Rev. 25 Jan 2019
Vita: TOMONARI KAJI Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 Telephone: +1 (250) 728-3301 x218 Fax: +1 (250) 728-3452 Email: flickloop@gmail.com Website: https://sites.google.com/site/tomonarikaji/
Degrees Ph.D. 2011 Institute of Geosciences, Shizuoka University (supervisor, Dr. Akira Tsukagoshi) M.Sc. 2008 Institute of Geosciences, Shizuoka University (supervisor, Dr. Akira Tsukagoshi) B.Sc. 2006 Institute of Geosciences, Shizuoka University (supervisor, Dr. Akira Tsukagoshi) Academic Positions 2016-pres. Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Alberta (supervisor, Dr. A. Richard Palmer, FRSC) 2014-16 JSPS PDF for Research Abroad. University of Alberta (supervisor, Dr. A. Richard Palmer, FRSC) 2011-14 JSPS Research Fellow (PD). Hokkaido University (supervisor, Dr. Toru Miura) 2008-11 JSPS Research Fellow (DC1). Shizuoka University (supervisor, Dr. Akira Tsukagoshi)
Grants and Fellowships 2017-18 Planned collaborative project: No.235. National Institute for Physiological Sciences 350,000 JPY 2016-17 Planned collaborative project: No.247. National Institute for Physiological Sciences 322,180 JPY 2015-16 DSLM Collaborative Research. National Institute for Basic Biology (Representative investigator: Dr. Yuzo Ota) 70,000 JPY 2015-16 Planned collaborative project: No.258. National Institute for Physiological Sciences 322,180 JPY 2014-16 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science PDF for Research Abroad 10,512,000 JPY 2014-15 Planned Collaborative Project, National Institute of Physiological Science 172,180 JPY 2011-14 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (PD) 15,432,000 JPY 2010-11 JAMBIO Co-op. Research No. 22-29, Japanese Assoc. for Marine Biology 40,000 JPY 2008-11 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (DC1) 9,000,000 JPY
Honors and Awards Images of Distinction, Nikon’s Small World 2016 Photomicrography Competition. October 2016. PDF Travel Grant, Canadian Society of Zoologists. May 2016. 300 CAD. Presidents' Award, Best oral presentation by a PDF. Canadian Society of Zoologists. May 2016. 500 CAD. Zoological Science Award, for the best paper published in the journal of Zoological Science (reference list number 8), Zoological Society of Japan. September 2011. President’s Award, for outstanding scientific achievement including papers, presentations, and papers, Shizuoka University, March 2011. Best Poster Prize, European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Paris, July 2010. Best Oral Presentation Award, Japanese Association of Ostracodologists. Shiga, September 2008. Best Poster Award, Paleontological Society of Japan. Tochigi, February 2007 (with A. Tsukagoshi).
Research Areas Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Morphology and Functional Morphology of Arthropods
Technical and Methodological Skills Field sampling (meiobenthos, interstitial, benthos, coastal plankton, fish parasites, yabby pumping, snorkeling, dredging, deep sea plankton) and field experiments. Advanced microscopy: Light microscopy, Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, Two-photon excitation microscopy, Lightsheet Microscopy, Immunostaining, Micro-CT, Serial Block-Face SEM, 3D image analysis, 3D printing.
Publications: Peer-Reviewed 1) Koki Murano, Kota Ogawa, Tomonari Kaji, Toru Miura (2018). Pheromone Gland Development and Monoterpenoid Synthesis Specific to Oviparous Females in the Pea Aphid. Zoological Letters. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-018-0092-0 2) Tomonari Kaji, Arthur Anker, Christian S. Wirkner, A. Richard Palmer (2017). Parallel saltational evolution of ultrafast movement in snapping shrimp claws. Current Biology. 28: 106–113. 3) Angelica Lillico-Ouachour, Brian Metscher, Tomonari Kaji, Ehab Abouheif (2017). Internal head morphology of minor workers and soldiers in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole. Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0209 4) Tomonari Kaji, A. Richard Palmer (2017). How reversible is development? Contrast between developmentally plastic segment gain and loss in barnacle feeding legs. Evolution. 71-3: 756–765. (Cover Picture) 5) Lauren E. Hughes and Tomonari Kaji (2016). Description of a new species of Quadrivisio Stebbing, 1907, from Songkhla Lake, Thailand (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda: Maeridae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 351–359. 6) Tomonari Kaji, Keiichi Kakui, Naoyuki Miyazaki, Kazuyoshi Murata, A. Richard Palmer (2016). Mesoscale morphology at nanoscale resolution: Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy reveals fine 3D detail of a novel silk spinneret system in a tube-building tanaid crustacean. Frontiers in Zoology 13:14 DOI: 10.1186/s12983-016-0146-0. 7) Tomonari Kaji, Jonas Keiler, Thomas Bourguignon, Toru Miura (2016). Functional transformation series and the evolutionary origin of novel forms: Evidence from a remarkable termite defensive organ. Evolution & Development 18: 78-88. (Cover Picture) 8) Tomonari Kaji, Martin Fritsch, Martin Schwentner, Jørgen Olesen, Stefan Richter (2014). Male claspers in clam shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: A case study on homology versus analogy. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 322: 269-280. 9) Martin Fritsch, Tomonari Kaji, Jørgen Olesen, Stefan Richter (2013). The development of the nervous system in Laevicaudata (Crustacea, Branchiopoda): Insights into the evolution and homologies of branchiopod limbs and 'frontal organs'. Zoomorphology 132:163-181. 10) Tomonari Kaji, B. A. Venmathi Maran, Yuusuke Kondoh, Susumu Ohtsuka, Geoff A. Boxshall, Akira Tsukagoshi (2012). The lunule of caligid copepods: An evolutionarily novel structure. Evolution & Development 14: 465-475. (Cover Picture) 11) Tomonari Kaji (2012). Developmental process of musculoskeletal integration in ostracod antenna. Arthropod Structure & Development 41: 177-185. 12) Tomonari Kaji, Ole S. Møller and Akira Tsukagoshi (2011). A bridge between original and novel states: Ontogeny and function of “suction discs” in the Branchiura (Crustacea). Evolution & Development 13: 119-126. (Cover Picture) 13) Tomonari Kaji (2010). Ontogeny and function of the fifth limb in cypridocopain ostracods. Zoological Science 27: 673-677. (Cover Picture) 14) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi (2010). Homology and evolution of the antenna in podocopid ostracods from the perspective of aesthetascs. Zoological Science 27: 356-361. 15) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi (2010). Heterochrony and modularity in the degeneration of maxillopodan nauplius eyes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99: 521-529. 16) Tomonari Kaji (2010). Degeneration of eyes in interstitial crustaceans. TAXA, Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 28: 23-27. (In Japanese) 17) Gengo Tanaka, Tomonari Kaji and Haruyoshi Maeda (2009). Redescription of Bradleya japonica Benson, 1972 (Ostracoda) from the Sea of Japan and the significance of its shell shape from an optical point of view. Crustaceana 82: 1109-1118. 18) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi (2008). Origin of the novel chemoreceptor Aesthetasc "Y" in Ostracoda: Morphogenetical thresholds and evolutionary innovation. Evolution & Development 10: 228-240.
Publications: Invited Philosophical Papers 19) Tomonari Kaji (2013). Paradoxical nature of morphological contour. Revue de la Pensée d' Aujourd'hui. vol.41-1 (In Japanese) 20) Tomonari Kaji (2012). Taxon is in the individual. Revue de la Pensée d' Aujourd'hui. vol.40-11 (In Japanese) 21) Tomonari Kaji (2012). Morphological novelty as the dialectic becoming of contextual motion. Revue de la Pensée d' Aujourd'hui. vol.40-10 (In Japanese)
Publications: General Remarks
22) Susumu Ohtsuka, Tomonari Kaji, Jun Nishikawa, Shuhei Nishida, Manabu Asakawa, Satoshi Tasumi (2015). Crucial role of the morphology and the taxonomy for fisheries science in the light of biomimetics. Genetics, Biological Science 69: 398-404. (In Japanese) Conference Organization 1) Stefan Richter, Tomonari Kaji. Form and Function in Crustacean Morphology. 9th International Crustacean Congress, Washington, May 2018. 2) Reiko Tajiri and Tomonari Kaji. 5th Meeting, Rising Generation of Evo-Devo Biologists, Understanding Evolution Through ‘Epigenetic’ Perspectives, Okazaki, June 2012.
