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section Work history
Asst. Prof. @Kyoto Univ. : active, Asst. Prof., 2020-04-01, 2026-03-31
JSPS PD @Kyoto Univ. : active, PD, 2018-04-01, 2020-03-31
Program-Specific Asst. Prof. @Kyoto Univ. : active, Program-Specific Asst. Prof., 2017-04-01, 2018-03-31
Doctoral Research Fellow @TUAT : active, Program-Specific Asst. Prof., 2013-10-01, 2017-03-31
section Education
Ph.D. @TUAT : Ph.D., 2010-04-01, 2013-09-18
M.S. @TUAT : M.S., 2007-04-01, 2010-03-31
B.S. @TUAT : B.S., 2003-04-01, 2007-03-31
section Funding
JSPS KAKENHI (JP21K14863) : active, grant_young, 2021-04-01, 2026-03-31
JSPS KAKENHI (JP18J01880) : active, grant_PD, 2018-04-01, 2021-03-31
JSPS KAKENHI (JP17H06796) : active, grant_start, 2017-08-01, 2018-03-31
Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant : active, grant_Sasagawa, 2014-04-01, 2015-03-31
section Awards
Japan Ethological Society Award : crit, aw_2, 2020-11-21, 2w
Poster Award : crit, aw_1, 2012-11-24, 2w
section Publications
Takata & Matsuo (2025) Popul. Ecol. : crit, Takata & Matsuo 2025, 2025-01-07, 2w
Osaki et al. (2024) Ecol. Evol. : Osaki et al. 2024, 2024-10-17, 2w
Wu et al. (2024) Proc. R. Soc. B : Wu et al. 2024, 2024-05-22, 2w
Tamannaa et al. (2024) Med. Mass Spectrom. : Tamannaa et al. 2024, 2024-04-01, 2w
Wu et al. (2023) PLOS ONE : Wu et al. 2023, 2023-11-02, 2w
Ishibashi et al. (2023) Dev. Growth Differ. : Ishibashi et al. 2023, 2023-07-18, 2w
Takata et al. (2023) Sci. Nat. : crit, Takata et al. 2023c, 2023-07-17, 2w
Tasaki et al. (2023) PNAS Nexus : Tasaki et al. 2023, 2023-07-04, 2w
Takata et al. (2023) Sci. Rep : crit, Takata et al. 2023b, 2023-05-31, 2w
Takata et al. (2023) iScience : crit, Takata et al. 2023a, 2023-03-17, 2w
Konishi et al. (2023) Proc. R. Soc. B : Konishi et al. 2023, 2023-01-04, 2w
Tamaki et al. (2021) Biol. Lett. : Tamaki et al. 2021, 2021-12-22, 2w
Tasaki et al. (2021) Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B : Tasaki et al. 2021, 2021-04-26, 2w
Takata et al. (2020) Insect. Soci. : crit, Takata et al. 2020, 2020-09-22, 2w
Takata et al. (2019) iScience : crit, Takata et al. 2019, 2019-09-27, 2w
Takata et al. (2018) J. Insec. Behav. : crit, Takata et al. 2018, 2018-04-14, 2w
Hayashi et al. (2017) J. Insec. Behav. : Hayashi et al. 2017, 2017-04-29, 2w
Satoh et al. (2016) Insect Conserv. Divers. : Satoh et al. 2016, 2016-07-16, 2w
Fukano et al. (2016) J. Evol. Biol. : Fukano et al. 2016, 2016-04-01, 2w
Takata et al. (2016) J. Evol. Biol. : crit, Takata et al. 2016, 2016-01-01, 2w
Koyama et al. (2015) J. Gen. Virol. : Koyama et al. 2015, 2015-07-01, 2w
Takata et al. (2015) J. Ethol. : crit, Takata et al. 2015, 2015-05-28, 2w
Takata et al. (2014) J. Evol. Biol. : crit, Takata et al. 2014, 2014-09-01, 2w
Oyama et al. (2014) Domest. Anim. Endocrinol. : Oyama et al. 2014, 2014-01-01, 2w
Koyama et al. (2013) Trends Entomol. : Koyama et al. 2013, 2013-12-01, 2w
Takata et al. (2013) J. Ethol. : crit, Takata et al. 2015b, 2013-04-21, 2w
Takata et al. (2013) J. Ethol. : crit, Takata et al. 2015a, 2013-02-23, 2w
Education
- B.S. in Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2007
- M.S. in Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2010
- Ph.D. in United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2013
Fellowship
- 2018-2021 JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists, PD
Academic Positions
- 2017-2018 Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
- 2021-present Assistant professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Part-time Lecturer
- 2015-2017 Faculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University
Honors and Prizes
- 2020 Japan Ethological Society Award
Presentation Awards
- 2012 Poster Award, Japan Ethological Society
- 2007 Award for The Best Presentation, Department of Biological Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Competitive Grants
- 2021-(2026) Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Project No. 21K14863)
- 2018-2021 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Project No. 18J01880)
- 2017-2018 Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Project No. 17H06796)
Publications
Total: 27
- Genetic variation among populations in parental exclusion of heterospecific larvae in burying beetles
- 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.
- Maternal determination of soldier proportion and paternal determination of soldier sex ratio in hybrid Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) termite colonies
Wu Y., Chen J., Takata M., Matsuura K. (2023) PLOS ONE 18: e0293096.
- Plastic brain structure changes associated with the division of labor and aging in termites
Ishibashi T., Waliullah A.S.M., Aramaki S., Kamiya M., Kahyo T., Nakamura K., Tasaki E., Takata M., Setou M., Matsuura K. (2023) Development, Growth & Differentiation 65: 374-383.
- A method for estimating colony size using queen fecundity in termites under field conditions
Takata M., Yabe K., Noro S., Mizote S., Konishi T., Tasaki E., Matsuura K. (2023) The Science of Nature 110: 35.
- The royal food of termites shows king and queen specificity
Tasaki E., Mitaka Y., Takahashi Y., Waliullah A.S.M., Tamannaa Z., Sakamoto T., Islam A., Kamiya M., Sato T., Aramaki S., Kikushima K., Horikawa M., Nakamura K., Kahyo T., Takata M., Setou M., Matsuura K. (2023) PNAS Nexus 2: 1-12.
- Discovery of an underground chamber to protect kings and queens during winter in temperate termites
Takata M., Konishi T., Nagai S., Wu Y., Nozaki T., Tasaki E., Matsuura K. (2023) Scientific Reports 13: 8809.
- Heritable effects on caste determination and colony-level sex allocation in termites under field conditions
Takata M., Nagai S., Inagaki T., Ohkubo Y., Tasaki E., Matsuura K. (2023) iScience 26: 106207.
- King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites
Konishi T., Tasaki E., Takata M., Matsuura K. (2023) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290: 20221942.
- The lose-to-win strategy of the weak: intraspecific parasitism via egg abduction in a termite
Tamaki C., Takata M., Matsuura K. (2021) Biology Letters 17: 20210540.
- Why and how do termite kings and queens live so long?
Tasaki E., Takata M., Matsuura K. (2021) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376: 20190740.
- A non-invasive method for sexing first and second instar larvae of termites using external morphology
Takata M., Inagaki T., Ishibashi T., Tasaki E., Matsuura K. (2020) Insectes Sociaux 67: 487-493.
- A parental volatile pheromone triggers offspring begging in a burying beetle
Takata M., Mitaka Y., Steiger S., Mori N. (2019) iScience 19: 1260-1278.
- Mating triggers queen elimination by workers of Japanese harvester ant (Messor aciculatus)
Takata M., Thomas C.E., Koyama S. (2018) Journal of Insect Behavior 31: 277-282.
- Return of drones: flight experience improves returning performance in honeybee drones
Hayashi S., Farkhary S.I., Takata M., Satoh T., Koyama S. (2017) Journal of Insect Behavior 30: 237-246.
- Contemporary evolution of host plant range expansion in an introduced herbivorous beetle Ophraella communa
Fukano Y., Doi H., Thomas C.E., Takata M., Koyama S., Satoh T. (2016) Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29: 757-765.
- Resource partitioning based on body size contributes to the species diversity of woodâboring beetles and arboreal nesting ants
Satoh T., Yoshida T., Koyama S., Yamagami A., Takata M., Doi H., Kurachi T., Hayashi S., Hirobe T., Hata Y. (2016) Insect Conservation and Diversity 9: 4-12.
- Control of parental investment changes plastically over time with residual reproductive value
Takata M., Doi H., Thomas C.E., Koyama S. (2016) Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29: 199-204.
- The proximate cause of asynchronous hatching in the burying beetle Nicrophorus quadripunctatus
Takata M., Hayashi S., Thomas C.E., Koyama S. (2015) Journal of Ethology 33: 197-203.
- Identification, characterization and full-length sequence analysis of a novel dsRNA virus isolated from the arboreal ant Camponotus yamaokai
Koyama S., Urayama S., Ohmatsu T., Sassa Y., Sakai C., Takata M., Hayashi S., Nagai M., Furuya T., Moriyama H., Satoh T., Ono S., Mizutani T. (2015) Journal of General Virology 96: 1930-1937.
- Asynchronous hatching in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus quadripunctatus, maximizes parental fitness
Takata M., Hayashi S., Thomas C.E., Koyama S., Satoh T., Fugo H. (2014) Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 1830-1836.
- Saliva collection by using filter paper for measuring cortisol levels in dogs
Oyama D., Hyodo M., Doi H., Kurachi T., Takata M., Koyama S., Satoh T., Watanabe G. (2014) Domestic Animal Endocrinology 46: 20-25.
- Asynchronous hatching and brood reduction by filial cannibalism in the burying beetle Nicrophorus quadripunctatus
Takata M., Koyama S., Satoh T., Fugo H. (2013) Journal of Ethology 31: 249-254.
- Relationship between the size of the parasitoid wasp Dinocampus coccinellae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and host ladybird species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Koyama S., Thomas C.E., Takata M. (2013) Trends in Entomology 9: 39-43.
- Paternity assurance before and after fertilization by male burying beetles (Nicrophorus quadripunctatus)
Takata M., Kurachi T., Koyama S., Satoh T., Fugo H. (2013) Journal of Ethology 31: 185-191.