Research activity information

• Mar. 2024 日本昆虫学会, Best paper award, Functional, genetic, and structural constraints on the exaggeration and diversification of male genital morphology in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Karen Terada, Sogo Takahashi, Yasuoki Takami


• Dec. 2017 日本動物行動学会, Editor's Choice Award 2017, Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic species: male escapes from hungry females in the praying mantid Tenodera angustipennis

  Mika Kadoi, Kotaro Morimoto, Yasuoki Takami


• 2000 日本昆虫学会, 日本昆虫学会賞, Geographic variation in body size of some Japanese Leptocarabus species (Coleoptera, Carabidae): The "toppled-domino pattern" in species along a geographic cline

  Teiji Sota, Yasuoki Takami, Kohei Kubota, Ryosuke Ishikawa

• What are the epipleuron, cryptopleuron, and pleuron in the prothorax of the adult Carabidae (Coleoptera, Insecta)?: Redefinitions based on the muscular system

  KOBAYASHI Yukimasa, TERADA Karen, HIRAYAMA Akihiro, OOSAWA Yuuki, NIIKURA Kazuhiro, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  Last, The Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 2025, Proceedings of the Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 55, 1 - 7, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Molecular phylogenetic relationships among lineages in the genus Carabus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and radiation of the subgenus Apotomopterus

  Teiji Sota, Hongbin Liang, Hong Thai Pham, Chung-Ping Lin, Michio Hori, Yasuoki Takami, Hiroshi Ikeda

  Abstract The genus Carabus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Carabinae) is a group of predacious ground beetles found throughout Holarctic temperate zones. The diversification of this group is attributed not only to allopatric speciation but also to diversification in life-history traits and morphological traits that are involved in ecological adaptation and reproductive isolation. Precise phylogenetic reconstruction of Carabus is important to understanding the factors associated with species’ divergence in relation to such character divergence. Here, we analyse the phylogeny of Carabus among higher taxonomic groups and among species of the subgenus Apotomopterus, a hyper-diverse group endemic to East Asia. We used genome-wide sequence data from ultraconserved elements for phylogenetic reconstruction via maximum-likelihood and species-tree reconstruction methods. With regard to the relationships among higher taxonomic groups, the obtained phylogenetic trees resolved two structures with previously unresolved divergence. The subgenus Apotomopterus contained three lineages, i.e. the Vitalisi, Prodigus, and Sauteri groups. It showed diversification of the spinula, a sclerotized male genital structure, and variation in the female elytral notch (preapical emargination). These morphological traits may be involved in copulatory behaviour and potentially affect reproductive isolation, and their character state divergence may have facilitated species divergence of Apotomopterus.

  Oxford University Press (OUP), Oct. 2024, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202(2) (2), zlae125, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Sex-specific manipulation of sexually cannibalistic mantid mating behavior by hairworms

  Kazuki Kuroda, Takahiro Kuroda, Hiroto Nishino, Yasuoki Takami

  Abstract Changes in the morphology, physiology and behavior of parasitized organisms provide an ideal opportunity to examine the extended phenotype of parasites. Since the quality of the host directly affects the fitness of the parasite, parasites may increase their fitness by manipulating phenotypes of low-quality hosts. Males are usually preyed on by females in sexual cannibalism. Thus, the males of sexually cannibalistic species are unsafe and low-quality hosts for parasites, while females may be beneficial hosts because of the chance of nutrient intake from cannibalized males. Under passive modes of transmission, parasites cannot choose the host sex. Such parasites exploiting sexually cannibalistic organisms are subjected to contrasting fitness effects and may evolve to manipulate host mating behavior in a sex-specific manner: decreasing male mating to avoid cannibalism and promoting female mating to engage in cannibalism. We examined this hypothesis by a behavioral experiment using a mantid-hairworm system. Parasitized male mantids (Tenodera angustipennis) changed their behavior as expected, exhibiting increased escapes and decreased courtships and mountings, potentially avoiding encounters with the female. Interestingly, male attack behavior was promoted, possibly decreasing contact with the encountered female. However, contrary to our prediction, parasitized females also exhibited decreased propensities of mating, suggesting costs or little benefits of host mating for parasites in the female host. This study provides novel insights into the evolution of parasite strategies in response to sexual differences in host quality.

  Oxford University Press (OUP), Sep. 2024, Behavioral Ecology, 35, arae071, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid

  Hiroto Nishino, Kotaro Morimoto, Kazuki Kuroda, Yasuoki Takami

  Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Jul. 2024, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78, 82, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Interspecific difference and frequency dependence in habitat use of coexisting Ohomopterus ground beetle species under reproductive interference

  Masayuki Ujiie, Kohei Kubota, Yasuoki Takami

  Abstract In reproductive interference (RI), the fitness of individuals or populations is decreased through reproductive interactions with other species. This process results in positive frequency dependence, hindering species coexistence. However, theory predicts that species can coexist under weak RI. Habitat segregation can decrease the opportunity for reproductive interactions between species. Thus, a difference in habitat preference between species may weaken RI and facilitate coexistence. We examined this hypothesis by investigating the habitat uses of closely related Ohomopterus ground beetle species under RI, Carabus insulicola and C. esakii, in limited zones of sympatry at their distributional boundary. The effect of RI may be stronger for females of C. esakii than those of C. insulicola due to asymmetry in the genital size mismatch between the species (C. insulicola males have larger genitalia). Field surveys of local abundances and associations with local environmental parameters revealed contrasting habitat uses between the species. C. insulicola preferred open environments, while C. esakii inhabited forest environments. Interestingly, the habitat use of C. esakii, not C. insulicola, changed depending on the frequency of the other species; the species utilized habitats with a low frequency of C. insulicola. The difference in habitat use and its dependence on the frequency of the other species may facilitate species coexistence by promoting habitat segregation within a continuous landscape. Our findings provide insights into the importance of (plastic) trait differences in species distributions and coexistence under RI.

