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Research article
Medaka, Oryzias latipes, egg envelopes are created by ovarian-expressed ZP proteins and liver-expressed choriogenins
Devun S. Birk, Shinji Onose, Masato Kinoshita & Kenji Murata
Published on 28 July 2022
Research article
Allogeneic testes transplanted into partially castrated adult medaka (Oryzias latipes) can produce donor-derived offspring by natural mating over a prolonged period
Daichi Kayo, Shinji Kanda & Kataaki Okubo
Published on 25 July 2022
Research article
Ancient rivers shaped the current genetic diversity of the wood mouse (Apodemus speciosus) on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Jun J. Sato & Kouki Yasuda
Published on 21 June 2022
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Midnight/midday-synchronized expression of cryptochrome genes in the eyes of three teleost species, zebrafish, goldfish, and medaka
Marika Nakagawa, Keiko Okano, Yuya Saratani, Yosuke Shoji & Toshiyuki Okano
Published on 7 June 2022
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A new, widespread venomous mammal species: hemolytic activity of Sorex araneus venom is similar to that of Neomys fodiens venom
Krzysztof Kowalski, Paweł Marciniak & Leszek Rychlik
Published on 7 June 2022
Research article
An approach for elucidating dermal fibroblast dedifferentiation in amphibian limb regeneration
Akira Satoh, Rena Kashimoto, Ayaka Ohashi, Saya Furukawa, Sakiya Yamamoto, Takeshi Inoue, Toshinori Hayashi & Kiyokazu Agata
Published on 7 June 2022
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A transcriptomic reevaluation of the accessory olfactory organ in Bichir (Polypterus senegalus)
Atsuhiro Sakuma, Zicong Zhang, Eri Suzuki, Tatsuki Nagasawa & Masato Nikaido
Published on 8 Feb 2022
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Gene expression alterations from reversible to irreversible stages during coral metamorphosis
Yuu Ishii, Masayuki Hatta, Ryusaku Deguchi, Masakado Kawata & Shinichiro Maruyama
Published on 25 January 2022
Research article
Ultrastructure of cerebral eyes in Oweniidae and Chaetopteridae (Annelida) – implications for the evolution of eyes in Annelida
Günter Purschke, Stepan Vodopyanov, Anjilie Baller, Tim von Palubitzki, Thomas Bartolomaeus & Patrick Beckers
Published on 25 January 2022
Research article
Linoleic acid as corpse recognition signal in a social aphid
Harunobu Shibao, Mayako Kutsukake, Shigeru Matsuyama & Takema Fukatsu
Published on 6 January 2022
Founded in 1878, the Zoological Society of Japan is known to be one of the oldest and successful academic societies in Japan, and has supported scientific activities across a wide-range fields of areas associated with basic zoology. The Zoological Society of Japan is an academic society aimed at the advance and dissemination of animal scientific research. Members, starting with researchers and graduate students affiliated with universities and research institutes, consist of teaching staff at elementary, middle and high schools, and the number of members has reached 2,700.
Aims and scope
Zoological Letters is an open access journal that publishes new and important findings in the zoological sciences. As a sister journal to Zoological Science, Zoological Letters covers a wide range of basic fields of zoology, from taxonomy to bioinformatics. We also welcome submissions of paleontology reports as part of our effort to contribute to the development of new perspectives in evolutionary zoology. Our goal is to serve as a global publishing forum for fundamental researchers in all fields of zoology.
Shigeru Kuratani, Editor-in-Chief
Shigeru Kuratani received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology at Kyoto University. He spent the period from 1988 to 1991 working in experimental embryology in the Department of Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia before moving to the Biochemistry Department, Baylor College of Medicine, where he focused on molecular embryological research. He returned to Japan in 1994 to take a position as associate professor at the Institute of Medical Embryology and Genetics in the Kumamoto University School of Medicine. He moved to Okayama University to assume a professorship in the Department of Biology in 1997, where he remained until he was appointed team leader at the CDB in 2001. He was appointed Group Director at CDB from 2005 to 2014. Since 2014, he is Chief Scientist at RIKEN.
ZooDiversity Web is a search and access website that provides an attractive and easy-to-use internet search engine and showcase for scientific papers published since 1984 in the English-language journal of the Zoological Society of Japan (Zoological Science). These papers include over 4,000 peer-reviewed articles on a great diversity of over 13,000 different species of animals.
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