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Ohdachi SD, Fujiwara K, Shekhar C, Sơn NT, Suzuki H, Osada N. Phylogenetics and Population Genetics of the Asian House Shrew, Suncus murinus-S. montanus Species Complex, Inferred From Whole-Genome and Mitochondrial DNA Sequences, with Special Reference to the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Zoolog Sci 2024; 41:216-229. [PMID: 38587917 DOI: 10.2108/zs230030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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The house shrew (Suncus murinus-S. montanus species complex) colonized regions across southern Asia and the Indian Ocean following human activity. The house shrew is distributed on islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago, the southernmost part of Japan, but the evolutionary history of the shrew on those islands and possible associations between these populations and humans remain unknown. In this study, we conducted phylogenetic and population genetic analyses based on both nuclear and mitochondrial genome sequences of house shrews. Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial cytochrome b (cytb) sequences revealed that shrews from the Ryukyu Archipelago showed strong genetic affinity to Vietnamese and southern Chinese shrews. Demographic analyses of cytb sequences indicated a rapid population expansion event affecting the haplotype group in Vietnam, southern China, and the Ryukyu Archipelago 3300-7900 years ago. Furthermore, gene flow between Ryukyu (Yonaguni Island) and Taiwan and between Ryukyu and Vietnam inferred from f4 statistics of the nuclear genomes suggested repeated immigration to Ryukyu in recent years. The present study demonstrates that the Nagasaki population has a different origin from the Ryukyu population. These findings elucidate the complex pattern of genetic admixture in house shrews and provide insights into their evolutionary history.
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- Satoshi D Ohdachi
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan,
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources and Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan
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Yano Y, Fukuoka R, Maturana AD, Ohdachi SD, Kita M. Mammalian neurotoxins, Blarina paralytic peptides, cause hyperpolarization of human T-type Ca channel hCa v3.2 activation. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:105066. [PMID: 37468103 PMCID: PMC10493266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023] Open
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Among the rare venomous mammals, the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda has been suggested to produce potent neurotoxins in its saliva to effectively capture prey. Several kallikrein-like lethal proteases have been identified, but the active substances of B. brevicauda remained unclear. Here, we report Blarina paralytic peptides (BPPs) 1 and 2 isolated from its submaxillary glands. Synthetic BPP2 showed mealworm paralysis and a hyperpolarization shift (-11 mV) of a human T-type Ca2+ channel (hCav3.2) activation. The amino acid sequences of BPPs were similar to those of synenkephalins, which are precursors of brain opioid peptide hormones that are highly conserved among mammals. However, BPPs rather resembled centipede neurotoxic peptides SLPTXs in terms of disulfide bond connectivity and stereostructure. Our results suggested that the neurotoxin BPPs were the result of convergent evolution as homologs of nontoxic endogenous peptides that are widely conserved in mammals. This finding is of great interest from the viewpoint of the chemical evolution of vertebrate venoms.
