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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excellent work on a fruit fly, done by Daiki Sato and Yuma Takahashi. #GWAS of higher-order phenotypes reveals positive effects of genetic diversity on group-level performance. @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neurogenomic and behavioral principles shape freezing dynamics and synergistic performance in Drosophila melanogaster - Nature Communications

Collective behavior plays an important role in predator evasion, but its neurogenetic basis is poorly understood. Here, Sato and Takahashi show that genetic diversity within groups of fruit flies enha...

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Vincent CASTRIC @vincentcastric.bsky.social · May 22

📢 Don't miss this special issue of ‪@plantcellphysiol.bsky.social‬ 🌱 containing a diverse array of exciting studies in Ecology and Evolution.
Shout-out to all contributing authors and my fellow co-editors @yassato.bsky.social, E. Sasaki and T. Tsuchimatsu !

Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · May 20

Special Issue: #Ecology & #Evolution out now!

16 Research & Review papers exploring the molecular-genetic strategies used by plants to survive & thrive in nature

🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/66/4

Organisers:
V.Castric @vincentcastric.bsky.social
Y.Sato @yassato.bsky.social
E.Sasaki
T.Tsuchimatsu

Volume 66 Issue 4 | Plant and Cell Physiology | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. Publishes original articles reporting significant findings in broad aspects of plant biology.

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · May 20

Special Issue: #Ecology & #Evolution out now!

16 Research & Review papers exploring the molecular-genetic strategies used by plants to survive & thrive in nature

🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/66/4

Organisers:
V.Castric @vincentcastric.bsky.social
Y.Sato @yassato.bsky.social
E.Sasaki
T.Tsuchimatsu

Volume 66 Issue 4 | Plant and Cell Physiology | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. Publishes original articles reporting significant findings in broad aspects of plant biology.

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 21

I’m honored to organize this special issue with Vincent Castric @vincentcastric.bsky.social, Takashi Tsuchimatsu, and Eriko Sasaki. We’ve expanded #ecology and #evolution to #plant #physiology and #genetics🌱🧬. I look forward to seeing how #PCP goes toward this perspective👀

Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · May 20

A fitting cover image for #WorldBeeDay🐝
c/o Ryo A. Suda

Special Issue: #Ecology & #Evolution

💐Special thanks to guest editors:
Vincent Castric @vincentcastric.bsky.social
Yasuhiro Sato @yassato.bsky.social
Takashi Tsuchimatsu
Eriko Sasaki

📖 Editorial: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience

PCP April Issue cover image showing Arabidopsis halleri plants in bloom and pollinated by a Bombylius major (Bombyliidae); photo by Ryo A. Suda.

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Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · May 20

Another week to apply. Please RT!

Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · May 14

Are you interested in predator-prey interactions and movement ecology?

I am looking for a PhD student to work on the project "A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator-prey interactions"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342402.

PhD student in Ecology (up to 4 years)

The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation project “A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator prey interacti...

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Laura MATHIEU @lauramathieu.bsky.social · May 20

Our article on agroecological genomics and participatory science to optimise crop mixtures is now available online.
Thanks again to Chiara and Roberto for involving me in the discussions and writing this paper. I am glad to have contributed.
To read the article:
www.cell.com/trends/plant...

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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · May 7

New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🌱🌾

We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 19

Awesome work including natural history, chemical ecology, plant-pollinator interactions, and many other aspects. Must-read!

奥山雄大ver.欲深 @yokubukayama.bsky.social · May 19

This paper, which was fortunately published in Science, is the fruits of more than 20 years of my scholarly pursuit in biology, and I believe that I have finally achieved one of the milestones, which I had envisioned in my mind, of my research. Below I would like to tell the story behind it.

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 19

As a guest editor, I’m especially interested in how to apply molecular and genetic tools to biotic interactions in nature. Thank Mie Honjo, Matt Barbour, Simon Groen @simoncgroen.bsky.social, & Samuel Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social for their contributions to this perspective.

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 19

Eco-Evo special issue is now out in Plant and Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social, with a flourish cover photo of Arabidopsis halleri. Please check it out!
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantEvolution #PlantEcology

Ecology and evolution: genetic and molecular dynamics of plants in nature

The field of ecology and evolution covers the origins, maintenance, and functions of biodiversity through the investigation of interactions between organis

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 19

Here is a paper about #GWAS of frequency-dependent selection (Sato et al. 2023 Evolution). I applied this method for Arabidopsis growth data. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Detecting frequency-dependent selection through the effects of genotype similarity on fitness components

Abstract. Frequency-dependent selection (FDS) is an evolutionary regime that can maintain or reduce polymorphisms. Despite the increasing availability of p

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 19

New preprint of mine. Application of Neighbor #GWAS to #Arabidopsis thaliana biomass data uncovered the genetic architecture of negative frequency-dependent selection and overyielding. Now under review. Stay tuned!

