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National Institute of Genetics: Mishima, Shizuoka, JP

2015-04-01 to present | Professor (Department of Genomics and Evolutionary Biology)
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Jun Kitano

National Institute of Genetics: Mishima, Shizuoka, JP

2011-02-01 to 2015-03-31 | Project Associate Professor (Center for Frontier Research)
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Jun Kitano

Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University: Sendai, Miyagi, JP

2009-08-01 to 2011-01-31 | Assistant Professor (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
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Jun Kitano

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: Seattle, Washington, US

2003-04-01 to 2009-07-31 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Division of Human Biology)
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Jun Kitano

Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University: Kyoto, Kyoto, JP

2001-11-01 to 2002-03-31 | Instructor (Department of Molecular and System Biology)
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Jun Kitano

Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University: Kyoto, Kyoto, JP

2000-04-01 to 2001-10-31 | Research Fellow (Department of Molecular and System Biology)
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Jun Kitano

Education and qualifications (2)

Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine: Kyoto, Kyoto, JP

1996-04-01 to 2000-03-31
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Jun Kitano

Kyoto University School of Medicine: Kyoto, Kyoto, JP

1990-04-01 to 1996-03-31
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Jun Kitano

Works (32)

Convergent Evolution and Predictability of Gene Copy Numbers Associated with Diets in Mammals

Genome Biology and Evolution
2025-02-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Kayla Wilhoit; Shun Yamanouchi; Bo-Jyun Chen; Yo Y Yamasaki; Asano Ishikawa; Jun Inoue; Wataru Iwasaki; Jun Kitano; Carina Mugal
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Evolution of Size‐Fecundity Relationship in Medaka Fish From Different Latitudes

Molecular Ecology
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Shingo Fujimoto; Bayu K. A. Sumarto; Iki Murase; Daniel F. Mokodongan; Taijun Myosho; Mitsuharu Yagi; Satoshi Ansai; Jun Kitano; Satoshi Takeda; Kazunori Yamahira
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Repositioning of centromere‐associated repeats during karyotype evolution in Oryzias fishes

Molecular Ecology
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Satoshi Ansai; Atsushi Toyoda; Kohta Yoshida; Jun Kitano
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Evolution and genetic basis of size-fecundity relationship in medaka fish

2024-09-03 | Preprint
Contributors: Shingo Fujimoto; Bayu Sumarto; Iki Murase; Daniel Mokodongan; Taijun Myosho; Mitsuharu Yagi; Satoshi Ansai; Jun Kitano; Satoshi Takeda; Kazunori Yamahira
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Causative genes of intrinsic hybrid incompatibility in animals and plants: what we have learned about speciation from the molecular perspective

Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society
2024-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jun Kitano; Genta Okude
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Mechanisms of Intrinsic Postzygotic Isolation: From Traditional Genic and Chromosomal Views to Genomic and Epigenetic Perspectives

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Radka Reifová; S. Lorena Ament-Velásquez; Yann Bourgeois; Jenn Coughlan; Jonna Kulmuni; Agnieszka P. Lipinska; Genta Okude; Laurie Stevison; Kohta Yoshida; Jun Kitano
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Strontium isotope analysis of otoliths reveals differences in the habitat salinity among three sympatric stickleback species of the genus Pungitius

Ecology and Evolution
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Konomi Uji; Asano Ishikawa; Ki‐Cheol Shin; Ichiro Tayasu; Jun Kitano
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Do sex-linked male meiotic drivers contribute to intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities? Recent empirical studies from flies and rodents

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Jun Kitano; Kohta Yoshida
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Plate reduction in southern Japanese freshwater populations of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Ecology and Evolution
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Hiyu Kanbe; Takuya K. Hosoki; Tomoyuki Kokita; Seiichi Mori; Jun Kitano
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Diversity of sex chromosomes in Sulawesian medaka fishes

Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Satoshi Ansai; Javier Montenegro; Kawilarang W. A. Masengi; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kazunori Yamahira; Jun Kitano
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Genetic basis for the evolution of pelvic‐fin brooding, a new mode of reproduction, in a Sulawesian fish

Molecular Ecology
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Javier Montenegro; Shingo Fujimoto; Satoshi Ansai; Atsushi J. Nagano; Masahiro Sato; Yusuke Maeda; Rieko Tanaka; Kawilarang W. A. Masengi; Ryosuke Kimura; Jun Kitano et al.
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Convergent copy number increase of genes associated with freshwater colonization in fishes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-07-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Asano Ishikawa; Shun Yamanouchi; Wataru Iwasaki; Jun Kitano
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Genetic basis of speciation and adaptation: from loci to causative mutations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-07-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Jun Kitano; Asano Ishikawa; Mark Ravinet; Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
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Speciation and adaptation research meets genome editing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-07-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Satoshi Ansai; Jun Kitano
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Local Adaptation and the Evolution of Genome Architecture in Threespine Stickleback

