Laboratory of Animal Ecology

Understanding ecology and evolution of animal populations and species

Faculty

  • NameE-mail Address
  • Position
  • Degree
  • ARAKI Hitoshi
  • Professor
  • Ph.D. (Science)

arakih[at]agr.hokudai.ac.jp

Researchers’ directory
  • SAKATA Masayuki
  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. (Science)

sakata[at]agr.hokudai.ac.jp

Website

https://www.agr.hokudai.ac.jp/en/r/lab/animal-ecology

Selected Publications

  1. Mizumoto, Kishida, Takai, Matsuura and Araki (2022) Utilizing environmental DNA for wide-range distributions of reproductive area of an invasive terrestrial toad in Ishikari river basin in Japan. Biological Invasions 24:1199-1211.
  2. Yatsuyanagi, Ishida, Sakata, Kanbe, Mizumoto, Kobayashi, Kamada, Namba, Nii, Minamoto and Araki. Environmental DNA monitoring for short‐term reproductive migration of endemic anadromous species, Shishamo smelt (Spirinchus lanceolatus). Environmental DNA 2:130-139. (2020)
  3. Mizumoto, Mitsuzuka and Araki (2020) An environmental DNA survey on distribution of an endangered salmonid species, Parahucho perryi, in Hokkaido, Japan. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:569425.
  4. Miya, Sato, Fukunaga, Sado, Poulsen, Sato, Minamoto, Yamamoto, Yamanaka, Araki, Kondoh and Iwasaki (2015) MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150088.
  5. Araki, Cooper and Blouin. (2007) Genetic effects of captive breeding cause a rapid, cumulative fitness decline in the wild. Science 318:100-103.

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