Research theme for competitive and other funds (23):
2023 - 2028 Longevity engineering: Mechanisms underlying active longevity in the extremely long-lived organisms
2018 - 2024 Effect of genomic imprinting on caste determination of social insects
2018 - 2024 Influence of genomic imprinting on caste determination in social insects
2018 - 2023 Antiaging system of long-lived termite kings
2015 - 2020 寄生蜂の性特異的な防御機構の分子メカニズム
2015 - 2020 Invasion mechanisms of exotic ants with special focus on Japanese invaders
2018 - 2019 Molecular basis for the active aging of termite kings with extraordinary longevity
2013 - 2018 Royal Epigenetics: Molecular basis of the extended longevity of reproductives in social insects
2011 - 2015 Study on the mechanism of biological invasion in ants by focusing on the Japanese invader, Pachycondyla chinensis.
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2009 - 2012 シロアリと卵擬態菌核菌ターマイトボールの相互作用
2009 - 2012 シロアリのカースト分化制御メカニズムの解明
2009 - 2012 Interection between termites and termite-egg mimicking fungi
2009 - 2011 Integration of sociobiology and community ecology by life history strategy theory : widely focusing on invasive ants, clonal plants and corals
2006 - 2008 Sex and non-sex in social evolution in insects
2004 - 2008 シロアリの卵運搬本能を利用した駆除技術の開発
2007 - 2007 シロアリと卵擬態菌核菌の相互作用の解明
2005 - 2007 シロアリにおけるコロニーの遺伝的多様性と病気に対する抵抗性の関係分析
2007 - Sex and social evolution
2006 - 遺伝的には不死身の女王:シロアリの単為生殖による後継女王の生産
2003 - 2005 シロアリのコロニー間相互作用に関する認識と意志決定機構の解明
2000 - 2002 シロアリ社会の開放性と閉鎖性の決定機構およびヤマトシロアリと菌核菌の共生
2000 - The cuckoo fungus "termite ball" mimicking termite eggs: a novel insect-fungal association
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Papers (116):
Simon Hellemans, Mauricio M. Rocha, Menglin Wang, Johanna Romero Arias, Duur K. Aanen, Anne-Geneviève Bagnères, Aleš Buček, Tiago F. Carrijo, Thomas Chouvenc, Carolina Cuezzo, et al. Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites. Nature Communications. 2024. 15. 1
Yao Wu, Tadahide Fujita, Yusuke Namba, Kazuya Kobayashi, Mamoru Takata, Edward L. Vargo, Kenji Matsuura. Inter-clonal competition over queen succession imposes a cost of parthenogenesis on termite colonies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2024. 291. 2023
M. Nakashima, Y. Mitaka, T. Inagaki, K. Matsuura. An antifungal compound secreted by termite workers, phenylacetic acid, inhibits the growth of both termite egg-mimicking fungus and entomopathogenic fungi. Insectes Sociaux. 2024
Yuki Mitaka, Kenji Matsuura, Toshiharu Akino. Dehydroabietic acid, an aromatic abietane diterpenoid, attracts termite workers. Applied Entomology and Zoology. 2024
Yuki Mitaka, Kenji Matsuura, Toshiharu Akino. Even- and odd-numbered fatty acids used as worker arrestant aggregation pheromone components in the Formosan subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus. Chemoecology. 2024