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Naofumi Yoshida
Section
Graduate School of Life Sciences
Job title
Specially Appointed Research Fellow
e-Rad No.
70985431

Research History 2

  • 2025/11 - Present
    Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences Department of Ecological Developmental Adaptability Life Sciences Post doctor

  • 2023/04 - 2025/11
    Kyoto University Center for Ecological Research Post doctor

Education 2

  • Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences Department of Ecological Developmental Adaptability Life Sciences

    2017/04 - 2023/01

  • Tohoku University Faculty of Science Department of Biology

    2013/04 - 2017/03

Professional Memberships 1

  • The Botanical Society of Japan

    2025/04 - Present

Research Interests 5

  • plant pathology

  • 環境応答

  • 植物生態学

  • 馴化

  • 種内変異

Research Areas 1

  • Life sciences / Ecology and environmental science /

Papers 2

  1. Does selection occur at the intermediate zone of two insufficiently isolated populations? A whole-genome analysis along an altitudinal gradient.

    Naofumi Yoshida, Shin-Ichi Morinaga, Takeshi Wakamiya, Yuu Ishii, Shosei Kubota, Kouki Hikosaka

    Journal of plant research 136 (2) 183-199 2023/03

    DOI: 10.1007/s10265-022-01429-1  

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    Adaptive divergence occurs even between insufficiently isolated populations when there is a great difference in environments between their habitats. Individuals present in an intermediate zone of the two divergent populations are expected to have an admixed genetic structure due to gene flow. A selective pressure that acts on the genetically admixed individuals may limit the gene flow and maintain the adaptive divergence. Here, we addressed a question whether selection occurs in the genetically admixed individuals between two divergent populations. Arabidopsis halleri is a perennial montane plant, which has clear phenotypic dimorphisms between highland and lowland habitats in Mt. Ibuki, central Japan. We obtained the whole-genome sequences of Arabidopsis halleri plants along an altitudinal gradient of 359-1,317 m with a high spatial resolution (mean altitudinal interval of 20 m). We found a zone where the highland and lowland genes were mixing (intermediate subpopulation). In the intermediate subpopulation, we identified 5 and 13 genome regions, which included 3 and 8 genes, that had a high frequency of alleles that are accumulated in highland and lowland subpopulations, respectively. In addition, we also found that the frequency of highland alleles of these selected genome regions was smaller in the lowland subpopulation compared with that of the non-selected regions. These results suggest that the selection in the intermediate subpopulation might limit the gene flow and contribute to the adaptive divergence between altitudes. We also identified 7 genome regions that had low heterozygote frequencies in the intermediate subpopulation. We conclude that different types of selection in addition to gene flow occur at the intermediate altitude and shape the genetic structure across altitudes.

  2. Plasticity of functional traits and optimality of biomass allocation in elevational ecotypes of Arabidopsis halleri grown at different soil nutrient availabilities

    Qing-Wei Wang, Maya Daumal, Soichiro Nagano, Naofumi Yoshida, Shin-Ichi Morinaga, Kouki Hikosaka

    Journal of Plant Research 132 (2) 237-249 2019/02/05

    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

    DOI: 10.1007/s10265-019-01088-9  

    ISSN: 0918-9440

    eISSN: 1618-0860