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- Yusuke Yano
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
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Fujiwara K, Ranorosoa MC, Ohdachi SD, Arai S, Sakuma Y, Suzuki H, Osada N. Whole-genome sequencing analysis of wild house mice (<i>Mus musculus</i>) captured in Madagascar. Genes Genet Syst 2022; 97:193-207. [DOI: 10.1266/ggs.22-00090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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- Kazumichi Fujiwara
- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
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- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
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Kikuchi F, Aoki K, Ohdachi SD, Tsuchiya K, Motokawa M, Jogahara T, Sơn NT, Bawm S, Lin KS, Thwe TL, Gamage CD, Ranorosoa MC, Omar H, Maryanto I, Suzuki H, Tanaka-Taya K, Morikawa S, Mizutani T, Suzuki M, Yanagihara R, Arai S. Genetic Diversity and Phylogeography of Thottapalayam thottimvirus ( Hantaviridae) in Asian House Shrew ( Suncus murinus) in Eurasia. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2020; 10:438. [PMID: 32974220 PMCID: PMC7481397 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Murid and cricetid rodents were previously believed to be the principal reservoir hosts of hantaviruses. Recently, however, multiple newfound hantaviruses have been discovered in shrews, moles, and bats, suggesting a complex evolutionary history. Little is known about the genetic diversity and geographic distribution of the prototype shrew-borne hantavirus, Thottapalayam thottimvirus (TPMV), carried by the Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus), which is widespread in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Comparison of TPMV genomic sequences from two Asian house shrews captured in Myanmar and Pakistan with TPMV strains in GenBank revealed that the Myanmar TPMV strain (H2763) was closely related to the prototype TPMV strain (VRC66412) from India. In the L-segment tree, on the other hand, the Pakistan TPMV strain (PK3629) appeared to be the most divergent, followed by TPMV strains from Nepal, then the Indian-Myanmar strains, and finally TPMV strains from China. The Myanmar strain of TPMV showed sequence similarity of 79.3-96.1% at the nucleotide level, but the deduced amino acid sequences showed a high degree of conservation of more than 94% with TPMV strains from Nepal, India, Pakistan, and China. Cophylogenetic analysis of host cytochrome b and TPMV strains suggested that the Pakistan TPMV strain was mismatched. Phylogenetic trees, based on host cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I genes of mitochondrial DNA, and on host recombination activating gene 1 of nuclear DNA, suggested that the Asian house shrew and Asian highland shrew (Suncus montanus) comprised a species complex. Overall, the geographic-specific clustering of TPMV strains in Asian countries suggested local host-specific adaptation. Additional in-depth studies are warranted to ascertain if TPMV originated in Asian house shrews on the Indian subcontinent.
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- Fuka Kikuchi
- Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
- Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Diseases of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Okinawa University, Naha, Japan
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Pharmacology and Parasitology, University of Veterinary Science, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
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- Department of Aquaculture and Aquatic Disease, University of Veterinary Science, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
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- Department of Zoology, Yangon University of Distance Education, Yangon, Myanmar
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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- Mention Foresterie et Environnement, Ecole Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Okayama University of Science, Imabari, Japan
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- Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Diseases of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
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- Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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- Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Hirukawa M, Zhang M, Echenique–Diaz LM, Mizota K, Ohdachi SD, Begué–Quiala G, Delgado–Labañino JL, Gámez–Díez J, Alvarez–Lemus J, Machado LG, Núñez MS, Shibata T, Kigoshi H, Kita M. Isolation and structure–activity relationship studies of jacaranones: Anti-inflammatory quinoids from the Cuban endemic plant Jacaranda arborea (Bignoniaceae). Tetrahedron Lett 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.152005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kozlovskiy EE, Kisleiko AA, Fukuda T, Kawai K, Abramov AV, Ohdachi SD. Records of Sika Deer Cervus nippon from the Southern Kuril Islands in 1986–2019, with Special Reference to a Continuous Record of Living Deer on Kunashir Island Since 2017. Mammal Study 2020. [DOI: 10.3106/ms2020-0008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu-shi 514-8507, Japan
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- Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Minami-ku, Sapporo 005-8601, Japan
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- Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, Saint-Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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Sato JJ, Bradford TM, Armstrong KN, Donnellan SC, Echenique-Diaz LM, Begué-Quiala G, Gámez-Díez J, Yamaguchi N, Nguyen ST, Kita M, Ohdachi SD. Post K-Pg diversification of the mammalian order Eulipotyphla as suggested by phylogenomic analyses of ultra-conserved elements. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 141:106605. [PMID: 31479732 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 08/26/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The origin of the mammalian order Eulipotyphla has been debated intensively with arguments around whether they began diversifying before or after the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary at 66 Ma. Here, we used an in-solution nucleotide capture method and next generation DNA sequencing to determine the sequence of hundreds of ultra-conserved elements (UCEs), and conducted phylogenomic and molecular dating analyses for the four extant eulipotyphlan lineages-Erinaceidae, Solenodontidae, Soricidae, and Talpidae. Concatenated maximum-likelihood analyses with single or partitioned models and a coalescent species-tree analysis showed that divergences among the four major eulipotyphlan lineages occurred within a short period of evolutionary time, but did not resolve the interrelationships among them. Alternative suboptimal phylogenetic hypotheses received consistently the same amount of support from different UCE loci, and were not significantly different from the maximum likelihood tree topology, suggesting the prevalence of stochastic lineage sorting. Molecular dating analyses that incorporated among-lineage evolutionary rate differences supported a scenario where the four eulipotyphlan families diversified between 57.8 and 63.2 Ma. Given short branch lengths with low support values, traces of rampant genome-wide stochastic lineage sorting, and post K-Pg diversification, we concluded that the crown eulipotyphlan lineages arose through a rapid diversification after the K-Pg boundary when novel niches were created by the mass extinction of species.
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- Jun J Sato
- Laboratory of Animal Cell Technology, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Fukuyama University, Higashimuracho, Aza, Sanzo, 985, Fukuyama 729-0292, Japan; School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia; South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia; South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia; South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
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- Environmental Education Center, Miyagi University of Education, Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
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- Unidad Presupuestada Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt (CITMA), Calle Abogado 14 e/12 y 13 Norte, Guantanamo 95200, Cuba
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- Estación Ecológica La Melba, Unidad Presupuestada Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, CITMA-Guantánamo, Cuba
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, PO Box 2713, Doha, Qatar
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources and Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-19 Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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Sanchez L, Ohdachi SD, Kawahara A, Echenique‐Diaz LM, Maruyama S, Kawata M. Acoustic emissions of Sorex unguiculatus (Mammalia: Soricidae): Assessing the echo-based orientation hypothesis. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:2629-2639. [PMID: 30891204 PMCID: PMC6405488 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 12/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Shrew species have been proposed to utilize an echo-based orientation system to obtain additional acoustic information while surveying their environments. This system has been supported by changes in vocal emission rates when shrews encounter different habitats of varying complexity, although detailed acoustic features in this system have not been reported. In this study, behavioral experiments were conducted using the long-clawed shrew (Sorex unguiculatus) to assess this orientation system. Three experimental conditions were set, two of which contained obstacles. Short-click, noisy, and different types of tonal calls in the audible-to-ultrasonic frequency range were recorded under all experimental conditions. The results indicated that shrews emit calls more frequently when they are facing obstacles or exploring the experimental environment. Shrews emitted clicks and several different types of tonal calls while exploring, and modified the use of different types of calls for varying behavior. Furthermore, shrews modified the dominant frequency and duration of squeak calls for different types of obstacles, that is, plants and acrylic barriers. The vocalizations emitted at short inter-pulse intervals could not be observed when shrews approached these obstacles. These results are consistent with the echo-based orientation hypothesis according to which shrews use a simple echo-orientation system to obtain information from their surrounding environments, although further studies are needed to confirm this hypothesis.
