Research theme for competitive and other funds (10):
2020 - 2025 Marine and anchialine cave biodiversity in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
2019 - 2024 Comprehensive study of diversity and evolutionary mechanisms of deep-sea animals in trenches in the northwestern Pacific
2020 - 2023 寄生性等脚類の寄生場所の選択と形態適応に関する研究
2017 - 2021 Study on the novel exhibition methods and theories for natural history exhibition by the use of real scientific objects
2015 - 2018 Study of morphological plasticity of parasitc isopod curstaceans
2012 - 2015 Taxonomic study of hyperparasitic isopods (Crustacea: Cryptoniscoidea)
2008 - 2012 Studies on life cycles of aquatic parasites, in particular, host-specificities of their infective stages
2009 - 2011 TAXONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC STUDIES OF PARASITIC ISOPOD CRUSTACEANS
2006 - 2008 TAXONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC STUDIES OF EPICARIDEAN ISOPODS
2003 - 2005 深海性小型甲殻類ミズムシ亜目の分類・系統に関する研究
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Papers (106):
Takeshi Sonoda, Susumu Chiba, Tomoyasu Yamazaki, Takahiro Nobetsu, Hideaki Fujiya, Tomoyuki Komai, Noboru Nunomura, Michitaka Shimomura, Ko Tomikawa, Keiichi Kakui, et al. Marine macroinvertebrate fauna of the shallow coastal waters of the Shiretoko Peninsula, a World Natural Heritage at Hokkaido, Japan. Plankton and Benthos Research. 2024. 19. 1. 1-16
Ryutaro Goto, Isao Hirabayashi, Koji Seike, Momo Yamashita, Michitaka Shimomura. Living together in dead coral rocks: macrosymbiotic communities associated with Bonellia echiuran worms (Annelida: Thalassematidae: Bonelliinae), involving new commensal bivalve and amphipod species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2023. XX. 1-25
Dewi C. Murniati, Akira Asakura, Tomoyuki Nakano, Michitaka Shimomura. Morphology of the gastric mill teeth in dotillid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dotillidae) from Indonesia. Journal of Morphology. 2023. 284. 7
HIROKI FUJITA, PANAKKOOL THAMBAN ANEESH, KENTARO KAWAI, SHIN-ICHI KITAMURA, MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA, TETSUYA UMINO, SUSUMU OHTSUKA. Redescription and molecular characterization of Mothocya parvostis Bruce, 1986 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) parasitic on Japanese halfbeak, Hyporhamphus sajori (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Hemiramphidae) with Mothocya sajori Bruce, 1986 placed into synonymy. Zootaxa. 2023. 5277. 2. 259-286