Invited Presentations 1) Tomonari kaji. Evolutionary functional morphology, and associated state-of-the-art microscopy techniques. McGill University Seminar Series, September 18, 2018. 2) Tomonari Kaji. How do novel forms and functions arise evolutionarily? Striking examples from arthropods. Summer Seminar at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, July 14, 2016. 3) Tomonari Kaji. Adaptive modification of animal morphology via developmental plasticity. Ecological Society of Japan, Shizuoka, March 2013 (Symposium). (In Japanese) 4) Tomonari Kaji. The morphology lies in the process. Colloquium for Foundation of Biology, Nagoya, September 2012. (In Japanese) 5) Tomonari Kaji. Functional explanation in Evo-Devo. Annual Meeting, Zoological Society of Japan, Tokyo, September 2010 (Symposium). (In Japanese) 6) Tomonari Kaji. On the origin of the novel organ “suction disc” in Branchiura. Symposium on Heterochrony. Tokyo, November 2009. (In Japanese) 7) Tomonari Kaji, Akira Tsukagoshi. Degeneration of eyes in interstitial crustaceans. Annual Meeting, Zoological Society of Japan, Shizuoka, September 2009 (Symposium). (In Japanese) 8) Tomonari Kaji. Origin of the novel organ “suction disc” in Branchiura. Annual Meeting, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, Sapporo, September 2009 (Symposium). (In Japanese)
Conference Presentations 1) Tomonari Kaji. Why a Functional Approach to Comparative Morphology Matters: Examples from Snapping Claws of Shrimps and Amphipods. 9th International Crustacean Congress. Washington, May 2018. 2) Taiki Fuji, Susumu Ohtsuka, Yusuke Kondo, Tomonori Kaji, Satoshi Tasumi. Functional morphology of the cephalothoracic sucker of Caligus. 13th International Conference on Copepoda. Los Angeles, July 2017. 3) Yuzo Ota, Kota Ogawa, Tomonari Kaji. Morphological analogy of the weapons between aquatic crustaceans and land insects -comparative anatomy of gnathiid isopods and lucanid beetles-. International Congress of Zoology. Okinawa, November 2016. 4) Tomonari Kaji, Arthur Anker, Christian Wirkner, A. Richard Palmer. Evolutionary origin of “snapping“ shrimps: Crossing the gap between pinching and snapping claws. European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Uppsala, July 2016 5) Tomonari Kaji, Arthur Anker, Christian Wirkner, A. Richard Palmer. Evolutionary origin of “snapping“ shrimps: Crossing the gap between pinching and snapping claws. Annual Meeting, Canadian Society of Zoologists. Ontario, May 2016. 6) Tomonari Kaji, A. Richard Palmer. Direct evidence of developmentally plastic addition and fusion of barnacle leg segments. Annual Meeting, Canadian Society of Zoologists. Calgary, May 2015. 7) Tomonari Kaji, Martin Fritsch, Martin Schwentner, Jørgen Olesen, Stefan Richter. Male claspers in clam shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: A case study of homology versus analogy. 8th International Crustacean Congress, Frankfurt, August 2014. 8) Tomonari Kaji, Thomas Bourguignon, Jonas Keiler, Toru Miura. Beyond the threshold of functional configuration: On the origin of novel defensive organ “nasus” in Nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termitidae). 3rd International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Berlin, August 2014. 9) Tomonari Kaji, Thomas Bourguignon, Jonas Keiler, Toru Miura. Beyond the threshold of functional configuration: On the origin of novel defensive organ “nasus” in Nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termitidae). Genomes to/aux Biomes 2014, Montreal, May 2014. 10) Koki Murano, Kota Ogawa, Tomonari Kaji, Dai Watanabe and Toru Miura. The development of ovipara-specific pheromone glands and the molecular basis for sex pheromone synthesis in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum; Homoptera: Aphididae). Japanese Society of Applied Entomology & Zoology, March 2014. (In Japanese) 11) Tomonari Kaji, A. Richard Palmer. Wave-velocity dependent plasticity in barnacle legs. Carcinological Society of Japan, November 2013. (In Japanese) 12) Tomonari Kaji, Martin Fritsch, Martin Schwentner and Stefan Richter. Male claspers in clam shrimp (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: A case study of homology versus analogy. Carcinological Society of Japan, October 2011. (In Japanese) 13) Tomonari Kaji, Martin Fritsch, Martin Schwentner and Stefan Richter. Male claspers in clam shrimp (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: A case study of homology versus analogy. Zoological Society of Japan, September 2011. (In Japanese) 14) Tomonari Kaji, B. A. Venmathi Maran, Y. Kondoh, S. Ohtsuka, and A. Tsukagoshi. Structure, development and evolution of the “lunule” in caligid copepods. 