2016 - 2019 Unlock the biodiversity and functioning in food-webs using metabarcoding and metagenomics
2014 - 2018 Exploring the universal rule to produce an endemic mammalian species on continent based on phylogeographic and biogeographic characteristics of fauna including many endemic species
2013 - 2018 The process of immigration by humans of commensal house shrews around the Indian Ocean
2012 - 2015 Macroscopic Examinations of Convergence Strategy of Sensory, Masticatory and Locomotor Systems in Insectivora.
2009 - 2011 Functional-morphological studies of the phenotypes polyphyletically observed in the insectivores
2008 - 2010 日中産小型哺乳類の類縁関係と種多様性進化
2008 - 2010 Phylogenetic relationships and species diversity evolution in small mammals between Japan and China
2007 - 2010 チベット高原横断鉄道による野生動物への影響に関する研究
2007 - 2010 Study on the influence of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway on wild animals
2003 - 2004 Phylogenetic study on the multiple origin and genetic introgression in wild populations of the Japanese large field mouse
2003 - 2004 Study on habitat fragmentation in small mammals by mountain geomorphologic barrier and conservation of small mammal species richness
2001 - 2002 東アジア産小型哺乳類の種分化と系統分類に関する研究
2001 - 2002 Systematics and speciation of the East Asian small mammals
1999 - 2000 琉球列島におけるジネズミ類の種分化と系統進化に関する研究
1999 - 2000 Speciation and Phylogenetic evolution of the white-toothed shrews in the Ryukyu Archipelago
1999 - 1999 人為環境に生息する小哺乳類の系統と分類
1999 - 1999 Phylogeny and systematics of the small mammals living around humans
1998 - 1999 日本列島におけるニホンジネズミの種分化と系統進化に関する研究
1998 - 1999 Study on the speciation and phylogenetic evolution of the Japanese white-toothed shrew in the Japanese Archipelago
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Papers (162):
SHINYA OKABE, MASAHARU MOTOKAWA, YUKI KOIZUMI, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, HAI TUAN BUI. A new species of the genus Scincella (Squamata: Scincidae) from Mount Fansipan, Hoang Lien Son Range, northwestern Vietnam. Zootaxa. 2024. 5537. 3. 407-423
Yugo Ikeda, Takahiro Yamagata, Saw Bawm, Thidalay Thwe, Khin Myat Myat Zaw, Masaharu Motokawa, Satoshi D. Ohdachi. Skull Shape Differences among Myanmar and Adjacent Populations of the House Shrew, Suncus murinus (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla): Insights into Allometry and Phylogenetic Variances Using Geometric Morphometrics. Mammal Study. 2024. 50. 1
Shinya Okabe, Masaharu Motokawa. Geographic Variation of Dymecodon pilirostris (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae) with an Insight to Mountain Island in Japan. Mammal Study. 2024. 49. 4
Yugo Ikeda, Hyeji Kang, Yoo-Kyung Kim, Hong-Shik Oh, Masaharu Motokawa. Nasal Bone Variability in two Japanese Horseshoe Bats Revealed by 3-Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics. Acta Chiropterologica. 2024. 25. 2
Wai Min Thu, Takashi O. Yato, Shinya Okabe, Yuta Shintaku, Masaharu Motokawa. Morphological Variation of the House Mouse Mus musculus and the Ryukyu Mouse M. caroli (Mammalia: Muridae) from Japan. Mammal Study. 2023. 49. 1
Masaharu Motokawa. Message from the Co-chair of Organizing Committee. Kyoto University and University of Yangon International Symposium "Asian Multilateral Research Network for Vertebrate Species Diversity" and The 7th International Symposium on Asian Vertebrate Species Diversity, Program and Abstracts. 2017. 5
Species diversity of small mammals from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Southeast Asia
(2018 Frontiers of Zoology Forum 2018)
Challenge of Asian vertebrate species diversity research network from Kyoto University
(Kyoto University and University of Yangon International Symposium 2017)
- 1997 Kyoto University Graduate School, Division of Natural Science
- 1993 Kyoto University Faculty of Science
- 1993 Kyoto University Faculty of Science
Work history (4):
2016/04 - 現在 Kyoto University The Kyoto University Museum Professor
2009/09 - 2016/03 Kyoto University The Kyoto University Museum Associate Professor
2007 - 2009/09 Kyoto University The Kyoto University Museum Assistant Professor
1997/04 - 2007/03 Kyoto University The Kyoto University Museum Assistant Professor
Awards (4):
2017 - Mammal Society of Japan Society Award
2008 - Zoological Society of Japan Young Scientist Award
2007 - Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology Young Scientist Award
2003 - The Mammalogical Society of Japan Young Scientist Award
Association Membership(s) (8):
ドイツ哺乳類学会(The German Society of Mammalogy)
, 哺乳類進化学会(The Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution)
, アメリカ哺乳類学会(American Society of Mammalogists)
, 沖縄生物学会
, 日本生物地理学会
, 日本動物分類学会
, 日本哺乳類学会
, 日本動物学会