Ichiro Oohara, a consultant of GIOSTAR, currently works at the Aquatic
Genomics Research Center, National Research Institute of Fisheries
Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Japan. Oohara does research in
Genetics. His most recent publication is ‘Molecular and Morphological
Discrimination Between an Invasive Ascidian, Ascidiella aspersa, and Its
Congener A. scabra (Urochordata: Ascidiacea).