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- Lida Sanchez
- Graduate School of Life SciencesTohoku UniversitySendaiJapan
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- Hokkaido Regional Environment OfficeMinistry of EnvironmentSapporoJapan
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- Graduate School of Life SciencesTohoku UniversitySendaiJapan
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Ohdachi SD, Yoshizawa K, Takada Y, Motokawa M, Iwasa MA, Arai S, Moribe J, Uematsu Y, Sakai E, Tateishi T, Oh HS, Kinoshita G. Phylogeography of the Japanese White-Toothed Shrew (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae): A Clear Division of Haplogroups between Eastern and Western Japan and their Recent Introduction to Some Regions. Mammal Study 2018. [DOI: 10.3106/ms2017-0059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Satoshi D. Ohdachi
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 19 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-081
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- Systematic Entomology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-858
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- The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kameino 1866, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-0880, Japan
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- Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Sh
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- Research Center for Wildlife Management, Gifu University, Yanagido 1-1, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Dentistry, Aichi-Gakuin University, Kusumoto-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoy
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- Department of Dental Hygiene, Aichi-Gakuin Junior College, Kusumoto-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8650
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- Faculty of Science Education, Jeju National University, Ara-dong 1, Jeju, Jeju-do 690-756, Republic
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- Laboratory of Forest Biology, Division of Forest & Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agricult
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Ohdachi SD, Kinoshita G, Oda SI, Motokawa M, Jogahara T, Arai S, Nguyen ST, Suzuki H, Katakura K, Bawm S, Min MZ, Thwe TL, Gamage CD, Hashim R, Omar H, Maryanto I, Ghadirian T, Ranorosoa MC, Moribe J, Tsuchiya K. Intraspecific Phylogeny of the House Shrews,Suncus murinus-S. montanusSpecies Complex, Based on the Mitochondrial CytochromebGene. Mammal Study 2016. [DOI: 10.3106/041.041.0408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Namba T, Ohdachi SD. Top-Down Cascade Effects of the Long-Clawed Shrew (Sorex unguiculatus) on the Soil Invertebrate Community in a Cool-Temperate Forest. Mammal Study 2016. [DOI: 10.3106/041.041.0302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Sakuma Y, Ranorosoa MC, Kinoshita G, Shimoji H, Tsuchiya K, Ohdachi SD, Arai S, Tanaka C, Ramino H, Suzuki H. Variation in the Coat-Color-Controlling Genes,Mc1randAsip, in the House MouseMus musculusfrom Madagascar. Mammal Study 2016. [DOI: 10.3106/041.041.0303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Sato JJ, Ohdachi SD, Echenique-Diaz LM, Borroto-Páez R, Begué-Quiala G, Delgado-Labañino JL, Gámez-Díez J, Alvarez-Lemus J, Nguyen ST, Yamaguchi N, Kita M. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of nuclear genes suggests a Cenozoic over-water dispersal origin for the Cuban solenodon. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31173. [PMID: 27498968 PMCID: PMC4976362 DOI: 10.1038/srep31173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
The Cuban solenodon (Solenodon cubanus) is one of the most enigmatic mammals and is an extremely rare species with a distribution limited to a small part of the island of Cuba. Despite its rarity, in 2012 seven individuals of S. cubanus were captured and sampled successfully for DNA analysis, providing new insights into the evolutionary origin of this species and into the origins of the Caribbean fauna, which remain controversial. We conducted molecular phylogenetic analyses of five nuclear genes (Apob, Atp7a, Bdnf, Brca1 and Rag1; total, 4,602 bp) from 35 species of the mammalian order Eulipotyphla. Based on Bayesian relaxed molecular clock analyses, the family Solenodontidae diverged from other eulipotyphlan in the Paleocene, after the bolide impact on the Yucatan Peninsula, and S. cubanus diverged from the Hispaniolan solenodon (S. paradoxus) in the Early Pliocene. The strikingly recent divergence time estimates suggest that S. cubanus and its ancestral lineage originated via over-water dispersal rather than vicariance events, as had previously been hypothesised.
