◆Research findings by a group led by Takako Takahashi, JSPS Research Fellow; Yoshito Takano, Project Researcher; and Professor Keizo Nagasaki of the Aquatic Virus Laboratory in the Department of Science and Engineering, Division of Natural Sciences, have been published in the U.S. scientific journal *Science of the Total Environment*, with the online version released on January 18, 2021.
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Research findings by a group led by Takako Takahashi, JSPS Research Fellow; Yoshito Takano, Project Researcher; and Professor Keizo Nagasaki at the Aquatic Virus Laboratory, Department of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Natural Sciences, were published in the U.S. scientific journal *Science of the Total Environment*, with the online version released on January 18, 2021.
This research achievement relates to an unprecedented case study of red tide, made possible by the integration of high-precision dating technology for seafloor sediments held by the Kochi University Center for Integrated Marine Core Research with virus analysis technology possessed by the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Kochi University, the Faculty of Medicine at Miyazaki University, the Fisheries Technology Research Institute of the National Research and Development Agency for Fisheries Research and Education, and Japan Software Management Co., Ltd.
This "method of tracing back to past environments to investigate viruses that existed there," and by extension, "the method of inferring biological events believed to be associated with those viruses," is expected to be applicable in a wide range of fields in the future.
<タイトル>Chronological distribution of dinoflagellate-infecting RNA virus in marine sediment core
<和 訳>海洋堆積物コアにおける渦鞭毛藻感染RNAウイルスの経時的分布