Hiroo Imai, Nami Suzuki, Yoshiro Ishimaru, Takanobu Sakurai, Lijie Yin,　Wenshi Pan, Keiko Abe, Takumi Misaka and Hirohisa Hirai
Functional diversity of bitter taste receptor TAS2R16 in primates.
Biology Letters, Published online before print March 7, 2012, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1251.

Tohru Sugawara, Yasuhiro Go, Toshifumi Udono, Naruki Morimura, Masaki Tomonaga, Hirohisa Hirai and Hiroo Imai
Diversification of bitter taste receptor gene family in western chimpanzees.
Mol. Biol. Evol., 2011 Feb;28(2):921-31. Epub 2010 Oct 20.

Nami Suzuki, Tohru Sugawara, Atsushi Matsui, Yasuhiro Go, Hirohisa Hirai and Hiroo Imai
Identification of non-taster Japanese macaques for a specific bitter taste.
Primates, 2010 Oct;51(4):285-9. Epub 2010 Jul 28.

Atsushi Matsui, Yasuhiro Go and Yoshihito Niimura
Degeneration of Olfactory Receptor Gene Repertories in Primates: No Direct Link to Full Trichromatic Vision.
Mol Biol Evol., 2010 May;27(5):1192-200. Epub 2010 Jan 8.

The Molecular Biology Section aims to study the characteristics of primates from molecular and cellular levels.

Professor, Director (Concurrent)　

Hirohisa Hirai Home Page

Associate Professor

Hiroo Imai Home Page

Assistant Professor

Yasuhiro Go Home page

D2 / JSPS DC2

Nami Suzuki

D1 / JSPS DC1

Takashi Hayakawa

M2

Israt Jahan

D2 (Co-Researcher)

Kota Katayama

M2 (Co-Researcher)

Post-doctoral fellow

Takushi Kishida

Moved to Center for Human Evolution Modeling Research

Atsushi Matsui

Technical Assistant

Miho Hakukawa

Addministration

Yoshino Hakamata

Addministration

Kaori Yasutake

Research Assistant

Yuriko Hirai

Post-doctoral fellow (Moved to National Center for Child Health and Development)

Toru Sugawara

Student

Mikiko Tanaka

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