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- Jun J. Sato
- Laboratory of Animal Cell Technology, Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Fukuyama University, Higashimura-cho, Aza, Sanzo, 985, Fukuyama 729-0292, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-19 Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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- Environmental Education Center, Miyagi University of Education, Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
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- Unidad Presupuestada Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt (CITMA), Calle Abogado 14 e/ 12 y 13 Norte, Guantanamo 95200, Cuba
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- Estación Ecológica La Melba, Unidad Presupuestada Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, CITMA-Guantánamo, Cuba
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- Estación Ecológica La Melba, Unidad Presupuestada Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, CITMA-Guantánamo, Cuba
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- Centro de Inspección y Control Ambiental (CICA), Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA), Cuba
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Street, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, PO Box 2713 Doha, Qatar
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences and Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS), University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan
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Arai S, Kang HJ, Gu SH, Ohdachi SD, Cook JA, Yashina LN, Tanaka-Taya K, Abramov SA, Morikawa S, Okabe N, Oishi K, Yanagihara R. Genetic Diversity of Artybash Virus in the Laxmann's Shrew (Sorex caecutiens). Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2016; 16:468-75. [PMID: 27172519 DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2015.1903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Although based on very limited M and L segment sequences, Artybash virus (ARTV) was proposed previously as a unique hantavirus harbored by the Laxmann's shrew (Sorex caecutiens). To verify this conjecture, lung tissues from 68 Laxmann's shrews, captured during 2006 to 2014 in eastern Siberia, Russia, and Hokkaido, Japan, were analyzed for ARTV RNA using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). ARTV RNA was detected in six Laxmann's shrews. Pairwise alignment and comparison of partial- and full-length S, M, and L segment sequences from these Laxmann's shrews, as well as phylogenetic analyses, using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods indicated that ARTV was distinct from other soricine shrew-borne hantaviruses and representative hantaviruses harbored by rodents, moles, and bats. Taxonomic identity of the ARTV-infected Laxmann's shrews was confirmed by full-length cytochrome b mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis. Our data indicate that the hantavirus previously known as Amga virus (MGAV) represents genetic variants of ARTV. Thus, the previously proposed designation of ARTV/MGAV should be replaced by ARTV.
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- Satoru Arai
- 1 Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases , Tokyo, Japan
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- 2 Department of Pediatrics and Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa , Honolulu, Hawaii
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- 2 Department of Pediatrics and Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa , Honolulu, Hawaii
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- 3 Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University , Sapporo, Japan
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- 4 Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- 5 State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector," Koltsovo , Russia
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- 1 Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases , Tokyo, Japan
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- 6 Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals , Novosibirsk, Russia
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- 7 Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- 1 Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases , Tokyo, Japan .,8 Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health , Kanagawa, Japan
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- 1 Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases , Tokyo, Japan
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- 2 Department of Pediatrics and Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa , Honolulu, Hawaii
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Koyabu D, Werneburg I, Morimoto N, Zollikofer CPE, Forasiepi AM, Endo H, Kimura J, Ohdachi SD, Truong Son N, Sánchez-Villagra MR. Mammalian skull heterochrony reveals modular evolution and a link between cranial development and brain size. Nat Commun 2014; 5:3625. [PMID: 24704703 PMCID: PMC3988809 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 03/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The multiple skeletal components of the skull originate asynchronously and their developmental schedule varies across amniotes. Here we present the embryonic ossification sequence of 134 species, covering all major groups of mammals and their close relatives. This comprehensive data set allows reconstruction of the heterochronic and modular evolution of the skull and the condition of the last common ancestor of mammals. We show that the mode of ossification (dermal or endochondral) unites bones into integrated evolutionary modules of heterochronic changes and imposes evolutionary constraints on cranial heterochrony. However, some skull-roof bones, such as the supraoccipital, exhibit evolutionary degrees of freedom in these constraints. Ossification timing of the neurocranium was considerably accelerated during the origin of mammals. Furthermore, association between developmental timing of the supraoccipital and brain size was identified among amniotes. We argue that cranial heterochrony in mammals has occurred in concert with encephalization but within a conserved modular organization.
