Microcephaly

interesting questions related to a hot topic will eventually be revealed by somebody. Therefore, I try to study what other people do not. One thing I try to keep in mind is whether my questions are of general interest. My major interest lies in the underlying mechanism of seasonality. Because research on this topic requires a long time, few people want to work on this topic. I used quail as a model because of their dramatic responses to photoperiodic changes. Currently, I am also interested in the mechanisms of innate vocalization. The chicken provides an excellent opportunity to address this question. During our molecular and genetic analysis of rooster crowing, we noticed that roosters crow about two hours before dawn. When I searched the existing literature, I found that nobody had investigated whether crowing is triggered by the internal circadian clock or external stimuli such as sunlight. This is one example but there are a lot of interesting questions that remain to be answered.