11th International Conference on Copepoda, Mexico, July 2011. 15) Tomonari Kaji. Ontogeny and function of "suction discs" in the Branchiura (Crustacea). 2nd International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Boston, June 2011. 16) Tomonari Kaji. A bridge between original and novel states: Ontogeny and function of “suction discs” in the Branchiura (Crustacea). 20th CDB Meeting, Kobe, February 2011. 17) Tomonari Kaji. Bridge the gap between ancestral and novel states: Ontogeny and function of “suction disc” in Branchiura (Crustacea). European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Paris, July 2010. 18) Tomonari Kaji. Origin of the novel organ “suction disc” in Branchiura (Crustacea). International Crustacean Congress, Qingdao, June 2010. 19) Tomonari Kaji. Plausibility of a novel structure: Origin of “suction disc” in Branchiura (Crustacea). Annual Meeting, Canadian Society of Zoologists 2010. Vancouver, May 2010. 20) Tomonari Kaji. Evolutionary conserved musculoskeletal integration in ostracods implies evolvability of crustacean appendages. 5th Meeting of Philosophy of Biology Japan. Tokyo, February 2010. 21) Tomonari Kaji. Causal factor for morphological identification of crustacean appendages. 159th Regular Meeting, Paleontological Society of Japan, Tochigi, February 2010. (In Japanese) 22) Tomonari Kaji. Evolutionarily conserved musculoskeletal integration in ostracods implies evolvability of crustacean appendages. Crustacean Society Summer Meeting, Tokyo, September 2009. 23) Tomonari Kaji. Origin of novelty and preserved functional correlation in the suction disc of Branchiura (Crustacea). 80th Annual Meeting, Zoological Society of Japan, Shizuoka, September 2009. (In Japanese) 24) Tomonari Kaji. Causal factor for the determination of the identity in crustacean appendages. 11th Annual Meeting, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, Sapporo, September 2009. (In Japanese) 25) Yu Maekawa, Akira Tsukagoshi, Tomonari Kaji. Conservativeness and variability of the carapace adductor muscle and the adductor muscle scar in Ostracoda. 45th Annual Meeting, Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Nagoya, June 2009. (In Japanese) 26) Tomonari Kaji. Functional change of appendages in ostracode ontogeny. Annual Meeting, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Boston, January 2009. 27) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. Does evolutionary change of adhesive properties among cells induce novel forms? Origin of the novel chemoreceptor in Ostracoda (Crustacea). 8th NIBB-EMBL Joint Meeting, Okazaki, November 2008. 28) Tomonari Kaji. Evolutionary conserved musculoskeletal integration in Ostracoda. Annual Meeting, Japanese Association of Ostracodologists. Shiga. September 2008. (In Japanese) 29) Tomonari Kaji. Alteration of functional correlations and incommensurability of body plans. 2nd Annual Meeting, Colloquium for Philosophy of Biology Japan. Kyoto. September 2008. (In Japanese) 30) Tomonari Kaji. Functional change of appendages in Ostracod ontogeny. 79th Annual Meeting, Zoological Society of Japan, Fukuoka, September 2008. 31) Tomonari Kaji. Evolutionary conserved musculoskeletal integration in Ostracoda. 10th Annual Meeting, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, Tokyo, August 2008. (In Japanese) 32) Tomonari Kaji. Functional change of ostracod appendages and analysis of muscular systems. Annual Meeting, Paleontological Society of Japan, Tokyo, July 2008. (In Japanese) 33) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. Morphological integration between joints and muscles in arthropod limb evolution. 