Jun Kitano

1. Contact information

Ecological Genetics Laboratory
Department of Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
National Institute of Genetics
Yata 1111, Mishima
Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
Office phone: +81-55-981-9415
E-mail: jkitano@nig.ac.jp

2. Education, Professional Training, and Employment

1996	M.D. (Kyoto University School of Medicine)
2002	Ph.D. Physiology (Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine)
2000-2003	Research Fellow (2000-2001) and Instructor (2001-2003) at the Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Molecular and System Biology, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University (Japan)
2003-2009	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (USA)
2009-2011	Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University (Japan)
2011-2015	Project Associate Professor, Ecological Genetics Laboratory, Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics (Japan)
2015-2018	Professor, Division of Ecological Genetics, Department of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics (Japan)
2019-present	Professor, Ecological Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genomics and Evolutionary Biology, National Institute of Genetics (Japan)

3. Other appointments

2010-2016	Editorial Board of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2010-2014	PRESTO Researcher of the JST Epigenetics Research Program
2011-	Reviewing Editor of Zoological Science
2011	Adjunct Lecturer of Ecological Genetics Course, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2011-	Associate Professor of the Department of Genetics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)
2012	Lecturer of the Quantitative Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics Course (QECG) 2012 at OIST
2014	Lecturer of Hokkaido University
2014-	Associate Editor of Zoological Letters
2015	Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University
2016-2017	International Associate Editor of Integrative and Comparative Biology
2016	Editorial Board of Axios Review
2017	Lecturer of Nagoya University
2019	Lead Editor of Stickleback Special Issue in Evolutionary Ecology Research
2020	Associate Editor of Genes to Cells
2021	Deciding Editor of Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2021	Guest Editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

4. Honors

2010	Young Scientist Initiative Award, Society for Evolutionary Studies, Japan
2010	Young Investigator Prize, The Zoological Society of Japan
2011	MEXT Young Investigator Prize, Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology, Japan
2015	JSPS Prize
2020	Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award
2021	Inoue Prize for Science

5. Grant Support (selected)

2022-2026	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) from the Ministry of Science, Education, Sports, and Culture. "Ecological genetic mechanisms of speciation in natural populations" (22H04983)
2020-2025	JST CREST "Genomic structures and speciation"
2020-2023	Asahi Glass Foundation "Speciation experiments in nature"
2019-2021	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) from the Ministry of Science, Education, Sports, and Culture. "Genetic basis for variation in the ability to colonize new niches" (19H01003)
2016-2018	Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research. "Experimental evolution of neo-sex chromosomes" (16K15792)
2015-2018	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) from the Ministry of Science, Education, Sports, and Culture. "Genetic basis for key traits important for stickleback freshwater adaptation" (15H02418)
2014-2017	Asahi Glass Foundation "Experimental tests of adaptive radiation in artificial ponds"
2012-2015	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Science, Education, Sports, and Culture. "Genetic mechanisms of diversification of sexual dimorphism in fishes" (24370039)
2012-2014	The Environment Research and Technology Development Fund from the Ministry of the Environment. "Genetic surveys to estimate the risk of animal extinction in the areas struck by the big tsumani"