  Wiley, Jul. 2024, Population Ecology, 67, 6 - 14, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• The development of extremely large male genitalia under spatial limitation

  Karen Terada, Chinami Furumoto, Taira Nishimura, Akihiro Hirayama, Yasuoki Takami

  Abstract Extensive research in evolutionary biology has focused on the exaggeration of sexual traits; however, the developmental basis of exaggerated sexual traits has only been determined in a few cases. The evolution of exaggerated sexual traits may involve the relaxation of constraints or developmental processes mitigating constraints. Ground beetles in the subgenus Ohomopterus (genus Carabus) have species‐specific genitalia that show coevolutionary divergence between the sexes. Here, we examined the morphogenesis of the remarkably enlarged male and female genitalia of Carabus uenoi by X‐ray microcomputed tomography. The morphogenetic processes generating the male and female genitalia at the pupal stage were qualitatively similar to those in closely related species with standard genital sizes. Higher growth rates contributed to the exaggeration of both the male and female genital parts of C. uenoi, possibly related to a gene network commonly upregulated in both sexes. Additionally, the length of the copulatory piece (CP), the enlarged male genital part stored in the aedeagus (AD), reached close to that of the AD at the later developmental stages and thereafter decelerated to grow in parallel with the AD, suggesting a structural constraint on the CP by the outer AD. Then, unlike related species, the lengths of the CP and AD increased at eclosion, suggesting a mechanism leading to further elongation of the male genitalia. These observations suggest that a developmental process allows continuous growth of the male genitalia even under the spatial limitation. These results revealed the spatio‐temporal dynamics of the development of exaggerated genital structures under structural constraints.

  Wiley, Jun. 2024, Evolution & Development, 26, e12488, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Functional, genetic, and structural constraints on the exaggeration and diversification of male genital morphology in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Karen Terada, Sougo Takahashi, Yasuoki Takami

  Wiley, Jan. 2023, Entomological Science, 26(1) (1), e12538

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Relationships between reproductive character displacement in genital morphology and the population-level cost of interspecific mating: implications for the Templeton effect

  Taira Nishimura, Karen Terada, Tian Xia, Yasuoki Takami

  Abstract Natural selection against maladaptive interspecific reproductive interactions may cause greater divergence in mating traits between sympatric populations than between allopatric populations in a pair of species, known as reproductive character displacement (RCD) which is evidence for the lock-and-key hypothesis of genital evolution. However, the relative importance of various processes contributing to RCD in genital morphology (e.g. reinforcement, reproductive interference, and population filtering or the Templeton effect) is not clear. Here, we examined hypotheses for RCD in genital morphology, with a special focus on the Templeton effect (which predicts that only highly differentiated populations can exist in sympatry). We examined population-level fitness costs in interspecific mating between Carabus maiyasanus and Carabus iwawakianus with RCD in genital morphology. A mating experiment using populations with various degrees of RCD in genital morphology showed no evidence for consistently lower interspecific mating costs in C. maiyasanus populations in contact with displacement in genital morphology than in remote populations, contrary to the predictions of the Templeton effect. Alternatively, interspecific mating costs varied among populations. Observed relationships between the sizes of genital parts concerning isolation and interspecific mating costs across populations suggested that population-level fitness costs do not necessarily decrease during the process leading to RCD. Our results provide insight into ecological and evolutionary processes during secondary contact in closely related species.

  Oxford University Press (OUP), Jan. 2023, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 138, 14 - 26, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Reproductive isolation via divergent genital morphology due to cascade reinforcement in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Tian Xia, Taira Nishimura, Nobuaki Nagata, Kohei Kubota, Teiji Sota, Yasuoki Takami

  Wiley, Jan. 2023, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36, 169 - 182

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Paranotal lobes are appendicular in origin: elucidation by micro-CT analysis of the thoracic muscular system in the larvae of Carabus insulicola (Insecta, Coleoptera)

  Yukimasa KOBAYASHI, Heather S. BRUCE, Karen TERADA, Akihiro HIRAYAMA, Yuuki OOSAWA, Kazuhiro NIIKURA, Yasuoki TAKAMI

  Last, Dec. 2022, Proceedings of the Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 54, 1 - 9, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Earth and life evolve together from something ancestral—reply to Britz et al.

  Kazunori Yamahira, Shingo Fujimoto, Yasuoki Takami

  Last, The Royal Society, Mar. 2022, Biology Letters, 18(3) (3), 20220010, English

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Reproductive phenology and female mating frequency of the praying mantid Tenodera angustipennis in western Japan

  Yuki Nagata, Hiroto Nishino, Kazuki Kuroda, Tadashi Shinohara, Daisuke Satomi, Karen Terada, Taira Nishimura, Takahiro Kuroda, Yoshitaka Inoue, Yonghwan Park, Yasuoki Takami

  Wiley, Jan. 2022, Ecological Entomology, 47, 423 - 431, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Temporal variation dominates in local carabid beetle communities in Korean mountains

  Yonghwan Park, Taewoong Jang, Jongkuk Kim, Su-Kyung Kim, Il-Kwon Kim, Chang-Jun Kim, Yasuoki Takami

  Spatial and temporal variation in ecological environments may result in spatial and temporal variation in communities. Temporal studies of biodiversity are essential for forecasting future changes in community structure and ecosystem function. Therefore, determining the mechanisms that drive temporal change in communities remains an important and interesting challenge in ecology. We quantified spatial and temporal variations in carabid beetle communities and site-specific environmental factors for 5 years at nine study sites on three mountains in the Baekdudaegan Mountain Range, Korea. Carabid beetle communities exhibited significant temporal variation, which was larger than spatial variations between and within mountains. Environmental factors mostly varied between sites within mountains. Community variation was only weakly associated with environmental factors at wide scales, i.e., between sites on three mountains, but was strongly associated at narrow spatial scales, i.e., between sites within one mountain. Our results indicate that temporal variation in communities occurs in response to variations in the local climate, and that the patterns of temporal variation differ between mountains. Thus, temporal surveys of insect communities and climates at local scales are important for predicting temporal changes in the communities.

  Last, MDPI AG, Nov. 2021, Insects, 12(11) (11), 1019 - 1019, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Global dispersal and diversification in ground beetles of the subfamily Carabinae

  Teiji Sota, Yasuoki Takami, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hongbin Liang, Gayane Karagyan, Clarke Scholtz, Michio Hori

  Nov. 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 167, 107355 - 107355, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Reproductive character displacement in genital morphology in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Taira Nishimura, Nobuaki Nagata, Karen Terada, Tian Xia, Kohei Kubota, Teiji Sota, Yasuoki Takami

  University of Chicago Press, Oct. 2021, The American Naturalist, 199(3) (3), E76 - E90, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Prey preference of a wasp determined by nest size supports the role of natural selection in body size evolution in Cassidinae leaf beetles

  Tadashi Shinohara, Yasuoki Takami

  The prey preference of a predator can impose natural selection on prey phenotypes, including body size. Despite evidence that large body size protects against predation in insects, the determinants of body size variation in Cassidinae leaf beetles are not well understood. We examined the prey preference of the digger wasp Cerceris albofasciata, a specialist predator of adult Cassidinae leaf beetles, and found evidence for natural selection on prey body size. The wasp hunted prey smaller than the size of their nest entrance. However, the wasp preferred larger prey species among those that could be carried into their nest. Thus, the benefits of large prey and the cost associated with nest expansion might determine the prey size preference. As expected from the prey species preference, the wasp preferred small individuals of the largest prey species, Thlaspida biramosa, and large individuals of the smallest prey species, Cassida piperata, resulting in natural selection on body sizes. In intermediate-sized prey species, however, there was no evidence for selection on body size. Natural selection on body size might explain the variation of prey morphologies that increase body size, such as explanate margins, in this group.

  Last, Oxford University Press (OUP), Oct. 2021, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135, 184 - 194

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Mesozoic origin and ‘out-of-India’ radiation of ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae)

  Kazunori Yamahira, Satoshi Ansai, Ryo Kakioka, Hajime Yaguchi, Takeshi Kon, Javier Montenegro, Hirozumi Kobayashi, Shingo Fujimoto, Ryosuke Kimura, Yusuke Takehana, Davin H. E. Setiamarga, Yasuoki Takami, Rieko Tanaka, Ken Maeda, Hau D. Tran, Noriyuki Koizumi, Shinsuke Morioka, Vongvichith Bounsong, Katsutoshi Watanabe, Prachya Musikasinthorn, Sein Tun, L. K. C. Yun, Kawilarang W. A. Masengi, V. K. Anoop, Rajeev Raghavan, Jun Kitano

  The Indian subcontinent has an origin geologically different from Eurasia, but many terrestrial animal and plant species on it have congeneric or sister species in other parts of Asia, especially in the Southeast. This faunal and floral similarity between India and Southeast Asia is explained by either of the two biogeographic scenarios, ‘into-India’ or ‘out-of-India’. Phylogenies based on complete mitochondrial genomes and five nuclear genes were undertaken for ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae) to examine which of these two biogeographic scenarios fits better. We found that Oryzias setnai , the only adrianichthyid distributed in and endemic to the Western Ghats, a mountain range running parallel to the western coast of the Indian subcontinent, is sister to all other adrianichthyids from eastern India and Southeast–East Asia. Divergence time estimates and ancestral area reconstructions reveal that this western Indian species diverged in the late Mesozoic during the northward drift of the Indian subcontinent. These findings indicate that adrianichthyids dispersed eastward ‘out-of-India’ after the collision of the Indian subcontinent with Eurasia, and subsequently diversified in Southeast–East Asia. A review of geographic distributions of ‘out-of-India’ taxa reveals that they may have largely fuelled or modified the biodiversity of Eurasia.

  The Royal Society, Aug. 2021, Biology Letters, 17(8) (8), 20210212 - 20210212, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Limits to the exaggeration and diversification of a male sexual trait in the false blister beetle Oedemera sexualis

  Daisuke Satomi, Wataru Ogasa, Hiroshi Takashima, Syota Fujimoto, Chiharu Koshio, Shin‐ichi Kudo, Yasuoki Takami, Haruki Tatsuta

  Corresponding, Wiley, Apr. 2021, Entomological Science, 24(3) (3), 219 - 227

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Heterochrony and growth rate variation mediate the development of divergent genital morphologies in closely related Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Karen Terada, Taira Nishimura, Akihiro Hirayama, Yasuoki Takami

  The rapid divergence of genital morphology is well studied in the context of sexual selection and speciation; however, little is known about the developmental mechanisms underlying divergence in genitalia. Ground beetles in the subgenus Ohomopterus genus Carabus have species-specific genitalia that show coevolutionary divergence between the sexes. In this study, using X-ray microcomputed tomography, we examined the morphogenesis of male and female genitalia in two closely related Ohomopterus species with divergent genital morphologies. The morphogenetic processes generating the male and female genitalia at the pupal stage were qualitatively similar in the two species. The male aedeagus and internal sac and female bursa copulatrix were partially formed at pupation and developed gradually thereafter. The species-specific genital parts, male copulatory piece, and female vaginal appendix differed in the timing and rate of development. The relatively long copulatory piece of Carabus maiyasanus began to develop earlier, but subsequent rates of growth were similar in the two species. The timing of the formation of the vaginal appendix and initial growth rates were similar, but subsequent rapid growth led to a longer vaginal appendix in C. maiyasanus. Thus, substantial interspecific differences in the size of genital parts were mediated by different underlying developmental mechanisms between the sexes (i.e., a shift in the developmental schedule in males and a change in growth rate in females). These results revealed the spatio-temporal dynamics of species-specific genital structure development, providing a novel platform for evo-devo studies of the diversification of genital morphologies.

