Research theme for competitive and other funds (17)：
2022 - 2026 Representation of " Colour " in insect brain - neural processing of wavelength information in the mushroom body -
2018 - 2023 Spectral opponency in photoreceptors : neuroethological analysis
2017 - 2020 Neural mechanism underlying sexual dimorphism of integration of vision and olfaction in the innate color preference of butterflies
2017 - 2019 アサギマダラにおける季節性ナビゲーションの神経行動学”生態学的アプローチ”
2014 - 2018 Anatomical and physiological analysis of early color processing in the insect lamina
2017 - 2018 ナミアゲハの色覚と送粉に関わる花色の関係
2014 - 2016 偏光による傾き知覚の神経基盤を探る
2012 - 2014 Neuroethological study of innate color preference modified plant scent
2009 - 2012 Mechanism and evolution of color vision in microbrain systems
2009 - 2011 Neuroethological study of polarization vision in Papilio butterflies
2006 - 2008 Wavelength information processing by inter-photoreceptor connection and color vision
2005 - 2006 アゲハ視小葉複合体出力系の細胞構成と色覚経路
2002 - 2005 Analysis of color vision mechanism in a microbrain
2004 - Is butterfly color vision pentachromatic?
2001 - 2002 アゲハの色覚と色受容細胞の分布様式の関係
2000 - 2002 アゲハの色嗜好性における雌雄差に関する神経行動学的研究
2000 - 2001 アゲハにおける偏光視と色覚に関わる神経機構
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Papers (60)：
Daiki Wakita, Hiromichi Shibasaki, Michiyo Kinoshita, Kentaro Arikawa. Morphology and spectral sensitivity of long visual fibers and lamina monopolar cells in the butterfly Papilio xuthus. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2024
Uwe Homberg, Michelle Kirchner, Kevin Kowalewski, Vanessa Pitz, Michiyo Kinoshita, Martina Kern, Jutta Seyfarth. Comparative morphology of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons innervating the central complex in the brain of dicondylian insects. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2023. 531. 14. 1482-1508
Michiyo Kinoshita, Kentaro Arikawa. ‘Color’ processing in the butterfly visual system. Trends in Neurosciences. 2023. 46. 5. 338-340
Clément Céchetto, Kentaro Arikawa, Michiyo Kinoshita. Motion-sensitive neurons activated by chromatic contrast in a butterfly visual system. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 2022. 377. 1862. 20210277-20210277
Atsuko Matsushita, Finlay Stewart, Marko Ilić, Pei-Ju Chen, Daiki Wakita, Naoyuki Miyazaki, Kazuyoshi Murata, Michiyo Kinoshita, Gregor Belušič, Kentaro Arikawa. Connectome of the lamina reveals the circuit for early color processing in the visual pathway of a butterfly. Current biology : CB. 2022. 32. 10. 2291-2299
Finlay J. Stewart, Michiyo Kinoshita, Kentaro Arikawa. Colour and motion vision in a tetrachromatic butterfly. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 2017. 57. E419-E419
Kinosita M, Homberg U. Insect brain-from common design to behavior. Brain Evolution by Design. 2017. 123-152
Visual cues for flower foraging in Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus
(The 67th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan 2020)
Visual cues in flower foraging and egg laying in Papilio butterfly
(The 90th meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan in Osaka 2019)
Visual pathways through the mushroom body and the anterior optic tubercle in the brain of flower foraging butterfly, Papilio xuthus.
(International Conference of Invertebrate Vision 2019)
