... Kuroda, 1943 (Rodentia, Muridae), from the islands of Amami Oshima and Okinawa, in the Ryukyu Islands (=the Nansei ... and a longer molar row than that of Amami Oshima. However, neither the posterior nor the central parts ... narrower zygomatic arches than the spiny rat of Amami Oshima. The Okinawan spiny rat has a wider first ... molar (wM1≥1.9 mm), whereas that of Amami Oshima is wM1≤1.8 mm. The Okinawan spiny ... the skull situated more posteriorly than that of Amami Oshima. These findings indicate conclusively that the spiny rat ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2001 - | Mammal Study
Hiroshige Tsuguti, Teruyuki Kato,
... October 2010, a heavy rainfall event occurred on Amami-Oshima Island, Japan, delivering a record 622 mm of ... showed that low-level humid air, carried to Amami-Oshima Island during the rainfall event by strong east- ... air-parcel transformation). Warm sea surface temperatures around Amami-Oshima Island, about 2°C higher than the annual mean, contributed to this air-parcel transformation. At Amami-Oshima Island, the collision of the humid flows with ...
Tópico(s): Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
2014 - The Meteorological Society of Japan | Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
Amami Oshima (Island of Amami) in Japan has five species and two supspecies of animal wildlife that are ... a small portion of the whole economy of Amami Oshima, so that financial support from the national and ... and logged areas in the central part of Amami Oshima, where all the wildlife taxa under consideration are to be observed at present. The governments have planned to manage these young forests with a 35–40 years' rotation-cycle for pulpwood, of which the commercial value is relatively low. Of the involved seven species and subspecies, the Great White's Thrush ( Turdus dauma amami ), Owston White-backed Woodpecker ( Drendrocopos leucotos owstoni ), and ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
1988 - Cambridge University Press | Environmental Conservation
Hugh L. Keegan, S. Toshioka, Takaji Matsui, Hiroshi Suzuki,
... represented in collections from snakes from Malaysia, Taiwan, Amami Oshima, and Korea examined at the 406th Medical Laboratory, ... mainland opposite Penang; Trimeresurus flavoviridis flavoviridis (Hallowell) from Amami Oshima; Dinodon semicarinatum (Cope) from Amami Oshima; and Natrix pryeri pryeri (Boulenger) from Amami Oshima. It was also taken from Vipera russelli (Shaw) ...
Tópico(s): Parasites and Host Interactions
1969 - Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology | Medical Entomology and Zoology
So Shinya, Yukinori Muraoka, Daigo Negishi, Nobuo Koizumi,
... spp. Canine and human leptospirosis sometimes occur on Amami Oshima Island, located in the Nansei Archipelago, southwestern Japan; ... isolated from wild animals and a dog in Amami Oshima Island. We obtained seven Leptospira strains by culturing ... genotype and serotype maintenance in wild mammals on Amami Oshima Island. MLST and MLVA indicated that black rats ...
Tópico(s): Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases
2021 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Minoru Ikeda, Makoto Nunokawa, Nobuhiko Taniguchi,
... is an amphidromous fish that is endemic to Amami-oshima Island in southernmost Japan. Its abundance, however, has ... populations in the eastern and western parts of Amami-oshima Island (Sumiyo Bay and Yakeuchi Bay areas, respectively), ... that the two populations of Ryukyu-ayu on Amami-oshima Island have been historically formed.
Tópico(s): Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
2003 - Springer Science+Business Media | Fisheries Science
A field survey of the damage of the Amami-Oshima-Kinkai earthquake (Mw 7.1) and its tsunami ... both tsunamis at ports on Kikai-jima and Amami-Oshima. Imamura-Hatori's magnitudes of the main shock ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
1997 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
Hiroki Shibata, Takahito Chijiwa, Shôsaku Hattori, Koki Terada, Motonori Ohno, Yasuyuki Fukumaki,
... samples of P. flavoviridis collected from different islands, Amami-Oshima and Okinawajima within the Group II, we expanded ... flavoviridis and P. tokarensis collected from 10 islands: Amami-Oshima (5 specimens), Kakeromajima (4) and Tokunoshima (4) from ... of P. flavoviridis between the Amami Clade including Amami-Oshima, Kakeromajima and Tokunoshima and the Okinawa Clade including Okinawajima, Iheyajima, Iejima, Tokashikijima and Kumejima. The Amami Clade also include all specimens from the Tokara ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2016 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
... M. hageni (Zavattari, 1913), ♂♀; A. substriolata (Chen, 1957), ♀ (Amami-ôshima Is., Okinawa-jima Is.); E. yoshitakei sp. nov., ♂♀ (Amami-ôshima Is.), E. suginoi sp. nov., ♂♀ (Okinawa-jima Is.), ... eastern edge of Eurasian Continent was close to Amami-ôshima Is.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2020 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Toshihiro Tokiwa, Hisashi Yoshimura, Sayoko Hiruma, Yukie Akahori, Ayami Suzuki, Keiko Ito, Masami Yamamoto, Kazunori Ike,
... species that is endemic to the forests of Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima, Japan. In July 2018, a deceased ... Mountain Trail on the south-central coast of Amami-Oshima Island. Histopathological observations revealed protozoan infections in the ...
