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Yasui Yukio

ヤスイ ユキオ | Yasui Yukio
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Homepage URL  (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Yasui
Research field  (3): Conservation science (plants) ,  Evolutionary biology ,  Ecology and environmental science
Research keywords  (8): 進化生物学 ,  動物生態学 ,  昆虫学 ,  行動生態学 ,  Evolutionary Biology ,  Animal Ecology ,  Entomology ,  Behavioral Ecology
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (8):
  • 2024 - 2029 Fidelity or cuckoldry? Bet-hedging Strategies of the Female Repeated Mating with a Single Male and the Female Polyandrous Mating with Different Males
  • 2021 - 2024 Evolution of resistant females and mechanisms of emergence of promiscuous females and countermeasures
  • 2019 - 2024 empirical tests of bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis in female insects
  • 2014 - 2019 Genetic bet-hedging as a mechanism for the evolution of polyandry, reexamined
  • 2011 - 2013 The evolution of female multiple mating as a life-history strategy
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Papers (33):
  • Yukio Yasui, Eisuke Hasegawa. The evolution of sex reconsidered: Resource limits offset the twofold cost of males. 2024
  • Yukio Yasui, Eisuke Hasegawa. Male contributions to female-male mutualism overcome the twofold cost of sex. 2024
  • Yuto Yamamoto, Yukio Yasui. Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating. Journal of Ethology. 2023. 42. 1. 61-69
  • Yukio Yasui. Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae). Journal of Ethology. 2023
  • Yukio Yasui, Eisuke Hasegawa. Son’s contribution to mother’s fitness can overcome the twofold cost of sex. 2023
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MISC (6):
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Books (7):
  • 動物の行動と心の事典
    朝倉書店 2025 ISBN:9784254172058
  • 動物学の百科事典
    丸善出版 2018
  • 行動生物学辞典
    東京化学同人 2013 ISBN:9784807908370
  • 生物学辞典
    東京化学同人 2010 ISBN:9784807907359
  • 生態学事典
    共立出版 2003
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Lectures and oral presentations  (24):
  • Solving the paradox of sex: Why are there males and females?
    (Monthly seminar, Bioinformatics Analysis Center, Kagawa University 2025)
  • bet-hedging(両賭け)は適応度の平均値と分散のトレードオフを緩和する
    (日本生態学会第72回全国大会 (2025年3月、札幌) 2025)
  • Gripper vs. Kicker: Effects of male suckers and female hind legs on mating in diving beetle (Eretes griseus)
    (日本生態学会第72回全国大会 (2025年3月、札幌) 2025)
  • 性の進化の謎を解く:性の2倍のコストはいかにして乗り越えられたか?
    (日本動物行動学会第42回大会 2023)
  • コクヌストモドキとオオツノコクヌストモドキの二種間の繁殖における相互作用の検証
    (日本生態学会第70回大会 2023)
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Works (1):
  • Evolution of polyandry (female multiple mating)
    2010 -
Education (6):
  • - 1993 Hokkaido University Graduate School, Division of Agriculture Agricultural Biology
  • - 1993 Hokkaido University
  • - 1989 Kyoto Prefectural University Graduate School, Division of Agriculture Agriculture
  • - 1989 Kyoto Prefectural University Graduate School of Agriculture (DC)
  • - 1987 Kyoto Prefectural University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Agriculture
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Professional career (3):
  • Master of Agriculture (Graduate School, Kyoto Prefectural University)
  • Bachelor of Agriculture (Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto Prefectural University)
  • Doctor of Agriculture (Graduate School, Hokkaido University)
Work history (15):
  • 2024/04 - 現在 Kagawa University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Applied Biological Science Professor
  • 2010 - 2011 西オーストラリア大学進化生物学研究センター, 客員研究員
  • 2010 - 2011 Center for Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia, Visiting Research Fellow
  • 1999 - 2000 科学技術振興事業団, 科学技術特別研究員(受け入れ研究機関:環境庁国立環境研究所)
  • 1999 - 2000 JST(Japan Science and Technology Corporation), Post Doc Research Fellow in National Institute for Environmental Studies
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Committee career (5):
  • 2017/01 - 現在 日本動物行動学会 Springer Verlag Journal of Ethology編集委員
  • 2021/03 - 2022/04 Japan Prize Foundation Selection Subcommittee member for Japan Prize, the “Biological Production, Ecology/Environment” field
  • 2011/01 - 2016/12 Springer Verlag, 日本動物行動学会, 国際学術雑誌Journal of Ethology (Springer Verlag) 編集長
  • 2011 - 2013 Japan Ethological Society Chief Editor of Journal of Ethology
  • 2002/01 - 2003/12 日本動物行動学会 Journal of Ethology副編集長
Awards (10):
  • 2024/11 - Japan Ethological Society Journal of Ethology Editor's Choice 2024 Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating
  • 2024/04 - Wiley Ecological Research Top Cited Article 2022-2023 Evolutionary bet-hedging reconsidered: What is the mean-variance trade-off of fitness? Ecological Research, 37(3), 406-420.
  • 2023/11 - Japan Ethological Society Journal of Ethology Editor's Choice 2023
  • 2023/04 - Springer-Nature 2022 Springer-Nature, Research Highlights - Evolutionary Biology The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy
  • 2023/03 - Ecological Society of Japan Excellent poster award in the 70th annual meeting of Ecological Society of Japan The reproductive interference between two related species of the flour beetle
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Association Membership(s) (4):
日本生態学会 ,  日本動物行動学会 ,  Ecological Society of Japan ,  Japan Ethological Society
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