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · May 15

Negative frequency-dependent selection underlies overyielding through neighbor genotypic effects in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.654149v1

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · Apr 7

A triple threat...🍞

Nomura et al. used 3’ RNA ‘Lasy-Seq’ to clarify the #transcriptome architecture of 25 #wheat accessions to reveal homoeolog triads under cis- and trans-regulation, & a potential trans-factor via co-trans regulation network analysis 🧬

🆓🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience

short summary text of the paper by Nomura et al. accompanied by an icon image illustrating the molecular mechanisms and expressions associated with cis- and trans-regulation, and a photo of the first author, Yasuyuki Nomura, and his biography.

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 9

Amazing work on #plant - #insect interactions. Posted to keep a memo for own.

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 9

Flowers with bad breath | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Flowers with bad breath

How an old gene acquired a new function to exploit an insect’s sense of smell

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · May 9

Convergent acquisition of disulfide-forming enzymes in malodorous flowers | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Convergent acquisition of disulfide-forming enzymes in malodorous flowers

Identifying the metabolic and genetic changes that confer evolutionary novelty is essential for understanding the factors facilitating or constraining the occurrence of traits. We show that dimethyl d...

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Apr 24

The first application of Neighbor GWAS to crop data, led by two graduate students. We analyzed open data on barley diseases. #crop #GWAS #preprint

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Apr 24

Spatial heterogeneity of disease infection attributable to neighbor genotypic identity in barley cultivars https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.22.650038v1

Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Apr 23

Keep #GWAS method memo. This may be applicable to wild plants as well as crops. "A novel genome-wide association study method for detecting quantitative trait loci interacting with complex population structures in plant genetics" by Hamazaki et al. @genetics-gsa.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gene...

A novel genome-wide association study method for detecting quantitative trait loci interacting with complex population structures in plant genetics

Abstract. In plant genetics, most modern association analyses are performed on panels that bring together individuals from several populations, including a

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Apr 18

We’ve hosted Dr. Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia in Hokkaido University for his sabbatical visit. His seminar about GWAS2 was striking. I'm looking forward to its official publication from this list soon, jialab.ucr.edu/publications

Publications

2022

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Apr 15

Arabidopsis thaliana and Cardamine hirsuta in Sapporo!

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Apr 8

Special issue of "Development and regulation: Evo-Devo and extended perspectives" in Current Opinion in Insect Science🪰📚. Co-edited by Koshikawa Shigeyuki, a professor from our course. Editorial overview at doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Redirecting

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Apr 4

Butterbur tells us spring in Hokkaido!

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Apr 2

Snow is melting, and spring is coming to Sapporo. I just updated our lab website as it is shaping up a small team. yassato.github.io

Quantitative Ecological Genetics (QEcoGen Lab)

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Mar 21

"Ecologists with kids", one of the #ESJ72 workshops. My son and I really enjoyed this format. Their talks about species interaction were so exciting that I asked a research question while holding my son👍
Many thanks to the organizers!!

ishikawayuki.bsky.social @ishikawayuki.bsky.social · Mar 20

第72回日本生態学会大会で、子どもウェルカムな自由集会『W01 生態学者が子を抱えて（特に種間相互作用に関して）がっつり研究発表する！』を企画し、無事終えることができました！👏👏👏
👶🧒に会場に設置したキッズエリアで遊んでもらいつつ、子育て中の研究者４名（石川由希@名大、石崎智美@新潟大、石川麻乃@東大、松浦なる@北大）が発表をしました！（会場に紙飛行機が飛び交ったのはご愛嬌…😂）
終わってから何人も良かった、嬉しかったと声をかけて頂きました！いろいろ反省点はありますので、今後（来年度？）に生かせればと思います！ありがとうございました！
#ESJ72
#esj72

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Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social · Mar 21

Two of the speakers, Dan and Al, visited my lab at Hokkaido Univ after #ESJ72. Thank Genki and Naofumi for the arrangement!

Plant Species Biology @plantspeciesbio.bsky.social · Mar 19

#ESJ72 S08
冬の植物生態学
Before the arrival of spring: do plants simply endure the winter?

Organizer: Naofumi YOSHIDA & Genki YUMOTO

The symposium was successfully closed. On-demand video is now available for #ESJ72 attendees! Catch up at your convenience.
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Left to right: AI P. KOVALESKI, Ko NOGUCHI, Hiroshi KUDOH (President, the Society for the Study of Species Biology), Genki YUMOTO, Daniel E. RUNCIE, and Naofumi YOSHIDA

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