From People - School of Science, The University of Tokyo

河村 正二 (かわむら しょうじ)
KAWAMURA, Shoji

Title	Professor
Affiliation	Department of Biological Sciences(Anthropology), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
Room	502, Bioscineces GSFS Bldg., 5F
TEL	+81-4-7136-5422 65422 (ext.)

Research Field

Evolutionary Genetics

Research Subject

Study on evolution of visual pigment genes focusing on primates and fish

Current Research

My research aims to clarify how the varieties of color vision have evolved in vertebrates. Focusing on the visual pigments in the retina, I am trying to clarify their diversity mainly examining primates and fish. I am studying repertoires of visual opsin genes as well as their expression mechanisms. In addition, I conduct a fieldwork to investigate the relation between evolution of animal behaviors and color vision in New World monkeys that live in Central and South America.

Keywords

Visual Pigment, Opsin, Primate, Fish, Color Vision, Evolution, New World monkey, Zebrafish, Medaka, GFP