Research theme for competitive and other funds (10):
2020 - 2023 How external female genital mutilation evolved in genus Cyclosa?
2017 - 2020 Monandry by female genital mutilation and its evolution in orb-web spiders
2015 - 2019 Construction for Sharing educational tools about natural environments in Liberal Arts
2015 - 2018 Solution and preparation to collect and archive movie data in natural history museums
2014 - 2018 Ecological factor that drives evolution of body color variation in orb-web spiders
2011 - 2015 The mechanism to maintain body color variation and its relationship with foraging ecology in orb-web spider
2008 - 2010 How the constraint in spider's information processing ability affects its web-building behavior and interspecific interaction?
2005 - 2007 鳥捕食者と餌昆虫の紫外線知覚能が円網性クモの生態に与える影響について
2003 - 2004 円網性クモにおける網構造の多様性と餌認知及び捕食行動の関係について
1998 - 1999 アリの性投資比のコロニー間変異と自己組織化過程
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Papers (41):
Kensuke Nakata, Yusuke Shigemiya. Sexual conflict underlying external female genital mutilation in spiders: assessing whether females benefit from multiple matings. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025
Nakata, K., Shigemiya, Y. Interspecific variability of the external female genital mutilation rate and its relationship with female aggression and sexual cannibalism in Cyclosa spiders. Journal of Ethology. 2024. 42. 3
Kensuke Nakata. Relationship between body colour and microhabitat breadth in an orb-web spider. BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 2021. 134. 3. 679-684
Kensuke Nakata. Association between external female genital mutilation and securing paternity in a spider. ETHOLOGY. 2021. 127. 4. 366-371
Shigenori Karasawa, Kensuke Nakata. Invasion stages and potential distributions of seven exotic terrestrial isopods in Japan. BioRisk. 2018. 13. 53-76
ISHIDA So, NAKATA Kensuke, NISHI Hirotaka, YABUTA Shinji. Issues associated with the operation of biological moving image data archives: A questionnaire research involving biologists. Dejitaru Akaibu Gakkaishi. 2019. 3. 3. 334-344
Kensuke Nakata. The past and the future of the Journal of Ethology: a message from the new editor-in-chief. JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY. 2017. 35. 1. 1-2
Nakata Kensuke. Cost and benefit of wood stove use. Kensuke Nakata. bulletin of Kansai Organization for Nature Conservation. 2015. 37. 1. 15-20