2018 - 2022 Molecular analyses of tyrosine synthesis and accumulation mechanisms in soldier aphids that has evolved with gall repairing behavior.
2013 - 2016 Molecular and evolutionary analyses of social aphids by using next generation sequencing techniques
2011 - 2012 Molecular, cellular and developmental bases of gall repair in a social aphid.
2009 - 2010 Molecular mechanisms of caste differentiation and division of labor in social aphids
2006 - 2008 Molecular analysis of gall repair by soldier nymphs in a social aphid.
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Papers (34)：
Aoki S, Kurosu U, Fukatsu T, Kutsukake M. Description of a new species of the aphid genus Schizoneuraphis (Hemiptera) from southern Japan, with special reference to the long flagelliform labrum of the first-instar exule. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology. 2023. 29. 353-362
Keigo Uematsu, Mayako Kutsukake, Shuji Shigenobu, Man-Miao Yang, Harunobu Shibao, Takema Fukatsu. Seasonal polyphenism underlies the origin of a sterile caste in aphids. 2022
Shibao H, Kutsukake M, Matsuyama S, Fukatsu T. Linoleic acid as corpse recognition signal in a social aphid. Zoological Letters. 2022. 8. 2
Aoki S, Kurosu U, Fukatsu T, Hsin-Ting Y, Kutsukake M. Revision of the Japanese species of Metanipponaphis (Hemiptera, Aphididae) and its allied genera. Entomological Science. 2021. 24. 302-319
Shibao H, Kutsukake M, Fukatsu T. Temporal division of labor in an aphid social system. Scientific Reports. 2021. 11. 1183