2011-2015	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Science, Education, Sports, and Culture. "Molecular mechanisms of genomic incompatibility and reproductive isolation between stickleback species" (23113007)
2010-2014	Japan Science ad Technology Agency (JST) PRESTO Epigenetic control and biological functions. "Evolution of diversity in epigenetic control"
2010-2012	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from the Ministry of Science, Education, Sports, and Culture. "Genetic mechanisms of speciation in sticklebacks" (22770075)
2011	Inamori Foundation "Identification of speciation genes"
2011	Asahi Glass Foundation "Host adaptation to new pathogens"
2010	Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Grant "Effects of sex chromosome translocation on genome evolution and gene expression"
2010	Brain Science Foundation Research Grant　"Sex chromosome translocation and behavioral evolution"
2010	Takeda Life Science Foundation Research Grant "Hormonal variation between stickleback populations"
2010	The Naito Foundation "Natural variation in the hormonal signaling involved in regulation of life span"
2009	Research Grant for Young Investigator, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences "Sex chromosome translocation and speciation in sticklebacks"

6. Publications

Kitano, J. and Okude, G. (2024) Causative genes of intrinsic hybrid incompatibility in animals and plants: What we have learned about speciation from the molecular perspective. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society in press
Gotoh, H., Ohtsu, I., Umino, T., Yamasaki, Y.Y., Minakuchi, Y., Ito, T., Toyoda, A. and Kitano, J. (2024) Induction of male-like mandibles in XX individuals of a stag beetle by gene knockdown of a feminizer gene transformer. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B in press
Okude, G., Yamasaki, Y. Y., Toyoda, A., Mori, S., and Kitano, J. (2024) Genome-wide analysis of histone modifications can contribute to the identification of candidate cis-regulatory regions in the threespine stickleback fish. BMC Genomics 25: 685
Ansai, S., Toyoda, A., Yoshida, K., and Kitano, J. (2023) Repositioning of centromere-associated repeats during karyotype evolution in Oryzias fishes. Molecular Ecology in press
Kitano, J., Ansai, S., Takehana, Y., and Yamamoto, Y. (2024) Diversity and convergence of sex determination mechanisms in teleost fish. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 12: 233-259
Delmore, K., Justen, H., Kay, K. M., Kitano, J., Moyle, L. C., Stelkens, R., Streisfeld, M. A., Yamasaki, Y. Y., and Ross, J. (2023). Genomic approaches are improving taxonomic representation in genetic studies of speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology in press
Reifová, R., Ament-Velásquez, S. L., Bourgeois, Y., Coughlan, J., Kulmuni, J., Lipinska, A. P., Okude, G., Stevison, L., Yoshida, K., and Kitano, J. (2023) Mechanisms of intrinsic postzygotic isolation: from traditional genic and chromosomal views to genomic and epigenetic perspectives. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology in press
Uji, K., Ishikawa, A., Shin, K.-C., Tayasu, I., and Kitano, J. (2023) Strontium isotope analysis of otoliths reveals differences in the habitat salinity among three sympatric stickleback species of genus Pungitius. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10463
Kitano, J., and Yoshida, K. (2023) Do sex-linked male meiotic drivers contribute to intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities?: Recent empirical studies from flies and rodents. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 81: 102068
Kanbe, H., Hosoki, T. K., Kokita, T., Mori, S., and Kitano, J. (2023) Plate reduction in southern Japanese freshwater populations of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Ecology and Evolution 13: e10077
Mandagi, I., Sumarto, B. K. A., Nuryadi, H., Mokodongan, D. F., Lawelle, S. A., Masengi, K. W. A., Nagano, A. J., Kakioka, R., Kitano, J., Ansai, S., Kusumi, J., and Yamahira, K. (2023) Multiple colonizations and hybridization of a freshwater fish group on a satellite island of Sulawesi. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 184: 107804
Kitano, J., Ansai, S., Fujimoto, S., Kakioka, R., Sato, M., Mandagi, I. F., Sumarto, B. K. A., and Yamahira, K. (2023) A cryptic sex-linked locus revealed by the elimination of a master sex-determining locus in medaka fish. The American Naturalist 202: 231-240
