Jul 19 2021

Associate Professor Yuta SHIINO of the Faculty of Science received the Best Paper Award from the Palaeontological Society of Japan.

This Best Paper Award was given to the paper published in Paleontological Research from Vol. 23, No. 1 (2019) to Vol. 24, No. 4 (2020) that was the most original and cutting-edge research paper. In this paper, they analyzed 3D morphology of glass-shelled zooplankton radiolarians and further explained the floating principle and survival strategy from the morphological function and its growth strategy. The research novelty, that addressed the functionality and its evolutionary aspects of the radiolarians using the advanced technology of microfocus X-ray CT, was evaluated as the Best Paper Award.

Comment from Associate Professor SHIINO

Personally, perhaps including all the co-authors, I always think that the radiolarian shells are attractively shaped. The award-winning paper is my favorite research that has integrated the functional beauty into the morphological beauty.

Award-winning paper

"A morphological analysis of the flat-shaped spumellarian radiolarian Dictyocoryne: morpho-functional insights into planktonic mode of life"
https://doi.org/10.2517/2019PR020
Published in: Paleontological Research, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 134-146, 2020.
Winners: Yuta Shiino (Niigata University), Toshiyuki Kurihara (Niigata University), Ryo Ichinohe (University of Tokyo), Naoko Kishimoto (Setsunan University), Takashi Yoshino (Toyo University) and Atsushi Matsuoka (Niigata University)

Related Link

Palaeontological Society of Japan website

Associate Professor Yuta SHIINO

One of the 3D models created in the research