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Figure GD-1.
Schematic diagram explaining the regeneration process after the anterior
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Acknowledgments
I would like to express the deepest appreciation to Prof. Toru Miura of
Misaki Marine Biological Station (MMBS), The University of Tokyo, for his strong
support in this thesis. I also thank Dr. Mariko Kondo for her guidance and help in
my sea cucumber study. Without their encouragement and suggestions, this
thesis would not have materialized.
I am also grateful to Dr. Yoshinobu Hayashi of the Keio University for his
arranging the RNAseq data that became an important key of molecular biological
analysis; Dr. Chie Umatani of The University of Tokyo for her teaching me a
typical method of in situ hybridization; Dr. Manabu Yoshida of MMBS for his
critical comments and suggestions; Dr. Daisuke Kurokawa of MMBS for his helpful
advice about molecular biological experiments; Dr. Masanori Okanishi of MMBS
for his support and discussion about systematics.
Mr. Yoshinori Harumoto of Aquamarine Fukushima (Fukushima Ocean
Science Museum), Mr. Kanade Abe of Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, and
the technical staffs of MMBS (Mr. Mamoru Sekifuji, Ms. Michiyo Kawabata and Ms.
Miho Kyokuwa) provided me a lot of sea cucumbers, and I am also particularly
grateful to Mr. Kohtsuka Hisanori of MMBS for his help in collecting sea cucumbers
and a lot of encouragement.
I received warm encouragement from Dr. Akihito Omori of Niigata
University, Ms. Toko Tsurugaya of Urawa University and Ms. Akiko Nagai of
Kamakura Gakuen Junior and Senior High School, and I have greatly benefited
from Dr. Kohei Oguchi of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST) for his respectable attitude as a member of Miura Laboratory
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and assist in molecular biological experiments. I sincerely would like to thank all
the member of MMBS for their helpful support.
I also express my gratitude to Takafumi Ikeda for his meaningful
discussion and kind encouragement.
Finally, I deeply thank my mother and sisters, Kaoru, Chika, Maki and
Norika for their financial support and everything they have done for me.
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