Ansai, S., Montenegro, J., Masengi, K. W. A., Nagano, A. J., Yamahira, K., and Kitano, J. (2022) Diversity of sex chromosomes in Sulawesian medaka fishes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35: 1751-1764
Montenegro, J., Fujimoto, S., Ansai, S., Nagano, A. J., Sato, M., Maeda, Y., Tanaka, R., Masengi, K. W. A., Kimura, R., Kitano, J., and Yamahira, K. (2022) Genetic basis for the evolution of pelvic-fin brooding, a new mode of reproduction, in a Sulawesian fish. Molecular Ecology 31: 3798-3811
Nofrianto, A., Lawelle, S., Mokodongan, D. Masengi, K. W. A., Inomata, N., Hashiguchi, Y., Kitano, J., Sumarto, B., and Yamahira, K. (2022) Ancient admixture in freshwater halfbeaks of the genus Nomorhamphus in southeast Sulawesi. Zoological Science 39: 453-458
Li, Q., Lindtke, D., Rodríguez-Ramírez, C., Kakioka, R., Takahashi, H., Toyoda, A., Kitano, J., Ehrlich, R.L., Mell, J.C., and Yeaman, S. (2022) Local adaptation and the evolution of genome architecture in threespine stickleback. Genome Biology and Evolution 14: evac075
Kitano, J., Ishikawa, A., Ravinet, M., and Courtier-Orgogozo, V. (2022) Genetics basis of speciation and adaptation: From loci to causative mutations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377: 20200503
Ishikawa, A., Yamanouchi, S., Iwasaki, W., and Kitano, J. (2022) Convergent copy number increase of genes associated with freshwater colonisation in fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377: 20200509
Ansai, S., and Kitano, J. (2022) Speciation and adaptation research meets genome editing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377: 20200516
Yoshitake, K., Ishikawa, A., Yonezawa, R., Kinoshita, S., Kitano, J., and Asakawa, S. (2022) Construction of a chromosome-level Japanese stickleback species genome using ultra-dense linkage analysis with single-cell sperm sequencing. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 4: lqac026
Mandagi, I.F., Kakioka, R., Montenegro, J., Kobayashi, H., Masengi, K.W.A., Inomata, N., Nagano, A.J., Toyoda, A., Ansai, S., Matsunami M., Kimura, R., Kitano, J., Kusumi, J., and Yamahira, K. (2021) Species divergence and repeated ancient admixture hybridization in a Sulawesian lake system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34:1767-1780
Ishikawa, A., Yoel, E.S., Bolnick, D.I., and Kitano, J. (2021) Copy number variation of a fatty acid desaturase gene Fads2 associated with ecological divergence in freshwater stickleback populations. Biology Letters 17: 20210204
Yamahira, K., Ansai, S., Kakioka, R., Yaguchi, H., Kon, T., Montenegro, J., Kobayashi, H., Fujimoto, S., Kimura, R., Takehana, Y., Setiamagra, D.H.E., Takami, Y., Tanaka, R., Maeda, K., Tran, H.D., Koizumi, N., Morioka, S., Bounsong, V., Watanabe, K., Musikasinthorn, P., Tun, S., Yun, L.K.C., Masengi, K.W.A., Anoop, V.K., Raghavan, R., and Kitano, J. (2021) Mesozoic origin and ‘out-of-India’ radiation of ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae). Biology Letters 17: 20210212
Twining, C., Bernhardt, J., Derry, A., Cameron, H., Ishikawa, A., Kabeya, N., Kainz, M., Kitano, J., Kowarik, C., Ladd, S. N., Leal, M., Scharnweber, K., Shipley, J., and Matthews, B. (2021) The evolutionary ecology of fatty-acid variation: implications for consumer adaptation and diversification. Ecology Letters 24: 1709–1731
Yamasaki, Y.Y., and Kitano, J. (2021) Perspective: Multiple paths to the same destination: influence of gene flow on convergent evolution. Molecular Ecology 30: 1939-1942
Yoshida, K., and Kitano, J. (2021) Tempo and mode in karyotype evolution revealed by a probabilistic model incorporating both chromosome number and morphology. PLOS Genetics 17: e1009502
Ansai, S., Mochida, K., Fujimoto, S., Mokodongan, D.F., Sumarto, B.K.A., Masengi, K.W.A., Hadiaty, R.K, Nagano, A.J., Toyoda, A., Naruse, K., Yamahira, K., and Kitano. J. (2021) Genome editing reveals fitness effects of a gene for sexual dichromatism in Sulawesian fishes. Nature Communications 12: 1350
