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Molecular Anthropology Lab
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The lab explores molecular anthropology and evolution using medaka.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring human evolution at the molecular level through medaka
The Molecular Anthropology Lab (Associate Professor Takafumi Katsumura) has experimental population genetics, epigenetics, medaka, human evolution, and molecular evolution as its research themes.
Kyushu University's researcher information lists the research fields as animal physiological chemistry, physiology, ethology, diversity biology, taxonomy, physical anthropology, and genetics.
In 2026, Associate Professor Katsumura published a paper examining the relationship between seasonal changes in intestinal length and DNA methylation in medaka.
Key terms
- Phenotypic plasticity
- The ability of an organism to change its physical traits (phenotype) in response to changes in the environment
- DNA methylation
- A chemical modification in which methyl groups are attached to DNA. In this research, the lab examines the sites involved in seasonal changes in intestinal length
ResearchResearch themes
Associate Professor Katsumura lists experimental population genetics, epigenetics, medaka, human evolution, and molecular evolution as research themes. Recent papers include one examining the relationship between seasonal changes in intestinal length and DNA methylation in medaka.
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- Associate ProfessorTakafumi Katsumura
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Southern medaka (Mageshima)” Ffish.asia / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mathematical Biology Lab): “Maritime beacon and a flock of birds on the silt at sunrise, Parque Tejo, Lisbon, Portugal julesvernex2” Jules Verne Times Two / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mathematical Biology Lab): “Evolution of horses limbs” Anastasiya Kurilova / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physiological Anthropology Lab (Takayuki Nishimura)): “Tibetan Plateau landscape” Jan Kranendonk (https://www.jankranendonk.nl) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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