  Wiley, Jan. 2021, Evolution & Development, 23(1) (1), 19 - 27, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Phylogeographical analysis of character displacement in feeding phenotypes of snail-feeding Acoptolabrus ground beetles

  Kazutoshi Akiyama, Tae Woong Jang, Yong Hwan Park, Tadashi Shinohara, Junji Konuma, Hongbin Liang, Kohei Kubota, Teiji Sota, Ryosuke Ishikawa, Jung Lark Kim, Jong Kuk Kim, Yasuoki Takami

  Ecological character displacement predicts that interspecific resource competition results in greater trait divergence between species in sympatry than in allopatry. However, other processes, such as ecological sorting, result in the same pattern of trait variation. In this study, we characterize character displacement in eight species of snail-feeding Acoptolabrus ground beetles in the Far East. Acoptolabrus exhibit divergent feeding phenotypes, including species with a slender forebody that is able to intrude into large shells and species with stout heads and mandibles for crushing small shells. The pattern of character displacement in feeding phenotypes was confirmed by multivariate analysis of body dimensions. Molecular phylogenetic analysis, divergence time estimation and biogeographical analysis revealed that sympatry and phenotypic divergence occurred repeatedly during the Pleistocene and almost simultaneously within each geographical area. Comparative analysis revealed that the evolution of feeding phenotypes best fitted a selective model with three adaptive optima, corresponding to the three cases of sympatry with a congener. Repeated coincidences of sympatry and adaptive differentiation in feeding phenotypes suggested causal relationships, although the precise order of events was difficult to discriminate. This study provides insight into the spatiotemporal dynamics of interspecific interactions and adaptive phenotypic diversification.

  Oxford University Press (OUP), Dec. 2020, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(4) (4), 936 - 951, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• The origin of the giant ground beetle Aplothorax burchelli on St Helena Island

  Teiji Sota, Michio Hori, Clarke Scholtz, Gayane Karagyan, Hong-Bin Liang, Hiroshi Ikeda, Yasuoki Takami

  Aug. 2020, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(1) (1), 50 - 60, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Functional diversity and trade-offs in divergent anti-predator morphologies in herbivorous insects

  Tadashi Shinohara, Yasuoki Takami

  Last, 2020, Ecology and Evolution, 10, 5089 - 5096, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• The life history with seasonal migration of the lacustrine shrimp Palaemon paucidens in an ancient lake in Japan

  WU Qianqian, TAKAMI Yasuoki, MINAMOTO Toshifumi, ISHIKAWA Toshiyuki

  Wiley, Apr. 2019, Ecosphere, 10(4) (4), e02628, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Latitudinal variation and coevolutionary diversification of sexually dimorphic traits in the false blister beetle Oedemera sexualis

  Daisuke Satomi, Chiharu Koshio, Shin-Ichi Kudo, Haruki Tatsuta, Yasuoki Takami

  Sexual traits are subject to evolutionary forces that maximize reproductive benefits and minimize survival costs, both of which can depend on environmental conditions. Latitude explains substantial variation in environmental conditions. However, little is known about the relationship between sexual trait variation and latitude, although body size often correlates with latitude. We examined latitudinal variation in male and female sexual traits in 22 populations of the false blister beetle Oedemera sexualis in the Japanese Archipelago. Males possess massive hind legs that function as a female-grasping apparatus, while females possess slender hind legs that are used to dislodge mounting males. Morphometric analyses revealed that male and female body size (elytron length), length and width of the hind femur and tibia, and allometric slopes of these four hind leg dimensions differed significantly among populations. Of these, three traits showed latitudinal variation, namely, male hind femur was stouter; female hind tibia was slenderer, and female body was smaller at lower latitudes than at higher latitudes. Hind leg sizes and shapes, as measured by principal component analysis of these four hind leg dimensions in each sex, covaried significantly between sexes, suggesting coevolutionary diversification in sexual traits. Covariation between sexes was weaker when variation in these traits with latitude was removed. These results suggest that coevolutionary diversification between male and female sexual traits is mediated by environmental conditions that vary with latitude.

  Last, 2019, Ecology and Evolution, 9(8) (8), 4949 - 4957, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Genetic basis of species-specific genitalia reveals a role in species diversification

  Tomochika Fujisawa, Masataka Sasabe, Nobuaki Nagata, Yasuoki Takami, Teiji Sota

  The diversity of genital morphology among closely related animals with internal fertilization is well known, but the genetic backgrounds are unclear. Here, we show that, in Carabus (Ohomopterus) beetles showing correlated evolution of male and female genital parts, only a few major quantitative trait loci (QTLs) determine differences in genital dimensions between sister species, and sequence divergence is pronounced in the genomic regions containing genital QTLs. The major QTLs for male and female genital dimensions reside in different locations within the same linkage group, implying that coevolution between the sexes is only loosely constrained and can respond to sexually antagonistic selection. The same genomic regions containing the major QTLs show elevated divergence between three pairs of parapatric species with marked differences in genital parts. Our study demonstrates that species diversification can follow coevolution of genitalia between the sexes, even without tight linkage of loci affecting male and female genital dimensions.

  2019, Science Advances, 5(6) (6), eaav9939, English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Correction to: Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic species: male escapes from hungry females in the praying mantid Tenodera angustipennis

  Mika Kadoi, Kotaro Morimoto, Yasuoki Takami

  Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}, May 2018, Journal of Ethology, 36(2) (2), 211 - 211

  Scientific journal


• Impact of sexually antagonistic genital morphologies on female reproduction and wild population demography

  Yasuoki Takami, Tomohiko Fukuhara, Jun Yokoyama, Masakado Kawata

  Wiley, 2018, Evolution, 72(11) (11), 2449 - 2461, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic species: male escapes from hungry females in the praying mantid Tenodera angustipennis

  Mika Kadoi, Kotaro Morimoto, Yasuoki Takami

  May 2017, Journal of Ethology, 35(2) (2), 177 - 185, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Local climate mediates spatial and temporal variation in carabid beetle communities in three forests in Mount Odaesan, Korea

  Yonghwan Park, Jongkuk Kim, Teawoong Jang, Heemun Chae, Yasuoki Takami

  Last, Apr. 2017, ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY, 42(2) (2), 184 - 194, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Adult leaf beetles of the subfamily Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) preyed on by the digger wasp Cerceris albofasciata (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in Japan

  Tadashi Shinohara, TAKAMI YASUOKI

  Last, 2017, Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera, 113(1) (1), 213 - 218, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Rediscovery of Celes akitanus (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from seminatural grasslands in Japan

  Kei Uchida, Tadashi Shinohara, Sogo Takahashi, Naoyuki Nakahama, Yasuoki Takami, Atushi Ushimaru

  Apr. 2016, ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 19(2) (2), 89 - 96, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Ecological differentiation and habitat unsuitability maintaining a ground beetle hybrid zone

  Yasuoki Takami, Takeshi Osawa

  Jan. 2016, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 6(1) (1), 113 - 124, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• 学内博物館実習を活用したサービスラーニングの試みと効果

  TSUDA EIJI, SHIRASUGI NAOKO, KISHIMOTO YOSHIHIRO, HIRAYOSHI HIROKO, TAKAMI YASUOKI, TESHIGAWARA KIMIE, UCHIBAYASHI KANA, SHIBATA MIHO, KANAZAWA SAKI

  日本教育大学協会第二常置委員会, Mar. 2015, 日本教育大学協会研究年報, 33, 87 - 99, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Apomictic parthenogenesis in a parasitoid wasp Meteorus pulchricornis, uncommon in the haplodiploid order Hymenoptera

  Y. Tsutsui, K. Maeto, K. Hamaguchi, Y. Isaki, Y. Takami, T. Naito, K. Miura

  Jun. 2014, BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 104(3) (3), 307 - 313, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Inhibition of female mating by male accessory gland substances in the ground beetle Leptocarabus procerulus

  Nao Hayashi, Yasuoki Takami

  Mar. 2014, PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY, 39(1) (1), 12 - 18, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Fundamentals and applications of geographic information system in biogeography and its related fields

  Iwasaki Takaya, Sakaguchi Shota, Yokoyama Ryota, Takami Yasuoki, Osawa Takeshi, Ikeda Hiroshi, Suyama Yoshihisa

  Biogeography, an interdisciplinary field drawing on evolutionary ecology, community ecology, and conservation biology, aims to elucidate the processes shaping species distributions from both ecological and historical perspectives. Since the 1990s, biogeography has been advanced by the growth of phylogeography, with its basis in genetic analysis. New analytical tools, including geographic information systems (GIS), climate simulations, and ecological niche modeling (ENM), have brought further innovations. Combining simulations of past or future climates with ENM has allowed the estimation of past or future species distributions. Furthermore, combined analyses using GIS-related tools can reveal the processes of niche differentiation and speciation, and be used to reconstruct the migration histories of biological communities. In this review, we highlight useful analytical tools and data sources and explore their practical applications in biogeography and related fields. Next, we discuss the prospects of biogeography as a more integrated field, combining various data sources such as ancient DNA and the unprecedented amount of genetic data now available from next-generation sequencers.

  The Ecological Society of Japan, 2014, JAPANESE JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 64(3) (3), 183 - 199, Japanese

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• Embryonic Development of Carabus insulicola (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) with Special Reference to External Morphology and Tangible Evidence for the Subcoxal Theory

  Yukimasa Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Niikura, Yuuki Oosawa, Yasuoki Takami

  Dec. 2013, JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 274(12) (12), 1323 - 1352, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Colonization and Persistence of Urban Ant Populations as Revealed by Joint Estimation of Kinship and Population Genetic Parameters

  Junpei Yamamoto, Kei Uchida, Yasuoki Takami

  Sep. 2013, JOURNAL OF HEREDITY, 104(5) (5), 639 - 648, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Mechanical reproductive isolation via divergent genital morphology between Carabus insulicola and C-esakii with implications in species coexistence

  Kohei Kubota, Koji Miyazaki, Shiho Ebihara, Yasuoki Takami

  Last, Jan. 2013, POPULATION ECOLOGY, 55(1) (1), 35 - 42, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Genetic differences and phenotypic plasticity in body size between high- and low-altitude populations of the ground beetle Carabus tosanus

  Y. Tsuchiya, Y. Takami, Y. Okuzaki, T. Sota

  Sep. 2012, JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 25(9) (9), 1835 - 1842, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Mating Behavior and the Function of the Male Genital Spine in the Ground Beetle Carabus clathratus

  Yutaka Okuzaki, Yasuoki Takami, Yuzo Tsuchiya, Teiji Sota

  Jul. 2012, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 29(7) (7), 428 - 432, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• 同所的オオオサムシ亜属種間の体サイズ差の意味：資源分割よりも必要とされる生殖隔離

