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, Yeh HT, Uematsu K, Fukatsu T, Kutsukake M. Occurrence of sexuparae in the aphid Quernaphis tuberculata (Hemiptera) and its close affinity with “Monzenia” minuta. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology. 2024. 30. 346-356
Aoki S, Kurosu U, Uematsu K, Fukatsu T, Ogawa H, Tokuda M, Kutsukake M. Galls of the aphid Tuberaphis coreana (Hemiptera) found on Styrax japonicus in Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology. 2024. 30. 89-98
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
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