Finding genomic regions associated with gut length variation in medaka populations
The goal of this study is to find the genomic regions associated with gut length in wild medaka fish. The original RAD-seq method was used to generate nucleotide sequences for wild-derived laboratory stocks that are maintained at The University of Tokyo. Besides, the MBD-seq method was used to obtain methylated sequences in winter and summer of captured wild medaka collected from Kagawa, Japan. The former explores genomic regions associated with gut length by extracting SNPs, and the latter explores genomic regions that differ in the degree of methylation between winter and summer.