  奥崎 穰, 高見 泰興, 曽田 貞滋

  生態的に似た複数の近縁種が共存するには、種間の資源競争あるいは繁殖干渉が緩和される必要がある。オサムシ科オオオサムシ亜属は、成虫期に多食性の捕食者であるが、幼虫期はミミズ専食である。またオスは異種のメスに対しても交尾行動を示す。彼らは分布域の大部分で2-3種が共存しており、同所的に分布する種間では体サイズが異なっている。この種間の体サイズ差は、幼虫期に捕食可能なミミズのサイズに応じた資源分割をもたらし、資源競争を緩和するかもしれない。また成虫期に異種間の交尾行動を機械的に妨げる生殖隔離として、繁殖干渉を緩和するかもしれない。この2つの仮説を、京都に分布するオオオサムシ亜属4種(山間部の大、中、小型の3種、平野部の大型1種)を用いて検証した。まず、4種の幼虫(1-3齢)に様々なサイズのミミズを与えた。その結果、すべての幼虫は、ミミズのサイズに関わらず捕食行動を示した。またミミズのサイズ増加に伴う捕食失敗は、小型種の1齢幼虫期でのみ観察された。したがって、種間の体サイズ差は資源分割に有効ではないと考えられた。次に、4種の成虫で16通りの雌雄ペアを作り、交尾行動(交尾意欲、マウント、交尾器の挿入、精包形成)を観察した。その結果、体サイズ差が大きい異種ペアでは、交尾意欲があっても交尾器が届かず、挿入ができないペアが多かった。すなわち、種間の体サイズ差による交尾前生殖隔離が成立しており、このことが体サイズ差の大きい近縁種の同所的分布を可能にしていると考えられた。一方、体サイズ差が小さい異種ペア(山間部の大、中型種と平野部の大型種のペア)では、大半のペアで交尾器の挿入が行われ、精包形成まで達成するペアも見られた。このことから、体サイズの似た種が同所的に分布しないのは、資源競争ではなく繁殖干渉のためであることが示唆された。

  The Ecological Society of Japan, 2012, 日本生態学会誌, 62: 275-285(2) (2), 275 - 285, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• Is bumblebee foraging efficiency mediated by morphological correspondence to flowers?

  Dohzono I, Takami Y, Suzuki K

  Preference for certain types of flowers in bee species may be an adaptation for efficient foraging, and they often prefer flowers whose shape fits their mouthparts. However, it is unclear whether such flowers are truly beneficial for them. We address this issue by experimentally measuring foraging efficiency of bumblebees, the volume of sucrose solution consumed over handling time (μL/second), using long-tongued Bombus diversus Smith and short-tongued B. honshuensis Tkalcu that visit Clematis stans Siebold et Zuccarini. The corolla tube length of C. stans decreases during a flowering period, and male flowers are longer than female flowers. Long- and short-tongued bumblebees frequently visited longer and shorter flowers, respectively. Based on these preferences, we hypothesized that bumblebee foraging efficiency is higher when visiting flowers that show a good morphological fit between the proboscis and the corolla tube. Foraging efficiency of bumblebees was estimated using flowers for which nectar quality and quantity were controlled, in an experimental enclosure. We show that 1) the foraging efficiency of B. diversus was enhanced when visiting younger, longer flowers, and that 2) the foraging efficiency of B. honshuensis was higher when visiting shorter female flowers. This suggests that morphological correspondence between insects and flowers is important for insect foraging efficiency. However, in contradiction to our prediction, 3) short-tongued bumblebees B. honshuensis sucked nectar more efficiently when visiting younger, longer flowers, and 4) there was no significant difference in the foraging efficiency of B. diversus between flower sexes. These results suggest that morphological fit between the proboscis and the corolla tube is not a sole determinant of foraging efficiency. Bumblebees may adjust their sucking behavior in response to available rewards, and competition over rewards between bumblebee species might change visitation patterns in the wild. Thus, the determinants of foraging efficiency and visitation frequency for bee pollinators may be more complex than previously thought.

  {SAGE} Publications, 2011, International Journal of Insect Science, 3: 1-10, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• QTL for the species-specific male and female genital morphologies in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Masataka Sasabe, Yasuoki Takami, Teiji Sota

  Dec. 2010, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 19(23) (23), 5231 - 5239, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Phylogeny and the evolution of nesting behaviour in the tribe Ageniellini (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

  Akira Shimizu, Marius Wasbauer, Yasuoki Takami

  Last, Sep. 2010, ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 160(1) (1), 88 - 117, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Resource partitioning or reproductive isolation: The ecological role of body size differences among closely related species in sympatry

  Okuzaki Y, Takami Y, Sota T

  2010, Journal of Animal Ecololgy, 78: 383-392, 383 - 392, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Flower orientation enhances pollen transfer in bilaterally symmetrical flowers

  Atushi Ushimaru, Ikumi Dohzono, Yasuoki Takami, Fujio Hyodo

  Jul. 2009, OECOLOGIA, 160(4) (4), 667 - 674, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Historical divergence of mechanical isolation agents in the ground beetle Carabus arrowianus as revealed by phylogeographical analyses

  Nobuaki Nagata, Kohei Kubota, Yasuoki Takami, Teiji Sota

  Apr. 2009, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 18(7) (7), 1408 - 1421, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• The genus Pamborus Latreille (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Sloane collection and its importance for current taxonomy

  Takami Y, Weir TA

  2009, Australian Entomologist, 36: 13-20, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Dual function of seminal substances for mate guarding in a ground beetle

  Yasuoki Takami, Masataka Sasabe, Nobuaki Nagata, Teiji Sota

  Nov. 2008, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, 19(6) (6), 1173 - 1178, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• 大都市におけるモンシロチョウとスジグロシロチョウの分布の変遷I.東京都の場合

  小汐 千春, 石井 実, 藤井 恒, 倉地 正, 高見 泰興, 日高 敏隆

  We investigated long-term changes in the distribution of two pierid butterflies, Artogeia rapae (=Pieris rapae) and A. melete (=P. melete) in Tokyo, using questionnaire survey, literature searching and field observations. From the 1950s to the 1960s, A. rapae was observed at many sites across Tokyo. From the 1970s, observation records of A. melete increased and A. melete became common even in the urban area of Tokyo during the 1980s. From the 1990s, however, observation records of A. melete decreased and those of A. rapae increased again. These changes of distribution of A. rapae and A. melete were evident not only in the urban area, in 23 wards, but also in rural areas.

