Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2019 - 2021 魚類病害虫ハダムシの分類学的問題解決と寄生動態解明による防除・予防法の開発
2015 - 2018 Parasite fauna of alien fishes, and factors responsible for establishment of their parasites in introduced countries
2015 - 2018 外来単生虫類相とその侵入機構解明による外来寄生虫の対策方法確立
Papers (71):
Yuki Kita, Masato Nitta, Hiroshi Kajihara. Systematics of Pseudocavisoma (Acanthocephala: Echinorhynchida): assessment of familial affiliation, establishment of a new species, and complementary redescription of the type species based on syntypes. Systematic Parasitology. 2024. 101. 6. 73
Kousuke Umeda, Masato Nitta, Tomokazu Takano, Kazunori Kumon, Takeshi Eba, Yuta Matsuura, Tomomasa Matsuyama. Identification of cymothoid isopods probably responsible for mass mortality of hatchery-reared Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis juveniles after transfer to sea cages. Fisheries Science. 2024
Yuki Kita, Masato Nitta, Hiroshi Kajihara. Molecular systematics and type-material-based redescription of Metarhadinorhynchus lateolabracis, with taxonomic revisions of Metarhadinorhynchus, Indorhynchus, and Neotegorhynchus (Acanthocephala: Palaeacanthocephala). Acta Parasitologica. 2024. 69. 1411-1425
Masato Nitta. Redescription of Taeniacanthus aulacocephali (Copepoda: Cyclopoida: Taeniacanthidae) parasitic on Uranoscopus japonicus Houttuyn (Uranoscopidae) from Pacific coast, Japan, with adaptation of the non-destructive DNA technique. Systematic Parasitology. 2024. 101. 49
Yuki Kita, Masato Nitta, Hiroshi Kajihara. Morphological and molecular characteristics of two species of the genus Rhadinorhynchus (Palaeacanthocephala: Echinorhynchida) from the Western Pacific. Species Diversity. 2024. 29. 1. 171-178
Nagasawa, K, Nitta, M. Two new prefecture records in Japan for a coastal marine fish parasite Anilocra clupei (Isopoda: Cymothoidae). 2024. 51. 97-101
E Ansai, M Nitta, T Saito, Y Kojima, T Waki. The first intermediate host of the invasive frog trematode Glypthelmins quieta in Japan. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 2024. 159. 9-14
Keito Tsunoda, Masato Nitta, Kenji Toyota. First record of copper shark Carcharhinus brachyurus (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) from Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Aquatic Animals. 2023. 2023. AA2023-22
Nagasawa, K, T. Asayama, Y. Fujimoto, M. Nitta. The fish louse Argulus japonicus (Branchiura: Argulidae) parasitic on common carp Cyprinus carpio in Lake Izunuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and records of argulid branchiurans in northern Honshu. Nature of Kagoshima. 2023. 50. 55-60
Nagasawa, K, Shibukawa, K, Nitta, M. Infection of Lernaea cyprinacea (Copepoda: Lernaeidae) on medaka, Oryzias latipes, in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Nature of Kagoshima. 2020. 47. 203-207
2021/06 - 2022/04 National Institute for Basic Biology Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of BioResources Researcher
2021/04 - 2022/04 Hiroshima University Setouchi Field Science Center, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life Visiting Researcher
2018/04 - 2021/03 Kobe University Graduate School of Science Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow - SPD
2017/04 - 2018/03 Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University Department of Bioresource Science Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow - PD
2015/04 - 2017/03 Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University Department of Bioresource Science Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow - DC1
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Awards (3):
2024/06 - 日本動物分類学会 若手論文賞
2017/08 - 8th International Symposium on Monogenea The 2nd place in Student Poster Presentation
2017/06 - Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology Young Scientist Award
Association Membership(s) (5):
The Ecological Society of Japan
, The Japanese Society of Parasitology
, Japan Symbiosis Society
, THE BIOGEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY