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Named after Japanese folklore, two cephalopod species have been discovered in the coastal waters of the Okinawa Islands.

Scientists have compared the chromosomes of three major animal groups to reveal that they have been surprisingly stable across a time span of at least 550 million years.

A genetic analysis of fruit in the mandarin family has unraveled a complex journey from the mountainous region of southern China to the markets of Okinawa.

Researchers took a close look at bobtail and bottletail squids to establish their evolutionary relationships and the timing of the divergence of different species.

An evolutionary study finds that pteropods, or “wing-footed” sea snails and slugs, have faced acidified oceans in the past – and survived.

By looking at the DNA of living animals, researchers have revealed early events in vertebrate evolution, including how jawed vertebrates arose from the mating of two different species of primitive fish half a billion years ago.

Scientists find and classify species of bobtail squid in Okinawa.

The phylogenetic position of chaetognaths, or arrow worms, stumped scientists for centuries; now, researchers have revealed important evolutionary trends by pinpointing their proper place.

OIST researcher helps unravel the origins of vertebrate gene regulation in a large collaborative study.

The African clawed frog X. laevis genome contains two full sets of chromosomes from two extinct ancestors

OIST and its collaborators have analyzed the genomes of two acorn worm species and found that approximately two-thirds of human genes have counterparts in the ancestors of these marine animals.

OIST researchers and collaborators have sequenced and analyzed an octopus genome, making it the first cephalopod to be decoded.