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- Daisuke Koyabu
- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, Zürich 8006, Switzerland
- The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, Zürich 8006, Switzerland
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- Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, Zürich 8006, Switzerland
- Ianigla, CCT-Mendoza, CONICET, Avda. Ruiz Leal s/n, Mendoza 5500, Argentina
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- The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–742, Korea
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-19 Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Street, Hanoi 10000, Vietnam
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- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, Zürich 8006, Switzerland
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Arai S, Nguyen ST, Boldgiv B, Fukui D, Araki K, Dang CN, Ohdachi SD, Nguyen NX, Pham TD, Boldbaatar B, Satoh H, Yoshikawa Y, Morikawa S, Tanaka-Taya K, Yanagihara R, Oishi K. Novel bat-borne hantavirus, Vietnam. Emerg Infect Dis 2014; 19:1159-61. [PMID: 23763849 PMCID: PMC3713973 DOI: 10.3201/eid1907.121549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Ohdachi SD, Yoshizawa K, Hanski I, Kawai K, Dokuchaev NE, Sheftel BI, Abramov AV, Moroldoev I, Kawahara A. Intraspecific Phylogeny and Nucleotide Diversity of the Least Shrews, theSorex minutissimus-S. yukonicusComplex, Based on Nucleotide Sequences of the Mitochondrial CytochromebGene and the Control Region. Mammal Study 2012. [DOI: 10.3106/041.037.0403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Dokuchaev NE, Kohno N, Ohdachi SD. Reexamination of Fossil Shrews (Sorexspp.) from the Middle Pleistocene of Honshu Island, Japan. Mammal Study 2010. [DOI: 10.3106/041.035.0302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Yamamoto K, Ohdachi SD, Kasahara Y. Detection of effects of a high trophic level predator, Sorex unguiculatus (Soricidae, Mammalia), on a soil microbial community in a cool temperate forest in Hokkaido, using the ARISA method. Microbes Environ 2010; 25:197-203. [PMID: 21576873 DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.me10111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Soil bacteria play important roles as litter decomposers in most terrestrial ecosystems and microbial activity is affected by activities of soil invertebrates. In soil ecosystems of forests in Hokkaido, the long-clawed shrew is an important predator whose preying on soil invertebrates may indirectly affect soil bacterial communities. To estimate indirect top-down effects of shrews on the soil bacterial community, field experiments were conducted using enclosures in which shrews were introduced and removed, and changes in bacterial community composition, species richness, diversity, and evenness were observed using automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA). Abiotic environmental conditions (ambient temperature, soil temperature, soil moisture content and soil pH) were also considered. Bacterial community structure was significantly affected by soil moisture content and soil temperature. The significant causes of the change in bacterial species richness, diversity, and evenness varied among experimental treatments; however, soil moisture tended to have significantly negative effects on these indices in all cases. In the present study, effects of shrews on the bacterial community were not detected.
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- Kana Yamamoto
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-19 Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060–0819, Japan
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Namba T, Ohdachi SD. Diets of the Eurasian Least Shrew (Sorex minutissimus) from Various Localities in Hokkaido, Japan. Mammal Study 2009. [DOI: 10.3106/041.034.0407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Dubey S, Salamin N, Ohdachi SD, Barrière P, Vogel P. Molecular phylogenetics of shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) reveal timing of transcontinental colonizations. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2007; 44:126-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2006] [Revised: 11/08/2006] [Accepted: 12/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Naitoh Y, Iwasa MA, Ohdachi SD, Han SH, Suzuki H. Restriction fragment length polymorphism of nuclear rDNA in Sorex caecutiens/shinto group (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae). Mammal Study 2005. [DOI: 10.3106/1348-6160(2005)30[101:rflpon]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Kita M, Okumura Y, Ohdachi SD, Oba Y, Yoshikuni M, Nakamura Y, Kido H, Uemura D. Purification and characterisation of blarinasin, a new tissue kallikrein-like protease from the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda: comparative studies with blarina toxin. Biol Chem 2005; 386:177-82. [PMID: 15843162 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2005.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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A new tissue kallikrein-like protease, blarinasin, has been purified from the salivary glands of the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda. Blarinasin is a 32-kDa N-glycosylated protease with isoelectric values ranging between 5.3 and 5.7, and an optimum pH of 8.5 for enzyme activity. The cloned blarinasin cDNA coded for a pre-pro-sequence and a mature peptide of 252 amino acids with a catalytic triad typical for serine proteases and 43.7-54.0% identity to other mammalian tissue kallikreins. Blarinasin preferentially hydrolysed Pro-Phe-Arg-4-methylcoumaryl-7-amide (MCA) and N-tert-butyloxycarbonyl-Val-Leu-Lys-MCA, and preferentially converted human high-molecular-weight kininogen (HK) to bradykinin. The activity of blarinasin was prominently inhibited by aprotinin (K(i) =3.4 nM). A similar kallikrein-like protease, the lethal venom blarina toxin, has previously been purified from the salivary glands of the shrew Blarina and shows 67.9% identity to blarinasin. However, blarinasin was not toxic in mice. Blarinasin is a very abundant kallikrein-like protease and represents 70-75% of kallikrein-like enzymes in the salivary gland of B. brevicauda.
