2022 - 2027 Interdiciplinery study on dispersal and adaptation of the Late Paleolithic Homo sapiens in Okinawa Islands
2023 - 2026 Terrestrial mammal adaptation on islands through the case study of the Ryukyu Archipelago mammals
2022 - 2024 Development of a paleodietary reconstruciton method for crocodilians through feeding experiments and its application to extinct crocodillians
2020 - 2023 New frontiers in dental microwear texture analysis: towards reconstruction of dinosaur paleoecology
2019 - 2022 Unveiling the process and mechanism of insular dwarfism in large mammals
2017 - 2021 Functional morphology of teeth in large herbivorous mammals
2014 - 2016 Determine the insular process and mechanism of sika deer based on ecology, morphology and genetic information
2013 - 2016 草食動物の大臼歯の形態進化に関する進化生態学的研究
2010 - 2012 Ecological response to environmental fluctuations and morphological evolution of terrestrial mammals in Ryukyu Islands during Pleistocene.
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Papers (46):
Shun Kobayashi, Mugino O. Kubo, Shoji Hayashi. Preface: Advances in Research on the Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Ryukyu Endemic Mammals. Mammal Study. 2025. 50. 2
Kai Ito, Mugino O. Kubo, Ryo Kodera, Sei-ichiro Takeda, Hideki Endo. Quantitative assessment of masticatory muscles based on skull muscle attachment areas in Carnivora. The Anatomical Record. 2024
Daniela E. Winkler, Hitomi Seike, Shinji Nagata, Mugino O. Kubo. Mandible microwear texture analysis of crickets raised on diets of different abrasiveness reveals universality of diet-induced wear. Interface Focus. 2024
Tai Kubo, Mugino O. Kubo, Manabu Sakamoto, Daniela E. Winkler, Masateru Shibata, Wenjie Zheng, Xingsheng Jin, Hai-Lu You. Dental microwear texture analysis reveals a likely dietary shift within Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs. Palaeontology. 2023