Publications since 2020
Updated 10 Jun. 2025. This list contains publications in which at least one of our lab members at the time (underlined) was involved.
Preprint
Matsumura K, Noda T, Sharma MD, Okada K, Miyatake T, Hosken DJ (preprint) No association between metabolic rate and an exaggerated sexually selected trait. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.29.651352
2025
Nakao K, Sumi T, Matsumura K (in press) Antibiotic treatment eliminated Wolbachia in Tribolium confusum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and prolonged tonic immobility duration in later generations. Applied Entomology and Zoology.
Notomi Y, Dobata S, Kazawa T, Maezawa S, Namiki S, Kanzaki R, Haupt SS (accepted) Innate visual attraction before, during, and after escape from adverse substrates in carpenter ants. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250278
Miura Y, Takii H, Matsumura K, Miyatake T (in press) Experimental evolution of prey by predation pressure: death-feigning duration becomes longer in the presence of predators. Applied Entomology and Zoology.
Matsumura K (2025) Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Population Ecology.https://doi.org/10.1002/1438-390X.12218
Matsumura K (2025) Synchronising anti-predator behavior in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Behavioral Ecology. 36(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf013
Matsumura K, Sharma MD, Noda T, Miyatake T, Hosken DJ (2025) Behavior, behavioral syndromes and metabolism: the effects of artificial selection for death-feigning on metabolic rate. Journal of Insect Science. 25(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieaf007
Nakamura TP, Dobata S* (2025) Discrimination against non-nestmates functions to exclude socially parasitic conspecifics in an ant. Ethology. 131(3): e13533. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13533
Chung FY*, Hsu PW*, Hsu FC, Lin CC (2025) A new genus in a hyperdiverse ant lineage (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) revealed by integration of morphological and molecular evidence. Myrmecological News. 35:29-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_035:029
2024
Kawakami R, Matsumura K (2024) Influences of aging and mating history in males on paternity success in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. PLoS ONE. 19(2): e0316008. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316008
Saitoh T, Murakami S, de Guia APO, Ohnishi N, Kawai K (2024). Genetic signature of demographic history explains the current sympatric distribution of sibling species of Craseomys (Rodentia, Arvicolinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae106
Hsu PW, Chiu MC, Hsu FC, Yang CCS, Lin CC (2024). Are LED lights driving the massive nuptial flight swarm of the tramp ant Technomyrmex albipes?. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 172 (1), 75-83.
Matsumura K, Yamamoto Y, Yoshimura K, Miyatake T (2024). Effect of temperature on sexual size dimorphism during the developmental period in the broad-horned flour beetle. Journal of Thermal Biology, 124, 103962.
Kinoshita G, Sato T, Murakami S, Monakhov V, Kryukov AP, Frisman LV, Tsunamoto Y, Suyama Y, Murakami T, Suzuki H, Sato JJ (2024). Ice age land bridges to continental islands: Repeated migration of the forest-dwelling sable in northeastern Asia. Journal of Biogeography, 51 (19), 924–939.
2023
Saitoh T, Murakami S, de Guia APO, Ohnishi N, Kawai K (2023). Different MtDNA Haplotype Richness between Sibling Species of Myodes (Rodentia) on Hokkaido Mainland and Its Adjacent Islands, Japan. Mammal Study, 49 (2), 83–96.
Kyogoku D§, Dobata S, Takashima R, Sota T (2023). Female-limited responses in remating rate and mating duration in the experimental evolution of a beetle Callosobruchus chinensis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36 (1), 309–314.
Tseng SP, Darras H, Hsu PW, Yoshimura T, Lee CY, Wetterer JK, Keller L, Yang CCS (2023). Genetic analysis reveals the putative native range and widespread double‐clonal reproduction in the invasive longhorn crazy ant. Molecular Ecology, 32 (5), 1020–1033.
2022
Idogawa N§, Gotoh A, Dobata S (2022) Morphology of immatures of the thelytokous ant, Monomorium triviale Wheeler (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini) with descriptions of the extraordinary last-instar queen larvae. Zootaxa 5105 (2), 253–268.
Shimoji H§, Dobata S§ (2022) The build-up of dominance hierarchies in eusocial insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377: 20200437.
Murakami S, Tsuchiya K, Nakata K, Nishikata M, Kitada K, Suzuki H (2022) A Kit mutation associated with black-eyed white phenotype in the grey red-backed vole, Myodes rufocanus. Mammal Study 47 (4), 235–247. 第15回 日本哺乳類学会論文賞.
Saitoh T, Murakami S, de Guia APO, Ohnishi N, Kawai K (2023). Estimation of evolutionary rates for mitochondrial control region in sibling species of Myodes (rodentia) by calibrations based on island formation. Mammal Study, 48 (1), 31-45.
Yasudai R, Matsubara A, Hsu PW, Lee CC, Lin CC, Yang CCS (2022) Laboratory and field evaluations of two bait formulations against the invasive fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 115 (2), 624–630.
Hsu PW, Lee CC, Hsu FC, Tseng SP, Shih CH, Tay JW, Hsiao YC, Yang CCS, Lin CC (2022) Invasion of the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger, 1863, Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Taiwan. BioInvasions Records 11 (4), 864–875.
Hsu FC, Tseng SP, Hsu PW, Lu CW, Yang CCS, Lin CC (2022) Introduction of a non-native lineage is linked to the recent black cocoa ant, Dolichoderus thoracicus (Smith, 1860) outbreaks in Taiwan. Taiwania 67 (2), 272–279.
Chiu MC, Lin ZH, Hsu PW, Chen HW (2022) Molecular identification of the broodsacs from Leucochloridium passeri (Digenea: Leucochloridiidae) with a review of Leucochloridium species records in Taiwan. Parasitology International, 102644.
2021
Idogawa N§, Li CC, Yang CCS, Dobata S (2021) The complete mitochondrial genome of a parthenogenetic ant, Monomorium triviale (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 6 (10), 2793–2795.
Idogawa N§, Sasaki T, Tsuji K, Dobata S§ (2021) Comprehensive analysis of male-free reproduction in Monomorium triviale (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). PLoS ONE 16 (4): e0246710.
2020
Yamamichi M§, Kyogoku D, Iritani R, Kobayashi K, Takahashi Y, Tsurui-Sato K, Yamawo A, Dobata S, Tsuji K, Kondoh M§ (2020) Intraspecific adaptation load: A mechanism for species coexistence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35 (10), 897–907..
Hayakawa T§, Dobata S, Matsuno F (2020) Behavioral responses to colony-level properties affect disturbance resistance of red harvester ant colonies. Journal of Theoretical Biology 492, 110186.
Shimoji H*§, Mizumoto N*§, Oguchi K, Dobata S (2020) Caste-biased locomotor activities in isolated termites. Physiological Entomology 45 (1), 50–59. (*equal contribution)
学会発表（受賞）
2024年度
兼田典佳・工藤達実・土畑重人（2025）アミメアリにおける自発的集合行動の動態解析：分岐現象への力学系アプローチ, 第72回日本生態学会大会．2025年3月16日，優秀ポスター賞（進化・数理）
*Hayayo M Yamanouchi, *Yusuke Notomi, Ryoya Tanaka, Shumpei Hisamoto, Shigeto Dobata (2024) Best Student Paper Award, The 8th International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics 2024,
Yusuke Notomi, Shigeto Dobata (2024) Hybrid top-down behavioral tracking using UMATracker and DeepLabCut. 日本比較生理生化学会 第46回名古屋大会 P1-27 会長賞
2023年度
Yusuke Notomi, Tomoki Kazawa, So Maezawa, Ryohei Kanzaki, Shigehiro Namiki, Shigeto Dobata, Stephan Shuichi Haupt (2023) Decision-making on land and water in ants. 日本比較生理生化学会 第45回大阪大会 P1-39 大会委員長賞
朝鍋遥・村上翔大・土畑重人 (2023) 汽水域に進出したナミアメンボ（カメムシ目、アメンボ科）の分子系統地理．日本昆虫学会第83回大会（佐賀大学）2023年9月17日，最優秀ポスター賞．