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- Masaki Kita
- Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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Kita M, Nakamura Y, Okumura Y, Ohdachi SD, Oba Y, Yoshikuni M, Kido H, Uemura D. Blarina toxin, a mammalian lethal venom from the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda: Isolation and characterization. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:7542-7. [PMID: 15136743 PMCID: PMC419642 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0402517101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Venomous mammals are rare, and their venoms have not been characterized. We have purified and characterized the blarina toxin (BLTX), a lethal mammalian venom with a tissue kallikrein-like activity from the submaxillary and sublingual glands of the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda. Mice administered BLTX i.p. developed irregular respiration, paralysis, and convulsions before dying. Based on the amino acid sequence of purified protein, we cloned the BLTX cDNA. It consists of a prosequence and an active form of 253 aa with a typical catalytic triad of serine proteases, with a high identity with tissue kallikreins. BLTX is an N-linked microheterogeneous glycoprotein with a unique insertion of 10 residues, L(106)TFFYKTFLG(115). BLTX converted kininogens to kinins, which may be one of the toxic pathogens, and had dilatory effects on the blood vessel walls. The acute toxicity and proteolytic activity of BLTX were strongly inhibited by aprotinin, a kallikrein inhibitor, suggesting that its toxicity is due to a kallikrein-like activity of the venom.
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- Masaki Kita
- Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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Ohdachi SD, Seo Y. Small mammals and a frog found in the stomach of a Sakhalin Taimen Hucho perryi (Brevoort) in Hokkaido. Mammal Study 2004. [DOI: 10.3106/mammalstudy.29.85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Ohdachi SD, Abe H, Han SH. Phylogenetical positions of Sorex sp. (Insectivora, Mammalia) from Cheju Island and S. caecutiens from the Korean Peninsula, inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences. Zoolog Sci 2003; 20:91-5. [PMID: 12560606 DOI: 10.2108/zsj.20.91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Phylogenetical positions of Sorex specimens unassigned to species from Cheju Island, Korea, and S. caecutiens from southern Korean Peninsula were investigated based on full nucleotide sequences (1,140 bp) of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene, comparing specimens of the S. caecutiens/shinto group from locations throughout its range. In the phylogenetic tree obtained, S. caecutiens were separated into two main groups: Hokkaido and Continent-Sakhalin-Cheju clusters. Shrews from Cheju and Korean Peninsula were included in the latter cluster. Thus, we suggest that the shrew on Cheju Island should be ranked as S. caecutiens, although taxonomic description of the shrew has to be conducted elsewhere. The Cheju shrews formed a single sub-cluster while the peninsular shrews were not included in a single sub-cluster. The clustering of individuals in Continent-Sakhalin-Cheju cluster did not always reflect the geographical proximity of their capture locations. We interpret these findings as indicating ancestral isolation of a Hokkaido population and recent rapid range expansion of the modern population in Eurasian Continent-Sakhalin-Cheju.
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- Satoshi D Ohdachi
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporro, Japan.
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Han SH, Iwasa MA, Ohdachi SD, Oh HS, Suzuki H, Tsuchiya K, Abe H. Molecular phylogeny ofCrocidura shrews in northeastern Asia: A special reference to specimens on Cheju Island, South Korea. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03192463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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