Studies onBiological Processes Coastal Wet Lands

在这三年中，共邀请了8名马来西亚科学家，他们主修热带藻类学和动物学，对九州有明海峡沿海湿地的生物过程进行了研究。在此期间，我们听取了马来西亚科学家的许多建议，并对他们进行了我们领先的一些领域的研究技术培训。在马来西亚，我们进行了沿海湿地和滩涂鱼类生理生态学研究，以及沿海鱿鱼和乌贼的系统学和生长研究。在马来西亚进行的一次调查中获得了一项与泥滩鱼类呼吸有关的新发现，该发现发表在英文《自然》杂志上，引起了全世界的关注。在今年3月对部分研究结果进行确认并与日本弹涂鱼的产卵行为进行比较后，一些新的研究结果将在一些科学期刊上发表。此外，本项目还获得了一些新的发现：关于热带鱼肌肉蛋白质的性质。

Inviting 8 Malaysian scientists in total for these three years, who were majoring tropical phycology and zoology, studies on biological processes of coastal wetlands in Ariake Sound, Kyushu were carried out. During the term, many suggestion have been provided from Malaysian scientists, and we gave them training in some study techniques in some field where we are, ahead from them.In Malaysia, we conducted research on the fish physiology and ecology in coastal wetlands and tidal flats and systematics and growth of coastal squids and cuttlefishes. A new finding related to the breathing of fish in mudflats obtained during an examination in Malaysia was published on an English journal "Nature" l attracted world-wide attentions. Some new other findings in studies on the spawning behaviors of mudskippers are supposed to be published on some scientific journals after confiriming some parts of the findings in this March and comparing them with that of a Japanese mudskipper. Moreover, some newer findings :pertaining to the nature of muscle protein in tropical fish have been obtained in this project.