Genome Biology and Evolution
2022-05-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Qiushi Li; Dorothea Lindtke; Carlos Rodríguez-Ramírez; Ryo Kakioka; Hiroshi Takahashi; Atsushi Toyoda; Jun Kitano; Rachel L. Ehrlich; Joshua Chang Mell; Sam Yeaman et al.
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Construction of a chromosome-level Japanese stickleback species genome using ultra-dense linkage analysis with single-cell sperm sequencing

NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
2022-03-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Kazutoshi Yoshitake; Asano Ishikawa; Ryo Yonezawa; Shigeharu Kinoshita; Jun Kitano; Shuichi Asakawa
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Diversity of sex chromosomes in Sulawesian medaka fishes

2022-03-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Satoshi Ansai; Javier Montenegro; Kawilarang W.A. Masengi; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kazunori Yamahira; Jun Kitano
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Copy number variation of a fatty acid desaturase gene Fads2 associated with ecological divergence in freshwater stickleback populations

Biology Letters
2021-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Asano Ishikawa; Yoel E. Stuart; Daniel I. Bolnick; Jun Kitano
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The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification

Ecology Letters
2021-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Cornelia W. Twining; Joey R. Bernhardt; Alison M. Derry; Cameron M. Hudson; Asano Ishikawa; Naoki Kabeya; Martin J. Kainz; Jun Kitano; Carmen Kowarik; Sarah Nemiah Ladd et al.
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Multiple paths to the same destination: Influence of gene flow on convergent evolution

Molecular Ecology
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Yo Y. Yamasaki; Jun Kitano
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Genetic basis for variation in the number of cephalic pores in a hybrid zone between closely related species of goby, Gymnogobius breunigii and Gymnogobius castaneus

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
2021-04-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Ryo Kakioka; Manabu Kume; Asano Ishikawa; Satoshi Ansai; Takuya K Hosoki; Yo Y Yamasaki; Atsushi J Nagano; Atsushi Toyoda; Jun Kitano
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Tempo and mode in karyotype evolution revealed by a probabilistic model incorporating both chromosome number and morphology

PLOS Genetics
2021-04-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Kohta Yoshida; Alex Buerkle; Jun Kitano
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Patterns of genomic divergence and introgression between Japanese stickleback species with overlapping breeding habitats

Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Mark Ravinet; Manabu Kume; Asano Ishikawa; Jun Kitano
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Multiple waves of freshwater colonization of the three-spined stickleback in the Japanese Archipelago

BMC Evolutionary Biology
2020-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Ryo Kakioka; Seiichi Mori; Tomoyuki Kokita; Takuya K. Hosoki; Atsushi J. Nagano; Asano Ishikawa; Manabu Kume; Atsushi Toyoda; Jun Kitano
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Multiple waves of freshwater colonization of the three-spined stickleback in the Japanese Archipelago

2020-10-30 | Preprint
Contributors: Ryo Kakioka; Seiichi Mori; Tomoyuki Kokita; Takuya K Hosoki; Atsushi J Nagano; Asano Ishikawa; Manabu Kume; Atsushi Toyoda; Jun Kitano
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Multiple waves of freshwater colonization of the three-spined stickleback in the Japanese Archipelago

2020-09-30 | Preprint
Contributors: Ryo Kakioka; Seiichi Mori; Tomoyuki Kokita; Takuya K Hosoki; Atsushi J Nagano; Asano Ishikawa; Manabu Kume; Atsushi Toyoda; Jun Kitano
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Differences in the contributions of sex linkage and androgen regulation to sex‐biased gene expression in juvenile and adult sticklebacks

Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2020-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Jun Kitano; Ryo Kakioka; Asano Ishikawa; Atsushi Toyoda; Makoto Kusakabe
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Genome-wide patterns of divergence and introgression after secondary contact between Pungitius sticklebacks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020-08-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Yo Y. Yamasaki; Ryo Kakioka; Hiroshi Takahashi; Atsushi Toyoda; Atsushi J. Nagano; Yoshiyasu Machida; Peter R. Møller; Jun Kitano
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Multiple waves of freshwater colonization of the three-spined stickleback in the Japanese Archipelago

2020-08-24 | Preprint
Contributors: Ryo Kakioka; Seiichi Mori; Tomoyuki Kokita; Takuya K Hosoki; Atsushi J Nagano; Asano Ishikawa; Manabu Kume; Atsushi Toyoda; Jun Kitano
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Diversity in reproductive seasonality in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus

Journal of Experimental Biology
2020-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Asano Ishikawa; Jun Kitano; Michael H. Dickinson; Leslie B. Vosshall; Julian A. T. Dow
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Functional divergence of a heterochromatin‐binding protein during stickleback speciation

Molecular Ecology
2019-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Kohta Yoshida; Asano Ishikawa; Atsushi Toyoda; Shuji Shigenobu; Asao Fujiyama; Jun Kitano
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Parallel transcriptome evolution in stream threespine sticklebacks

Development, Growth & Differentiation
2019-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jun Kitano; Asano Ishikawa; Makoto Kusakabe
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Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Nature communications (1)
Review activity for Nature ecology & evolution. (1)