updated on \(2022/02/08\)

HUE & Kobe U. Freshwater Biology Team

Member

Dr. Akio Imamura (President)

Dr. Toshifumi Minamoto (Co-president)

Dr. Masayuki K. Sakata (Researcher)

Aims and Scope

• Conservation of freshwater organisms, focusing especially on salmonid fish.

• Using environmental DNA (eDNA) and environmental RNA (eRNA) analyses, we are studying to reveal species composition, community structure, and abundance of freshwater fish.

• We worry about negative effects on the native community by the domestic and exotic invasive organisms introduced through various human activities.

• We are studying mainly around the Ishikari River Basin in Hokkaido Island in Japan.

Papers as our outcomes

• Minamoto T, Hayami K, Sakata MK, Imamura A (2019) Real-time polymerase chain reaction assays for environmental DNA detection of three salmonid fish in Hokkaido, Japan: Application to winter surveys. Ecological Research, 34:237–242.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.1018

• Imamura A, Hayami K, Sakata MK, Minamoto T (2019) Are Salvelinus species on Hokkaido Island, Japan, endangered by damming and invasive rainbow trout: Results from eDNA analysis (in Japanese). Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology 24 : 71-81

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.18960/hozen.24.1_71

• Imamura A, Hayami K, Sakata MK, Minamoto T (2020) Environmental DNA revealed the fish community of Hokkaido Island, Japan, after invasion by rainbow trout. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e56876.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e56876

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Grant title

• Pro Natura Foundation Japan’s 27th Pro Natura Fund to A.I.

• Pro Natura Foundation Japan’s 29th Pro Natura Fund to A.I.

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (JP20H03326) from JSPS KAKENHI to T.M.

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