From People - School of Science, The University of Tokyo

Research Field

Classification and Evolution of Eukaryotic Plants

Research Subject

Descriptive Taxonomy, Evolutionary Biology of Sexuality, Origin and Macrotaxonomy of Eukaryotic Plants

Current Research

Aiming at the clarification of diversity of eukaryotic plants and mechanism of cellular evolution,　we are conducting taxonomic investigations of eukaryotic plants at the species level as well as evolutionary studies using morphological and molecular data in order to resolve fundamental biological problems. Using the colonial volvocalean algae, origin of male-female sexuality is now unveiling at molecular and genome levels. In order to understand the process from the cyanobacterial endosymbiosis to the birth of the eukaryotic plants, we are also investigating the macrophylogeny of eukaryotes based on genome analysis.

Keywords

Cultivated Strain, Cell Morphology, Ulrastructure, Descriptive Taxonomy, Eukaryotic Plants, Macrotaxonomy, Sex, Sexuality, Sex Determination Gene, Evolution, Diversity, Molecular Phylogeny

Links

• Laboratory of Evolutionary Botany