Tópico(s): Mosquito-borne diseases and control
2019 - Elsevier BV | International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
Takahito Chijiwa, Kazuki Abe, Tomohisa Ogawa, Nikolai N. Nikandrov, Shôsaku Hattori, Naoko Oda‐Ueda, Motonori Ohno,
... flavoviridis snakes inhabit the southwestern islands of Japan: Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima and Okinawa. A phospholipase A2 (PLA2) of ... 8.5) was isolated from the venom of Amami-Oshima T. flavoviridis. Its amino acid sequence determined by ... nucleotide sequence of the cDNA previously cloned from Amami-Oshima T. flavoviridis venom gland, which was named PLA- ...
Tópico(s): Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
2005 - Elsevier BV | Toxicon
... genus Trimeresurus, Trimeresurus flavoviridis and Trimeresurus okinavensis, inhabit Amami Oshima Island in the Loo-Choo Islands. These are the common terrestrial venomous snakes on Amami Oshima Island. There is a ring structure on the ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
1979 - The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles | Journal of Herpetology
Akira Nagano, Kaoru Ichikawa, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Masanori Konda, Kiyoshi Murakami,
... offshore water originates from both the east of Amami‐Oshima Island and the interior region of the North ... The water mass transport from the east of Amami‐Oshima Island may become equivalent to that of the ... with the colder Ryukyu Current east of the Amami‐Oshima Island.
Tópico(s): Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
2009 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Hitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro A. Iwasa, Nobuo Ishii, Hiroko Nagaoka, Kimiyuki Tsuchiya,
... rDNA), using samples collected from Tokuno-shima and Amami-oshima in the Ryukyu Islands. The two populations show intrinsic karyological variation (Tokuno-shima, 2n=45; Amami-oshima, 2n=25). Sequences of the cyt b gene ... status of the populations of the two islands, Amami-oshima and Tokuno-shima, which regards them conspecific, should ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
1999 - | Mammal Study
Takahito Chijiwa, Masanobu Deshimaru, Ikuo NOBUHISA, Makoto Nakai, Tomohisa Ogawa, N. Oda, Kinichi Nakashima, Yasuyuki Fukumaki, Yasuyuki Shimohigashi, Shôsaku Hattori, Motonori OHNO,
... in composition from those of T. flavoviridis of Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima islands. The most striking feature was ... which are expressed abundantly in the venoms of Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima T. flavoviridis, are missing from the ... had been inactivated to form pseudogenes. Differently from Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima T. flavovirdis genomic DNAs, PCR amplification ...
Tópico(s): Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
2000 - Portland Press | Biochemical Journal
Takahito Chijiwa, Masanobu Deshimaru, Ikuo Nobuhisa, Makoto Nakai, Tomohisa Ogawa, N. Oda, Kin-ichi Nakashima, Yasuyuki Fukumaki, Yasuyuki Shimohigashi, Shôsaku Hattori, Motonori Ohno,
... in composition from those of T. flavoviridis of Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima islands. The most striking feature was ... which are expressed abundantly in the venoms of Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima T. flavoviridis, are missing from the ... had been inactivated to form pseudogenes. Differently from Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima T. flavovirdis genomic DNAs, PCR amplification ...
Tópico(s): Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
2000 - Portland Press | Biochemical Journal
Takeru Yanagi, Masaru Yamaguchi, Tamotsu Nozawa,
The Minami-osumi granite and the granites from Amami-oshima were analyzed for strontium and rubidium by the ... O．7065±0．0002 for the granites from Amami-oshima． An order of the difFerences『be七ween the whole ...
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
1971 - Kyushu University | Memoirs of the Faculty of Science Kyūsyū University Series D Geology
Tomohiko Suzuki, Yoshitada Kawasaki, Tomikazu Arita, Akio Nakamura,
The blood clam Barbatia lima subsp. from Amami-Oshima, Japan, expresses three types of haemoglobins in erythrocytes: a tetramer (alpha 2 beta 2), a homodimer (delta 2) and a polymer consisting of ... residues) and 2D (308 residues) of B. lima (Amami-Oshima). The alpha chain has an extremely long N- ... delta chain is expressed only in B. lima (Amami-Oshima), and appears to be a relic of molecular ...
