2014 - 2016 Determine the insular process and mechanism of sika deer based on ecology, morphology and genetic information
2007 - 2008 Evolutionary process on the formation of two distinct lineages of sika deer in the Japanese archipelago-testing the multiple-colonization hypothesis
2005 - 2007 Population estimation using microsatellite DNA and population structure analysis using mitochondria DNA in populations of endangered Amami rabbit Pentalagus furnesii
Hayato Iijima, Junco Nagata, Ayako Izuno, Kentaro Uchiyama, Nobuhiro Akashi, Daisuke Fujiki, Takeo Kuriyama. Current sika deer effective population size is near to reaching its historically highest level in the Japanese archipelago by release from hunting rather than climate change and top predator extinction. The Holocene. 2023. 095968362311570-095968362311570
Junco Nagata, Yuya Watari, Toshihito Takagi, Shirow Tatsuzawa, Shingo Kaneko. Genetic identification of the origin of introduced deer on Kikai-jima Island. Honyurui Kagaku (Mammalian Science). 2023. 63. 1. 109-117
Junco Nagata, Yusuke Goto, Toshihito Takagi, Shingo Kaneko, Masashi Harada. Possible origin area of sika deer confirmed in southwestern Ibaraki Prefecture, inferred by mitochondrial DNA. Wildlife and Human Society. 2023. 10. 63-73
Yuya Watari, Kaori Morishima, Kandai Doi, Junco Nagata, Kei K Suzuki. First tick fauna investigation on Akune-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, with a record of Haemaphysalis longicornis. Journal of Acarological Society of Japan. 2022. 31. 2. 89-92
山田志穂, 永田純子, 津田吉晃, 松尾歩, 加藤朱音, 兼子伸吾, 高橋裕史, 相川拓也, 陶山佳久, 津村義彦. Genetic structure of Sika deer populations at the forefront of distribution using mtDNA and nDNA analysis. 日本生態学会大会講演要旨(Web). 2021. 68th
