Research field (4):
Forest science
, Entomology
, Biodiversity and systematics
, Ecology and environmental science
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5):
2021 - 2023 The effect of climate on the evolutionary process of lepturine beetle-yeast symbioses
2018 - 2021 Importance of symbiotic microbes on the diversification of wood-dwelling insects
2015 - 2018 非社会性昆虫コメツキモドキにおける最も発達した栽培共生「農耕」の起源
2013 - 2015 Evolution of agriculture and sociality: approach from cultivation mutualism between non-social insect and yeast
2008 - 2010 「樹木-カミキリ-線虫」三者系の共種分化プロセス
Papers (36):
Yamamoto D, Toki W. Presence of non-symbiotic yeasts in a symbiont-transferring organ of a stag beetle that lacks yeast symbionts found in other stag beetles. Scientific reports. 2023. 13. 1. 3726
Toki Wataru. Fungal community of mycetangia in the ship-timber beetle Elateroides dermestoides (Coleoptera: Lymexylidae) in Japan. SYMBIOSIS. 2023
Kishigami M, Matsuoka F, Maeno A, Yamagishi S, Abe H, Toki W. Yeast associated with flower longicorn beetle Leptura ochraceofasciata (Cerambycidae: Lepturinae), with implication for its function in symbiosis. PloS one. 2023. 18. 3. e0282351
Toki Wataru, Aoki Dan. Nutritional resources of the yeast symbiont cultivated by the lizard beetle Doubledaya bucculenta in bamboos. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2021. 11. 1. 19208
Toki Wataru, Chiu Ming-Chung, Huang Ching-Gi, Wu Wen-Jer. Larval host plants of two lizard beetles in the genus Tetraphala (Coleoptera, Erotylidae, Languriinae, Languriini) from Taiwan, with a host plant list of Languriini. ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 2021. 24. 1. 103-108