Tópico(s): Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
1996 - Portland Press | Biochemical Journal
Sachio Ohta, Naoto Murao, Sadamu Yamagata,
... were determined from the ground-based measurements at Amami Oshima in April 2001 during the Asian Atmospheric Particle ... and at Fukue Island in March 2001. At Amami Oshima from April 10 to 16, an aerosol event ... aluminum, and zinc were higher than those at Amami Oshima, while the single scattering albedo was relatively low. ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
2013 - The Meteorological Society of Japan | Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
Masaru Sakai, Shin‐ichi Suda, Taichi Okeda, Izumi Washitani,
... of a nonnative fish) in 10 ponds on Amami-Oshima Island. In total, 26 species of six odonate ... for conservation and restoration of lentic habitats on Amami-Oshima Island.
Tópico(s): Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
2017 - Springer Science+Business Media | Ecological Research
Amami-Oshima is located at the central part of the Ryukyu Arc which extends from Kyushu to Taiwan. ... kilo-meters south-east off Kasari Peninsula of Amami-Oshima, rapid uplifting (1.5-2 mm/y) during ... vertical deformation in the late Quaternary period in Amami-Oshima with relation to that in Kikai-Jima, and ... mentioned seismic crustal movements.The geomorphic surfaces of Amami-Oshima are roughly classified as follows : low, middle and ... and scarcely observable in the other part of Amami-Oshima, except a minor wave-cut bench of 8 ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
1977 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
Ryoko FUJII, Ryoko Ueno, Tomoko Yamamoto,
... of Lingula anatina after settlement in Kasari Bay, Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima, Japan, by measuring the gonad index ... therefore, for convenience, we named the species in Amami-Oshima as Lingula anatina.
Tópico(s): Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
2019 - | Plankton and Benthos Research
Taro Nakamura, Asato Kuroiwa, Chizuko Nishida‐Umehara, Kazumi Matsubara, Fumio Yamada, Yoichi Matsuda,
... to three islands of the Nansei Shoto archipelago, Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima and Okinawa-jima, Japan. Tokudaia tokunoshimensis from Tokunoshima Island and Tokudaia osimensis from Amami-Oshima Island are closely related taxonomically, although their karyotypes ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2007 - Springer Science+Business Media | Chromosome Research
Katsuki Oki, Tomoko Hamabata, Toshimitsu Arata, Denise M. Parker, Connie Ka Yan Ng, George H. Balazs,
... green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from a beach on Amami-Oshima Island (Amami) in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, to identify the ...
Tópico(s): Bird parasitology and diseases
2019 - Allen Press | Chelonian Conservation and Biology
Mutsumi Nishida, Yasumasa Sawashi, Shinsho Nishijima, Mikio Azuma, Haruhiko Fujimoto,
... ryukyuensis was determined on the three major islands, Amami-oshima, Tokunoshima, and Okinawa Islands, in 1986. The fish ... in five streams in the southern part of Amami-oshima Island. Among these five streams, the majority of ...
Tópico(s): Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
1992 - Springer Science+Business Media | NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI
Akira Nagano, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Takahiro Miura, Kaoru Ichikawa, Masanori Konda, Y. Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Obama, Kana Murakami,
... resulting in larger northeastward volume transport southeast of Amami‐Oshima Island than southeast of Okinawa Island. The volume ... reaches more than 40% of that southeast of Amami‐Oshima Island. On the other hand, the current in ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2007 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Shigeaki Kojima, Satomi Kamimura, Taeko Kimura, Ikuo Hayashi, Akiko Iijima, Toshio Furota,
... flectosiphonata with the exception of a population from Amami-Oshima Island, which corresponded to the boundary between the ... were collected from the same tidal flat on Amami-Oshima Island. All the snails with the mitochondrial gene of B. multiformis could be divided into two genetically distinct groups but there was no geographical structure to the distribution of these two groups. Individual populations of B. flectosiphonata in the Amami, Okinawa, Miyako and Yaeyama insular groups each consisted ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2003 - Zoological Society of Japan | ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Terutake Hayashi, Masafumi Matsui, Taeko Utsunomiya, Satoshi Tanaka, Hidetoshi Ota,
... collected from three islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago: Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima, and Okinawajima. Levels of genetic variability within ... The sample from Okinawajima is different from the Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima samples with Nei's genetic distance ( ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1992 - Herpetologists' League | Herpetologica
... of Kasari-mura in the main-island of Amami-Oshima and at Omonawa shell-mound of Tokunoshima, were investigated, and it is noticed that almost all of the beast bones found belong to wild boars and that none belongs to the deer. A piece of dog's ulna was also found at Usuku shell-mound.Wild boars found at shell-mounds in Amami are smaller than those found among some remains ...
Tópico(s): Veterinary Oncology Research
1960 - Anthropological Society of Nippon | The Journal of Anthropological Society of Nippon
Misuzu Aoki, Yukari Nakagawa, Mayuko Kawamoto, Keiji Wãda,
... September, whereas ovigerous females from Southern group populations (Amami-oshima, Okinawa-jima, and Iriomote-jima) were observed from ... genetic boundary exists between the Tanega-shima and Amami-oshima populations, which is consistent with the interpopulation difference ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2012 - Zoological Society of Japan | ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE