PUBLICATIONS
2024
- Fujimoto, S., Sumarto, B., Murase, I., Mokodongan, D., Myosho, T., Yagi, M., Ansai, S., Kitano, J., Takeda, S., and Yamahira, K. (2024) Evolution of size-fecundity relationship in medaka fish from different latitudes. Molecular Ecology in press
- 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
- 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 in press
2023
- 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
- 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
2022
- 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
2021
- 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 34:1767-1780
- 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
- 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
- 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 [Open
Access]
- Ravinet, M., Kume, M., Ishikawa, A., and Kitano, J. (2021)
Patterns of genomic divergence and introgression between Japanese
stickleback species with overlapping breeding habitats. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 34: 114-127 [Open
Access]
2020
- 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 [Open
Access]
- 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 [PDF]
- 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 [Open
Access]
- Ishikawa, A., and Kitano, J. (2020) Diversity in reproductive
seasonality in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus
aculeatus. Journal
of Experimental Biology 223: jeb208975 [PDF]
2019
- 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 [Open
Access]
- 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 [PDF]
- 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 [PDF]
- 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 [PDF]
- 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 [Open
Access]
- Dixon, G., Kitano, J., and Kirkpatrick, M. (2019) The origin of a
new sex chromosome by introgression between two stickleback fishes.
Molecular
Biology and Evolution 36: 28–38 [Open
Access]
- Yoshida, K., Ishikawa, A., Toyoda, A., Shigenobu, S., Fujiyama,
A., and Kitano, J. (2019) Functional divergence of a
heterochromatin-binding protein during stickleback speciation. Molecular
Ecology 28: 1563–1578
- Kitano, J., Ishikawa, A., Kusakabe, M. (2019) Parallel
transcriptome evolution in stream threespine sticklebacks. Development,
Growth & Differentiation 61: 104-113 [Open
Access]
2018
- 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 [Open
Access]
- Sardell, J. M., Cheng, C., Dagilis, A. J., Ishikawa, A., Kitano,
J. Peichel, C. L., and Kirkpatrick, M. (2018) Sex differences in
recombination in sticklebacks. G3:
Genes, Genomes, Genetics 8: 1971-1983 [Open
Access]
- 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 [Open
Access]
- One of the top 100 ecology papers in 2018!
- 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
2017
- 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 Kitano, J. (2017) Accumulation of
deleterious mutations on the neo-Y chromosome of Japan Sea
stickleback (Gasterosteus
nipponicus). Journal
of Heredity 108: 63-68 [FREE]
2016
- 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
- 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 [PDF]
- Kitano, J. and Mori, S. (2016) Toward conservation of genetic and
phenotypic diversity in Japanese sticklebacks. Genes
and Genetic Systems 91: 77-84 [FREE]
- 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 [Open
Access]
- 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 [FREE]
2015
- 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 [Open
Access]
- 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? Sex chromosome
fusions in fishes and reptiles. PLoS
Genetics 11: e1005237 [Open
Access]
- 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 [FREE]
- Rezansoff, A., Crispo, E., Blair, C., Kitano, J., Vamosi, S., and
Rogers, S.M. (2015) Toward the genetic origins of a potentially
non-native population of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus
aculeatus) in Alberta. Conservation
Genetics 16: 859-873
2014
- 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 [Open
Access]
- 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 [Open
Access]
- One of the most highly cited!
- 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 [Open
Access]
- Yoshida, K., Makino, T., Yamaguchi, K., Shigenobu, S., Hasebe, M.,
Kawata, M., Kume, M., Mori, S., Peichel, C. L., Toyoda, A.,
Fujiyama, A., and Kitano, J. (2014) Sex chromosome turnover
contributes to genomic divergence between incipient stickleback
species. PLOS
Genetics 10(3): e1004223 [Open
Access]
- Kitano, J., Ishikawa, A., and Lema, S. C. (2014) Integrated
genomics approaches in evolutionary and ecological endocrinology.
In: Ecological
Genomics (Landry, C. and Aubin-Horth, N. Ed.) p. 299-319.
Springer
2013
- 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 [FREE]
- 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 [Open
Access]
- 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 [PDF]
- 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 [PDF]
- 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 [PDF]
- Lema, S. C., Kitano J. (2013) Hormones and phenotypic plasticity:
implications for the evolution of integrated adaptive phenotypes. Current
Zoology 59: 506–525 [FREE]
2012
- 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 [Open
Access]
- Yoshida, K. and Kitano, J. (2012). The contribution of female
meiotic drive to the evolution of neo-sex chromosomes. Evolution
66: 3198-3208 [Open
Access]
- 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
[Open
Access]
- 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. [Open
Access]
- Kitano, J. and C.L. Peichel (2012). Turnover of sex chromosomes
and speciation in fishes. Environmental Biology of
Fishes 94:549-558. [Open
Access]
- Kitano, J., S. Mori, and C. L. Peichel (2012). Reduction of sexual
dimorphism in stream-resident forms of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus
aculeatus L.). Journal of Fish Biology
80:131-146.
2011
- 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
[Open
Access]
2010
- 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.
[FREE]
- Featured in Current Biology Dispatch, Kahoku Shimpo
- 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 [FREE]
2009
- 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
- Featured in Nature News, Nature Making the paper, Nature
podcast, Leading Edge in Cell, Kyodo, etc.
2008
- Kitano, J., D.I. Bolnick, D. A. Beauchamp, M. M. Mazur, S. Mori,
T. Nakano, and C. L. Peichel (2008). Reverse evolution of armor
plates in the threespine stickleback. Current Biology
18: 769-774. [FREE]
- Featured in Discovery News, National Geographic News, Science
Daily Com, Seattle Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer, 710
KIRO-TV etc.
- Kitano, J., S. Mori, and C. L. Peichel (2008). Divergence of male
courtship displays between sympatric forms of anadromous threespine
stickleback. Behaviour 145: 443-461.
- Kitano, J., S. Mori, and C. L. Peichel (2007). Phenotypic
divergence and reproductive isolation between sympatric forms of
Japanese threespine stickleback. Biological Journal of
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