Kakioka, R., Kume, M., Ishikawa, A., Ansai, S., Hosoki, T. K., Yamasaki, Y. Y., Nagano, A. J., Toyoda, A., and Kitano, J. (2021) Genetic basis for variation in the number of cephalic pores in a hybrid zone between closely related species of gobies, Gymnogobius breunigii and Gymnogobius castaneus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 143-154
Ravinet, M., Kume, M., Ishikawa, A., and Kitano, J. (2021) Patterns of genomic divergence and introgression between Japanese sticklebackspecies with overlapping breeding habitats. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34: 114-127
Kakioka, R., Mori, S., Kokita, T., Hosoki, T. K., Nagano, A. J., Ishikawa, A., Kume, M., Toyoda, A., and Kitano, J. Multiple waves of freshwater colonization of the three-spined stickleback in the Japanese Archipelago. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: 143
Kitano, J., Kakioka, R., Ishikawa, A., Toyoda, A., and Kusakabe, M. (2020) Differences in the contributions of sex linkage and androgen regulation to sex-biased gene expression in juvenile and adult sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33: 1129-1138
Yamasaki, Y.Y., Kakioka, R., Takahashi, H., Toyoda, A., Nagano, A. J., Machida, Y., Møller, P.R., and Kitano, J. (2020) Genome-wide patterns of divergence and introgression after secondary contact between Pungitius sticklebacks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375: 20190548
Yoshida, K., Ravinet, M., Makino, T., Toyoda, A., Kokita, T., Mori, S., and Kitano, J. (2020) Accumulation of deleterious mutations in landlocked threespine stickleback populations. Genome Biology and Evolution 12: 479-492
Ishikawa, A., and Kitano, J. (2020) Diversity in reproductive seasonality in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb208975
Ishikawa, A., Kabeya, N., Ikeya, K., Kakioka, R., Cech, J. N., Osada, N., Leal, M. C., Inoue, J., Kume, M., Toyoda, A., Tezuka, A., Nagano, A. J., Yamasaki, Y. Y., Suzuki, Y., Kokita, T., Takahashi, H., Lucek, K., Marques, D., Takehana, Y., Naruse, K., Mori, S., Monroig, O., Ladd, N., Schubert, C. J., Matthews, B., Peichel, C. L., Seehausen, O., Yoshizaki, G., and Kitano, J. (2019) A key metabolic gene for recurrent freshwater colonization and radiation in fishes. Science 364: 886-889
Montenegro, J., Mochida, K., Matsui, K., Mokodongan, D. F., Sumarto, B. A., Lawelle, S. A., Nofrianto, A. B., Hadiaty, R. K., Masengi, K. W. A., Yong, L., Inomata, N., Irie, T., Hashiguchi, Y., Terai, Y., Kitano, J., and Yamahira, K. (2019) Convergent evolution of body color between sympatric freshwater fishes via different visual sensory evolution. Ecology and Evolution 9:6389-6398
Kusakabe, M., Mori, S., and Kitano J. (2019) Gill Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase in threespine stickleback: changes in transcript levels and sites of expression during seawater acclimation. Evolutionary Ecology Research 20: 349-363
Hosoki, T., Mori, S., Nishida, S., Kume, M., Sumi, T., and Kitano, J. (2019) Diversity in gill raker number and diets among stickleback populations in novel habitats created by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Evolutionary Ecology Research 20: 213-230
Yamasaki, Y.Y., Mori, S., Kokita, T., and Kitano, J. (2019) Armor plate diversity in Japanese freshwater threespine sticklebacks. Evolutionary Ecology Research 20: 51-67
Webster, M.M., Chouinard-Thuly, L., Herczeg, G., Kitano, J., Riley, R., Rogers, S., Shapiro, M.D., Shikano, T. and Laland, K.N. (2019). A four-questions perspective on public information use in sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae). Royal Society Open Science 6: 181735
Kitano, J., Ishikawa, A., Kusakabe, M. Parallel transcriptome evolution in stream threespine sticklebacks. Development, Growth & Differentiation 61: 104-113
Dixon, G., Kitano, J., and Kirkpatrick, M. (2018) The origin of a new sex chromosome by introgression between two stickleback fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36: 28–38
Yoshida, K., Ishikawa, A., Toyoda, A., Shigenobu, S., Fujiyama, A., and Kitano, J. (2018) Functional divergence of a heterochromatin-binding protein during stickleback speciation. Molecular Ecology 28: 1563–1578
Takeuchi, Y., Ishikawa, A., Oda, Y., and Kitano, J. (2018) Lateralized expression of left-right axis formation genes is shared by adult brains of lefty and righty scale-eating cichlids. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics 28:99-106
Ravinet, M., Yoshida, K., Shigenobu, S., Toyoda, A., Fujiyama, A., and Kitano, J. (2018) Genomic landscape at a late stage of stickleback speciation: high genomic divergence interspersed by small localized regions of introgression. PLoS Genetics 14: e1007358
Sardell, J. M., Cheng, C., Dagilis, A. J., Ishikawa, A., Kitano, J. Peichel, C. L., and Kirkpatrick, M. Sex differences in recombination in sticklebacks. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 8: 1971-1983
Kume, M., Mori, S., Kitano, J., Sumi, T., and Nishida, S. (2018) Impact of the huge 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on the phenotypes and genotypes of Japanese coastal threespine stickleback populations. Scientific Reports 8: 1684
Mokodongan, D. F., Montenegro, J. A., Mochida, K., Fujimoto, S., Ishikawa, A., Kakioka, R., Yong, L., Mulis, Hadiaty, R. K., Mandagi, I. F., Masengi, A. K. W., Wachi, N., Hashiguchi, Y., Kitano, J., and Yamahira, K. (2018) Phylogenomics reveals habitat-associated body shape divergence in Oryzias woworae species group (Teleostei: Adrianichthyidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 118: 194-203
Matsumoto, T., Yoshida, K., and Kitano, J. (2017) Contribution of gene flow to the evolution of recombination suppression in sex chromosomes. Journal of Theoretical Biology 431: 25-31
Kume, M., and Kitano, J. (2017) Genetic and stable isotope analyses of threespine stickleback from the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Ichthyological Research 64: 478–480
Ishikawa, A., Kusakabe, M., Ravinet, M., Yoshida, K., Makino, T., Toyoda, A. Fujiyama, A., and Kitano, J. (2017) Different contributions of local- and distant-regulatory changes to transcriptome divergence between stickleback ecotypes. Evolution 71: 565-581
Kusakabe, M., Ishikawa, A., Ravinet, M., Yoshida, K., Makino, T., Toyoda, A., Fujiyama, A., and Kitano, J. (2017) Genetic basis for variation in salinity tolerance between stickleback ecotypes. Molecular Ecology 26: 304-319
Yoshida, K., Makino, T., and Yoshida, K., Makino, T., and Kitano, J. (2017) Accumulation of deleterious mutations on the neo-Y chromosome of Japan Sea stickleback (Gasterosteus nipponicus). Journal of Heredity 108: 63-68
Matsumoto, T., and Kitano, J. (2016) The intricate relationship between sexually antagonistic selection and the evolution of sex chromosome fusions. Journal of Theoretical Biology 404: 97-108
Yamahira,K., Mochida, K., Fujimoto, S., Mokodongan, D. F., Montenegro Gonzalez, J. A., Kaito, T., Ishikawa, A., Kitano, J., Sue, T., Mulis, Hadiaty, R. K., Mandagi, I. F., Masengi, A. K. W. (2016) New localities of the Oryzias woworae species group (Adrianichthyidae) in Sulawesi Tenggara. Indonesian Journal of Ichthyology 16: 125-131
Kitano, J. and Mori, S. (2016) Toward conservation of genetic and phenotypic diversity in Japanese sticklebacks. Genes and Genetic Systems 91: 77-84
Ravinet, M., Ishikawa, A., and Kitano, J. (2016) Trophic niche differentiation and phenotypic divergence among cryptic species of Japanese ninespine stickleback. Evolutionary Ecology Research 17: 505-523
Yoshida, K., Miyagi, R., Mori, S., Takahashi, A., Makino, T., Toyoda, A., Fujiyama, A., and Kitano, J. (2016) Whole-genome sequencing reveals small genomic regions of introgression in an introduced crater lake population of threespine stickleback. Ecology and Evolution 6: 2190-2204
Ishikawa, A., Kusakabe, M., Kume, M., and Kitano, J. (2016) Comparison of freshwater tolerance during spawning migration between two sympatric Japanese marine threespine stickleback species. Evolutionary Ecology Research 17: 525-534
Kawajiri, M., Fujimoto, S., Yoshida, K., Yamahira, K., and Kitano, J. (2015) Genetic architecture of the variation in male-specific ossified processes on the anal fins of Japanese medaka. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 5: 2875-2884
Matsunami, M., Kitano, J., Kishida, O., Michimae, H., Miura, T., and Nishimura, K. (2015) Transcriptome analysis of predator- and prey-induced phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander (Hynobius retardatus). Molecular Ecology 24: 3064–3076
Pennell, M. W., Kirkpatrick, M., Otto, S. P., Vamosi, J., Peichel, C. L., Valenzuela, N., and Kitano, J. (2015) Y fuse? patterns of sex chromosome fusions in fishes and reptiles. PLoS Genetics 11: e1005237
