ovary. In allotriploids, males showed infertility due to the defect in meiosis, although females showed fertility as well as the allodiploid female. In the infertile allotriploid male, abnormal pairing in meiotic chromosomes were detected by Fluorescence in situ hybridization. Genomic in situ hybridization revealed genetic differences between chromosomes of the two groups. Transcriptome analysis based on RNA-seq to compare gene expressions between gonads with unreduced or reduced gametogenesis showed different expressing genes associated with cell division and cell cycle etc.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A), Hokkaido University, 25712021 - Revision and application of polyspermy in fish
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
01 Apr. 2013 - 31 Mar. 2015
ARAI KATSUTOSHI; FUJIMOTO Takafumi
About 1, 10, 100 or 1000 spermatozoa of albino male were microinjected into an activated and then dechorionated egg of wild-type female loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus. The group injected with about 1000 spermatozoa gave 87% cleavage rate, almost equivalent to control and 6% hatched. When dechorionated eggs were inseminated with sperm to induce polyspermy, 2% hatched. Expression of albino trait and all-male inheritance of microsatellite DNA markers concluded that most resultant haploid, mosaic including haploid cells, and tetraploid embryos were androgenetically developed progeny. While diploid, triploid, aneuploid and mosaic embryos also occurred by the fusion of egg nucleus and single to multiple numbers of sperm nuclei. Similar development was observed in microinjected and polyspermy eggs of zebrafish.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Hokkaido University, 25660161 - 魚類の倍数性配偶子誘導にむけた自然クローン魚におけるゲノム倍加機構の解明
科学研究費助成事業 研究活動スタート支援
31 Aug. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2014
藤本 貴史
一部のドジョウでは天然でクローン生殖や倍数性配偶子の産出が認められ、その特殊な配偶子形成を人為的に制御できれば非常に有用な技術となりうるが、その分子メカニズムは未だ不明である。このメカニズム解明において、ゲノム倍加が起こるタイミングの特定とその時期の生殖細胞を単離し解析しなければならず、そのためにはドジョウの生殖腺発達段階のステージングと生殖細胞を解析するための新たな実験系を構築する必要がある。そこで、本年度はサンプルとして入手が容易な通常両性生殖個体を用いて実験家系を作出し、継時的に体長測定を行うとともに生殖腺を採取し、組織学的に解析に供した。そして、本年度の研究によって仔魚期から性分化期までの生殖腺の発達段階のステージングをおおむね行うことができ、生殖細胞の増殖期と減数分裂開始時期の特定ができた。その結果、成長初期の生殖細胞の活発な増殖はメスで顕著に観察され、ある一定の体サイズに成長した段階で、雌の生殖腺では減数分裂に移行し卵形成が開始することが明らかとなった。本知見はクローンドジョウの生殖腺における生殖細胞のゲノム倍加が生殖腺発達段階のどの時期で起こっているかを調査するためには必須の基礎的知見であり、希少なクローン個体を用いた生殖腺サンプリングにおいて、調査に必要なサンプリング時期を定めるためには重要である。しかし、生殖腺ステージングで明らかとなった減数分裂開始時期は、卵巣発達過程においてかなり早い段階で起きており、この発達段階の卵巣を実体顕微鏡下で単離することはかなりの困難を要する。この対策として密度勾配遠心による卵巣細胞の分離が考えられ、本年度はパーコールを用いた生殖細胞の分離・純化技術の開発を遂行し、特定の密度分画における生殖細胞の分離が可能となった。
日本学術振興会, 研究活動スタート支援, 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 24880001 - サケ科交雑種の生存性と、異種ゲノムの組合せが遺伝子発現に与える影響
北海道大学総長室事業推進経費「若手研究者自立支援」
2012 - 2012
藤本 貴史
北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding - 魚類の精子を用いた遺伝資源の保存と個体再生に関する研究
科学研究費助成事業 若手研究(B)
2006 - 2007
藤本 貴史
本年度は、初年度に開発した技術の応用と個体の解析に主眼をおいて研究を行った。凍結保存精子からの個体再生実験では、ドジョウ凍結精子と通常卵との受精からは孵化仔魚を得ることができたが、凍結精子を用いた人為雄性発生では生存性の孵化仔魚を得ることができず、精子ゲノムのみでの個体再生には至らなかった。しかしながら、ドジョウ精子の凍結保存方法を他のドジョウ属魚類(カラドジョウ、フクドジョウ、エゾホトケドジョウ)へ応用したところ、本実験で用いたドジョウ属魚類の凍結精子は解凍後にも運動性を示したことから、本研究で開発した凍結保存方法が広範囲のドジョウ属魚類に応用可能であることが示された。二倍性精子に関しては、まず、初年度に作製した新四倍体系統が産する二倍性精子に由来する雄性発生個体の雄の妊性を確認した。これらの成熟した個体からは受精能を有する半数性精子が産出され、正常個体が生じたことから、新四倍体系統の産する二倍性精子は再生産可能な二倍体個体を作出できることが明らかとなった。次に、本年度ではポリエチレングリコール溶液(PEG)と高カルシウム溶液(高Ca)を用いた化学処理を施し、通常二倍体が産する半数性精子の接着・融合による倍加法を検討した。核とミトコンドリアを蛍光染色した精子の形態観察では、処理群においてのみ接着・融合している精子が観察された。また、各化学処理を比較したところ、PEG処理では僅かに接着・融合精子が見受けられるものの、PEG濃度の増加とともに精子の運動性が顕著に低下し、多数の精子凝集塊が生じた。一方、高Ca処理では、精子の運動性は濃度や処理時間によって大きな影響は受けず、PEG処理よりも多数の接着・融合精子が生じた。このことから、高Ca処理は精子の接着・融合に有効な処理方法であると考えられた。
日本学術振興会, 若手研究(B), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 18780138 - ドジョウを用いた宿主不妊化技術の研究
21世紀COEプログラム若手研究者研究活動経費
2005 - 2005
藤本 貴史
北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
- 生殖系列キメラを介して致死的魚類半数体に由来する生殖細胞から遺伝的に同一な配偶子を得る方法
Patent right, 山羽 悦郎; 荒井 克俊; 藤本 貴史; 斎藤 大樹, 国立大学法人北海道大学
JP2011052772, 09 Feb. 2011
WO2011-099528, 18 Aug. 2011
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Industrial Property Rights
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Aug. 2013 - Mar. 2025
Academic research planning
Academic research
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