Exploring Patterns and Extent of Bias in Estimating Divergence Time from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data in a Particular Lineage: A Case Study of Salamanders (Order Caudata)

Yuchi Zheng, Rui Peng, Masaki Kuro‐o, +1

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Germ line-restricted, highly repeated DNA sequences and their chromosomal localization in a Japanese hagfish (Eptatretus okinoseanus)

Souichirou Kubota, Masaki Kuro‐o, Shigeki Mizuno, +1

Chromosoma

BiologyPhylogeneticsMolecular EcologyChromosomal LocalizationComparative Genomics +12

Review of the systematics, morphology and distribution of Asian Clawed Salamanders, genus Onychodactylus (Amphibia, Caudata: Hynobiidae), with the description of four new species

Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jing Che, MI‐SOOK MIN, +5

Zootaxa

Animal TaxonomyGeneticsTaxonomyZoological TaxonomyAnatomy +20

A reinvestigation of phylogeny and divergence times of Hynobiidae (Amphibia, Caudata) based on 29 nuclear genes

Meng-Yun Chen, Rong-Li Mao, Dan Liang, +3

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

BiologyMorphological EvidenceBiodiversityPhylogeneticsMolecular Ecology +10

Mosaic gene conversion after a tandem duplication of mtDNA sequence in Diomedeidae (albatrosses)

Masaki Eda, Masaki Kuro‐o, Hiroyoshi Higuchi, +2

Genes & Genetic Systems

Comparative GenomicsGeneticsMolecular GeneticsGenomicsPhylogenetics +16

Unexpectedly high genetic diversity of mtDNA control region through severe bottleneck in vulnerable albatross Phoebastria albatrus

Masaki Kuro‐o, Hiromichi Yonekawa, Shigeru Saito, +4

Conservation Genetics

BiologyGenetic DiversityHigh Genetic DiversityConservation GeneticsPhylogenetics +11

Inferring the ancient population structure of the vulnerable albatross Phoebastria albatrus, combining ancient DNA, stable isotope, and morphometric analyses of archaeological samples

Masaki Eda, Hiroko Koike, Masaki Kuro‐o, +3

Conservation Genetics

PhylogeneticsMolecular EcologyNatural SciencesEvolutionary BiologyAncient Population Structure +4

Occurrence of Cryptosporidium sp. in snakes in Japan

Toshiro Kuroki, Shinji Izumiyama, Kenji Yagita, +8

Parasitology Research

Parasitic DiseaseParasitic ProtozoaZoonotic DiseaseCryptosporidium SpParasitology

Germ line-restricted supernumerary (B) chromosomes in <i>Eptatretus okinoseanus</i>

Satoshi Kubota, Y. Nakai, Masaki Kuro‐o, +1

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

BiologyGerm CellCell DivisionCytogeneticsType B +13

Cytogenetic studies of Hynobiidae (Urodela)

Masaki Kuro‐o, Chikako Ikebe, S. Kohno

Cytogenetic and Genome Research