Japenese Emperor Akihito is also a scientist just like his Father. Here is his latest - from the National Institute of Health (USA):
Speciation of two gobioid species, Pterogobius elapoides and Pterogobius zonoleucus revealed by multi-locus nuclear and mitochondrial DNA analyses.
Abstract
To understand how geographical differentiation of gobioid fish species led to speciation, two populations of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan for each of the two gobioid species, Pterogobius elapoides and Pterogobius zonoleucus, were studied in both morphological and molecular features. Analyzing mitochondrial genes, Akihito et al. (2008) suggested that P. zonoleucus does not form a monophyletic clade relative to P. elapoides, indicating that "Sea of Japan P. zonoleucus" and P. elapoides form a clade excluding "Pacific P. zonoleucus" as an outgroup.
Much more at the site - you get the drift. Beats playing a poor game of Golf every couple of days...
And yeah, the Emperor was listed as the first author. This means that he was the lead scientist on the project.
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