White, M. A., Kitano, J., and Peichel, C. L. (2015) Purifying selection maintains dosage-sensitive genes during degeneration of the threespine stickleback Y chromosome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32:1981-1995
Rezansoff, A., Crispo, E., Blair, C., Kitano, J., Vamosi, S., and Rogers, S.M. (2015) Towards the genetic origins of an inland and putative alien population of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in Alberta, Canada. Conservation Genetics 16: 859-873
Ravinet, M., Takeuchi, N., Kume, M., Mori, S., and Kitano, J. (2014) Comparative analysis of Japanese three-spined stickleback clades reveals the Pacific Ocean lineage has adapted to freshwater environments while the Japan Sea lineage has not. PLoS ONE 9: e112404
Kawajiri, M., Yoshida, K., Fujimoto, S., Mokodongan, D., Ravinet, M., Kirkpatrick, M., Yamahira, K., and Kitano, J. (2014) Ontogenetic stage-specific quantitative trait loci contribute to divergence in developmental trajectories of sexually dimorphic fins between medaka populations. Molecular Ecology 23: 5258-5275
Fujimoto, S., Kawajiri, M., Kitano, J., and Yamahira, K. (2014) Female mate preference for longer fins in medaka. Zoological Science 31: 703-708
Kusakabe, M., Ishikawa, A., and Kitano, J. (2014) Relaxin-related gene expression differs between anadromous and stream-resident stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) following seawater transfer. General and Comparative Endocrinology 205: 197-206
Ashman, T. L., Bachtrog, D., Blackmon, H., Goldberg, E., Hahn, M., Kirkpatrick, M., Kitano, J., Mank, J., Mayrose, I., Ming, R., Otto, S. P., Peichel, C. L., Pennell, M. W., Perrin, N., Ross, L., Valenzuela, N., and Vamosi, J. C. (2014) Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems. Scientific Data 1: 140015
Bachtrog, D., Mank, J. E., Peichel, C. L., Kirkpatrick, M., Otto, S. P., Ashman, T. L., Hahn, M. W., Kitano, J., Mayrose, I., Ming, R., Perrin, N., Ross, L., Valenzuela, N., and Vamosi, J. C. (2014) Sex determination: Why so many ways of doing it? PLOS Biology 12: e1001899
Kitano, J., Ishikawa, A., and Lema, S. C. (2013) Integrated genomics approaches in evolutionary and ecological endocrinology. In: Ecological Genomics (Landry, C. and Aubin-Horth, N. Ed.) Springer. p. 299-319
Tomimatsu, H., Sasaki, T., Kurokawa, H., Bridle, J. R., Fontaine, C., Kitano, J., Stouffer, D. B., Vellend, M., Bezemer, T. M., Crutsinger, G., Fukami, T., Hadly, E. A., van der Heijden, M. G. A., Kawata, M., Kéfi, S., Kondoh, M., Kraft, N. J. B., McCann, K. S., Montoya, J., Mumby, P., Nakashizuka, T., Petchey, O. L., Romanuk, T., Suding, K. N., Takimoto, G., Urabe, J., Yachi, S. (2013) Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 1124–1130
Lema, S. C., Kitano J. (2013) Hormones and phenotypic plasticity: implications for the evolution of integrated adaptive phenotypes. Current Zoology 59: 506–525
Kitano, J., Yoshida, K., and Suzuki, Y. (2013) RNA sequencing reveals small RNAs differentially expressed between incipient Japanese threespine sticklebacks. BMC Genomics 14(1):214
Cassidy, L. M., Ravinet, M., Mori, S., and Kitano, J. (2013) Are Japanese freshwater populations of threespine stickleback derived from the Pacific Ocean lineage? Evolutionary Ecology Research 15: 295–311
Kitano, J., and Lema, S. C. (2013) Divergence in thyroid hormone levels between juveniles of marine and stream ecotypes of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Evolutionary Ecology Research 15: 143–153
Ishikawa, A., Takeuchi, N., Kusakabe, M., Kume, M., Mori, S., Takahashi, H., and Kitano, J. (2013) Speciation in ninespine sticklebacks: reproductive isolation and phenotypic divergence among cryptic species of Japanese ninespine stickleback. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 1417–1430
Kitano, J., Ishikawa, A., Kume, M., and Mori, S. (2012) Physiological and genetic basis for variation in migratory behavior in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Ichthyological Research 59: 293-303
Yoshida, K. and Kitano, J. (2012). The contribution of female meiotic drive to the evolution of neo-sex chromosomes. Evolution 66: 3198-3208.
Ishikawa, A., and Kitano, J. (2012). Ecological genetics of thyroid hormone physiology in humans and animals. In: Thyroid Hormones (N. K. Agrawal Ed.) p.37-50, InTech.
Adachi, T., A. Ishikawa, S. Mori, W. Makino, M. Kume, M. Kawata, and J. Kitano (2012). Shifts in morphology and diet of non-native sticklebacks introduced into Japanese crater lakes. Ecology and Evolution 2:1083-1098.
Kitano, J., S. Mori, and C. L. Peichel (2011). Reduction of sexual dimorphism in stream-resident forms of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.). Journal of Fish Biology 80:131-146.
Kitano, J. and C.L. Peichel (2011). Turnover of sex chromosomes and speciation in fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 94:549-558.
Kitano, J., Y. Kawagishi, S. Mori, C. L. Peichel, T. Makino, M. Kawata, and M. Kusakabe (2011) Divergence in sex steroid hormone signaling between sympatric species of Japanese threespine stickleback. PLoS ONE 6(12): e29253
Kitano, J., S.C. Lema, J.A. Luckenbach, S. Mori, Y. Kawagishi, M. Kusakabe, P. Swanson, and C.L. Peichel (2010). Adaptive divergence in the thyroid hormone signaling pathway in the stickleback radiation. Current Biology 20: 2124-2130.
Kume, M., J. Kitano, S. Mori, and T. Shibuya. (2010). Ecological divergence and habitat isolation between two migratory forms of Japanese threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 1436-1446
Kitano, J., J.A. Ross, S. Mori, M. Kume, F.C. Jones, Y.F. Chan, D.M. Absher, J. Grimwood, J. Schmutz, R.M. Myers, D.M. Kingsley, and C.L. Peichel (2009). A role for a neo-sex chromosome in stickleback speciation. Nature (Article) 461: 1079-1083
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Kitano, J., S. Mori, and C. L. Peichel (2007). Sexual dimorphism in the external morphology of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Copeia (Official Journal of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 2007 (2): 336-349.
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Kimura, K., J. Kitano, Y. Nakajima, and S. Nakanishi (2004). Hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated HCN2 cation channel forms a protein assembly with multiple neuronal scaffold proteins in distinct modes of protein-protein interaction. Genes to Cells 9: 631-640.
Kitano, J., M. Nishida, Y. Itsukaichi, I. Minami, M. Ogawa, T. Hirano, Y. Mori, and S. Nakanishi (2003). Direct interaction and functional coupling between metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1 and voltage-sensitive Cav2.1 Ca2+ channel. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 25101-25108.
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Kitano, J., K. Kimura, Y. Yamazaki, T. Soda, R. Shigemoto, Y. Nakajima, and S. Nakanishi (2002). Tamalin, a PDZ domain-containing protein, links a protein complex formation of group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors and the guanine nucleotide exchange factor cytohesins. Journal of Neuroscience 22: 1280-1289.
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