...bines behavioral, anatomical, electrophysiological, and molecular biological techniques. The main animal model used is songbirds, one of the few vertebrate groups that evolved the abili...
The Molecular Basis of Vertebrate Evolution. Naturally occurring species show spectacular differences in...the detailed molecular mechanisms that control evolutionary change in vertebrates....
...Our group is one of the pioneers in the field of comparative genomics. We proposed the compact genome of the fugu (Takifugu rubripes) as a model vertebrate genome in 1993 (Nature 366: 2...