Recent Publications

Fight, retreat, repeat: The male-male agonistic behavior in the wood-feeding cockroach, Panesthia angustipennis spadica (Dictyoptera: Blattodea: Blaberidae)

Osaki H., Nakazono T., Yabe K., Takata M., Mikaelyan A. (2024) Ecology and Evolution 14: e70319.

Inter-clonal competition over queen succession imposes a cost of parthenogenesis on termite colonies

Wu Y., Fujita T., Namba Y., Kobayashi K., Takata M., Vargo E.L., Matsuura K. (2024) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291: 20232711.

DESI-IMS coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry demonstrated the capability of NMN imaging in Shelfordella lateralis tissue

Tamannaa Z., Sakamoto T., Mamun Md. A., Oyama S., Waliullah A.S.M., Islam A., Nabi Md. M., Aramaki S., Tasaki E., Mitaka Y., Takata M., Sato T., Kahyo T., Matsuura K., Setou M. (2024) Medical Mass Spectrometry 8: 1-9.

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Behavioral ecology, Sociobiology, Evolutionary biology, Social insects, Parental care, Kin selection, Caste differentiation, Termites, Burying beetles