Masakazu Hoshino

This study identifies PKN as a female-specific protein in brown algae that mediates species-specific fertilization by enabling male-female recognition.

This study uses transcriptomic data from brown algae to show that regulatory evolution drives multicellular innovation despite conserved genome architecture.

This paper develops a high-efficiency, transgene-free CRISPR-Cas12 genome editing method for brown algae, applicable across multiple species and enabling functional genomics studies.

The paper analyzes brown algal genomes to trace the origin and evolution of U/V sex chromosomes, revealing gene gain-driven evolution and the demise of these systems through hermaphroditism and gene hierarchy shifts.

DESS (DMSO/EDTA/saturated NaCl) kept DNA at room temperature in animals, seagrasses and a brown alga, even after evaporating from bird muscle, but dissolves gastropod shells and holothurian ossicles.

The paper investigates the molecular mechanisms of asexual reproduction emergence in brown algae, finding convergent gene expression changes and a key autosomal locus associated with the loss of sex.