157th Regular Meeting, Paleontological Society of Japan, Tochigi, February 2007. (In Japanese) 34) Tomonari Kaji. Giving account of the incommensurability of body plan from the perspective of morphology. 1st Annual Meeting, Colloquium for Philosophy of Biology Japan. Tokyo. October 2007. (In Japanese) 35) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. Degeneration of eyes in small Crustacea. 78th Annual Meeting, Zoological Society of Japan, Shimane, September 2007. (In Japanese) 36) Tomonari Kaji. Degeneration of eyes in interstitial Crustacea. Annual Meeting, Japanese Association of Ostracodologists. Shiga. August 2007. (In Japanese) 37) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. Degeneration of eyes in small Crustacea. 9th Annual Meeting, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, Kyoto, August 2007. (In Japanese) 38) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. Origin of the novel chemoreceptor aesthetasc “Y” in Ostracoda. Annual Meeting, Paleontological Society of Japan, Osaka, June 2007. (In Japanese) 39) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. Evolutionary innovation and developmental process: Origin of Aesthetasc “Y” in Ostracoda. 77th Annual Meeting, Zoological Society of Japan, Shimane, September 2006. (In Japanese) 40) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. Evolutionary innovation and the developmental process: Emergence of a novel chemoreceptor in Ostracoda. 8th Annual Meeting, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, Tokyo, August 2006. (In Japanese) 41) Tomonari Kaji and Akira Tsukagoshi. A common developmental constraint in the aesthetascs and the claws in Ostracoda. Annual Meeting, Paleontological Society of Japan, Tokyo, July 2005. (In Japanese)
Teaching Experience Undergraduate Research Projects Supervised (BMSC= Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada) Kristin Piché. Exploring the commensal relationship between copepods from the genus Clausidium and two shrimp species, Neotrypaea californiensis and Upogebia pugettensis. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 2 - June 10, 2016. Laurel Speed. Symbiotic Clausidium copepod host-preference for two sympatric populations of thalassinid shrimp found in Grappler Inlet, Bamfield, British Columbia. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 2 - June 10, 2016. Michelle Sung. A study on the preference of the copepod Clausidium sp. that resides on the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 2 - June 10, 2016. Vanessa Costa. Attachment Preference of Clausidium sp. to Neotrypaea californiensis and Upogebia pugettensis. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 2 - June 10, 2016. Jamie Phillips. The variation of the relative length of the third cirri in Chthamalus dalli with wave exposure and tidal height. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 4 - June 12, 2015. Kayla Foremski. The relationship of the third leg length in Chthamalus dalli in regards to wave exposure and tidal height. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 4 - June 12, 2015. Nicola Mohr. Variation in third leg length of barnacles through species evolution. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 4 - June 12, 2015. Val Watson. Phenotypic plasticity of the third leg of three intertidal barnacles with wave exposure and tidal height. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. BMSC. May 4 - June 12, 2015.
Guest lectures (BMSC= Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada) Functional Ecology, BMSC, JUNE 10, 2016 Marine Invertebrate Zoology, BMSC, May 30, 2016. Animal Structure & Function, BMSC, November 25, 2014.
Reviews for Scientific Journals Evolution & Development (x1) Zoological Science (x2) Journa of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (x1) Journal of Morphology (x1) PLOS ONE (x1) Membership in Professional Organizations Since 2016 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Since 2016 The Crustacean Society Since 2010 Canadian Society of Zoologists Since 2006 Paleontological Society of Japan Since 2006 Zoological Society of Japan Since 2005 Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
Since 2003 Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology |