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Animal Genetics and Breeding Lab
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The lab explores the genetics and breeding of animals such as livestock and laboratory animals.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring animal diversity through genetics and breeding science
The Animal Genetics and Breeding Lab studies livestock and poultry, laboratory animals, and wild animals, with genetics and breeding science as its two pillars.
In addition to basic research on elucidating genetic phenomena and on the genetic diversity and evolution of animals, the lab pursues applied research aimed at developing new model animals, breeding useful animals, and conserving, discovering, and utilizing genetic resources of native livestock breeds and wild animals.
Recently, the lab has been using approaches such as molecular biology, quantitative genetics, and genomics, conducting research with a broad perspective that spans molecules and cells to individuals and populations.
The lab welcomes people who are interested in genetics and highly motivated to pursue creative research on their own, and it respects each student's preferences when choosing a research theme as far as possible.
Key terms
- Poultry
- Birds kept by people, such as chickens
- Quantitative genetics
- The field that studies how traits that can be expressed as numbers, such as body size, are determined by heredity
- Native livestock
- Livestock breeds and populations that have been kept in a region since long ago
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award from the Japan Poultry Science Association
A paper by Associate Professor Ishikawa and colleagues was published in GENES
A paper by Associate Professor Ishikawa and colleagues was published in The Journal of Poultry Science
A paper by Associate Professor Ishikawa and colleagues was published in POULTRY SCIENCE
A paper by Associate Professor Ishikawa and colleagues was published in Animals
ResearchResearch themes
The Animal Genetics and Breeding Lab conducts basic research on elucidating genetic phenomena and on the genetic diversity and evolution of animals, studying livestock and poultry, laboratory animals, and wild animals. It also carries out applied research aimed at developing new model animals, breeding useful animals, and conserving and utilizing genetic resources of native livestock breeds and wild animals.
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The members of the Animal Genetics and Breeding Lab consist of faculty, fixed-term staff, part-time staff, and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKenta Sumiyama
- Associate ProfessorAkira Ishikawa
- Assistant ProfessorTakahiro Yamagata
- Assistant ProfessorAkira Tanabe
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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: “Herd out to pasture - geograph.org.uk - 847953” Maurice Pullin / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Integrative Animal Physiology Lab): “Coturnix japonica, Yehliu, Taiwan 1” 孫鋒 林 from Taipei, Taiwan / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Animal Production Science Lab): “Dairy Cattle Feeding on a Farm Saline Township Michigan” Dwight Burdette / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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