  THE LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 2008, 蝶と蛾, 59: 1-17(1) (1), 1 - 17, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Asymmetry in reproductive isolation and its effect on directional mitochondrial introgression in the parapatric ground beetles Carabus yamato and C-albrechti

  Yasuoki Takami, Nobuaki Nagata, Masataka Sasabe, Teiji Sota

  Oct. 2007, POPULATION ECOLOGY, 49(4) (4), 337 - 346, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Sperm competition promotes diversity of sperm bundles in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Yasuoki Takami, Teiji Sota

  Jul. 2007, NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, 94(7) (7), 543 - 550, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Rapid diversification of male genitalia and mating strategies in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  Y. Takami, T. Sota

  Jul. 2007, JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 20(4) (4), 1385 - 1395, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• The genetic basis of interspecific differences in genital morphology of closely related carabid beetles

  M. Sasabe, Y. Takami, T. Sota

  Jun. 2007, HEREDITY, 98(6) (6), 385 - 391, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Spermatophore displacement and male fertilization success in the ground beetle Carabus insulicola

  Yasuoki Takami

  May 2007, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, 18(3) (3), 628 - 634, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Comparative phylogeography of three Leptocarabus ground beetle species in South Korea, based on the mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes

  Ai-Bing Zhang, Kohei Kubota, Yasuoki Takami, Jung-Lark Kim, Jong-Kuk Kim, Teiji Sota

  Sep. 2006, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 23(9) (9), 745 - 754, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Four new species of Australian Pamborus Latreille (Coleoptera, Carabidae) carabid beetles

  Takami Y, Sota T

  2006, Australian Journal of Entomology, 45: 44-54, 44 - 54, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Species status and phylogeography of two closely related Coptolabrus species (Coleoptera : Carabidae) in South Korea inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences

  AB Zhang, K Kubota, Y Takami, JL Kim, JK Kim, T Sota

  Oct. 2005, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 14(12) (12), 3823 - 3841, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Morphological, genetic and behavioural analyses of a hybrid zone between the ground beetles Carabus lewisianus and C albrechti (Coleoptera, Carabidae): asymmetrical introgression caused by movement of the zone?

  Y Takami, H Suzuki

  Sep. 2005, BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 86(1) (1), 79 - 94, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Phylogeny and character evolution of endemic Australian carabid beetles of the genus Pamborus based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences

  T Sota, Y Takami, GB Monteith, BP Moore

  Aug. 2005, MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 36(2) (2), 391 - 404, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Parasitism of Carabus kimurai (Ishikawa) (Coleoptera : Carabidae) by the endoparasitic fly Zaira cinerea fallen (Diptera : Tachinidae) and its effect on male reproductive capability

  Y Takami

  Jun. 2004, COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN, 58(2) (2), 271 - 272, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Genetic diversity and structure of urban populations of Pieris butterflies assessed using amplified fragment length polymorphism

  Y Takami, C Koshio, M Ishii, H Fujii, T Hidaka, Shimizu, I

  Feb. 2004, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 13(2) (2), 245 - 258, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Experimental analysis of the effect of genital morphology on insemination success in the ground beetle Carabus insulicola (Coleoptera Carabidae)

  Y Takami

  Apr. 2003, ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 15(1) (1), 51 - 61, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Mating behavior, insemination and sperm transfer in the ground beetle Carabus insulicola

  Y Takami

  Sep. 2002, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 19(9) (9), 1067 - 1073, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• オサムシ類の体サイズの地理的変異:気候適応と種間相互作用がもたらすパターン

  曽田 貞滋, 高見 泰興, 久保田 耕平, 石川 良輔

  The geographic variation in body size of an insect species may reflect not only differential adaptation to local climatic conditions but also evolutionary consequences of interaction with closely related species. Thus, both intra- and interspecific body size variations need to be analyzed to understand evolutionary significance of geographic pattern of body size variation in a group of closely related species. Here, we introduce geographic patterns of intra- and interspecific body size variation in two groups of carabid beetles in Japan, Leptocarabus and Ohomopterus (the subtribe Carabina, Carabidae) and discuss the possible factors leading to the observed patterns. Body size of a species generally decreases with decreasing warmth of the habitat (the converse of the Bergmann's rule). However, coexisting related species at sympatric zones show separation in body size, leading to deviation from overall clinal trend of body size variation within species. Probably, interspecific interaction through reproductive interference at the secondary contacts has played a role in determining the combination of species that could coexist or affected the body size differentiation per se.

  The Entomological Society of Japan, 2002, Japanese Journal of Entomology (New Series), 5: 88-97(3) (3), 88 - 97, Japanese

  [Refereed]


• Microsatellite DNA markers for the ground beetle Carabus insulicola

  Y Takami, S Katada

  Sep. 2001, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY NOTES, 1(3) (3), 128 - 130, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Interspecific body size differentiation in species assemblages of the carabid subgenus Ohomopterus in Japan

  T Sota, Y Takami, K Kubota, M Ujiie, R Ishikawa

  Dec. 2000, POPULATION ECOLOGY, 42(3) (3), 279 - 291, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Phylogeny of the subgenus Ohomopterus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, genus Carabus): A morphological aspect

  Takami Y

  2000, Tokyo Metropolitan University Bulletin of Natural History, 4: 1-32, 1 - 32, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Geographic variation in body size of some Japanese Leptocarabus species (Coleoptera, Carabidae): The "toppled-domino pattern" in species along a geographic cline

  Sota T, Takami Y, Kubota K, Ishikawa R

  2000, Entomological Science, 3: 309-320, 309 - 320, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Subspeciation and distribution pattern of Carabus albrechti Morawitz in Japan (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

  Takami Y, Ishikawa R

  1997, Tokyo Metropolitan University Bulletin of Natural History, 3: 55-99, 55 - 99, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• New subspecies of Carabus albrechti Morawitz (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Japan

  Ishikawa R, Takami Y

  Four new subspecies of Carabus (Ohomopterus) albrechti are described : C. a. hidakanus nov. and C. a. itoi nov. from Hokkaido, and C. a. echigo nov. and C. a. awashimae nov. from the Japan Sea side of central Honshu and Awashima Is., respectively.

  Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 1996, Species Diversity, 1: 39-48(1) (1), 39 - 48, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

• オサムシの交尾器形態の形質置換と種分化

  夏天, 高見泰興

  Last, Mar. 2025, 昆虫と自然, 60(4) (4), 15 - 19

  [Invited]

  Introduction scientific journal


• ＜書評＞マーリーン・ズック，リー・W・シモンズ 著，沼田英治 監訳，遠藤淳 訳（2023）「なぜオスとメスは違うのか 性淘汰の科学」大修館書店

  高見泰興

  Lead, Mar. 2024, 昆虫（ニューシリーズ）, 27(1) (1), 50 - 51

  [Refereed]

  Book review


• 昆虫の種分化研究の現状と今後の展開−自然史とゲノミクスが出会う時

  TAKAMI YASUOKI

  Lead, 2017, 昆虫と自然, 52(13) (13), 30 - 32, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Introduction commerce magazine


• 都市環境と分子生態学を通して見るシロチョウの分布と移動

  TAKAMI YASUOKI

  Lead, ニューサイエンス社, 2016, 昆虫と自然, 51(12) (12), 6 - 10, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Introduction commerce magazine


• オサムシの交尾器はなぜ多様なのか-性淘汰と遺伝的基盤

  高見 泰興

  Lead, ニューサイエンス社, 2011, 昆虫と自然, 46 (3): 9-13(3) (3), 9 - 13, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Introduction scientific journal


• オオオサムシ亜属の交尾のしくみ

  高見 泰興

  2011, 昆虫と自然, 46 (3): 13-14, Japanese

  Introduction scientific journal


• 都市環境におけるモンシロチョウとスジグロチョウの集団遺伝学

  高見 泰興, 清水 勇

  2005, Center for Ecological Research News, 87: 17-19, 17 - 19, Japanese

  Introduction scientific journal


• 「錠と鍵」の機能

  高見 泰興

  2005, 歩く宝石オサムシ - 飛ばない昆虫のふしぎ発見, Pp. 76-77, Japanese

  Introduction scientific journal


• オサムシを分ける錠と鍵

  高見 泰興, 石川 良輔

  2005, 歩く宝石オサムシ - 飛ばない昆虫のふしぎ発見, Pp. 72-75, Japanese

  Introduction scientific journal


• 性選択から見たオサムシ交尾器の機能と進化

  高見 泰興

  Lead, ニュ-・サイエンス社, 2001, 昆虫と自然, 36 (2): 24-28(2) (2), 24 - 28, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Introduction scientific journal


• ホソアカガネオサムシの生活史

  船越 崇嗣, 高見 泰興, 氏家 昌行, 曽田 貞滋

  ニュ-・サイエンス社, 1998, 昆虫と自然, 33 (9): 38-41(9) (9), 38 - 43, Japanese

• 新オサムシ学 : 生態から進化まで

  曽田貞滋,長太伸章,高見泰興,雀部正毅,奥崎穣,小沼順二

  Contributor, 北隆館, 2013, Japanese, ISBN: 9784832607286

• Behavioral response to defensive secretions in ground beetles

  新堂史佳, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第72回全国大会, Mar. 2025

  Poster presentation


• Reproductive character displacement in male genital shape and elasticity in Carabus maiyasanus

  前村土温, 井上真理, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第72回全国大会, Mar. 2025

  Poster presentation


• Conspecific mate preference and interspecific hybridization between Carabus procerulus and C. kumagaii

  間嶋隆善, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第72回全国大会, Mar. 2025

  Poster presentation


• Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of male genital size in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  古本知奈美, 寺田夏蓮, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第72回全国大会, Mar. 2025

  Poster presentation


• オオオサムシ亜属における交尾器サイズの多様化に関わる発生過程とその組織学的背景

  古本知奈美, 寺田夏蓮, 高見泰興

  第26回日本進化学会神奈川大会, Aug. 2024

  Poster presentation


• 交尾器形態の生殖的形質置換：壊れにくく異種を識別しやすい柔らかい雄交尾器の進化

  西村太良, 寺田夏蓮, 井上真理, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第71回全国大会, Mar. 2024

  Poster presentation


• オオオサムシ亜属における交尾器の巨大化に関わる進化発生学的要因

  古本知奈美, 寺田夏蓮, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第71回全国大会, Mar. 2024

  Poster presentation


• 共食いされなかった雄の再交尾は配偶者防衛として機能するのか

  西野大翔, 高見泰興

  日本動物行動学会第42回大会, Nov. 2023

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリにおける栄養状態と交尾履歴が性的共食いにおよぼす影響

  黒田一樹, 高見泰興

  日本動物行動学会第42回大会, Nov. 2023

  Poster presentation


• 昆虫の捕脚形態における収斂進化の定量的解析

  宮地ひかる, 高見泰興

  第70回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2023

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリにおける性的共食いに伴う交尾の延長と配偶者防衛の強化

  西野大翔, 高見泰興

  第70回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2023

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリにおける摂食量と肥満度が性的共食いに及ぼす影響

  黒田一樹, 高見泰興

  第70回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2023

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリにおける摂食量と肥満度が性的共食いにおよぼす影響

  黒田一樹, 高見泰興

  日本動物行動学会第41回大会, Nov. 2022, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• チョウセンカマキリにおける性的共食いに伴う交尾の延長と配偶者防衛の強化

  西野大翔, 高見泰興

  日本動物行動学会第41回大会, Nov. 2022, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• Genital diverisification via sexual conflict and interspecific interaction

  高見泰興

  日本生態学会第69回全国大会 自由集会「一寸の虫にもラブの魂 IV」, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Nutritional benefit of sexual cannibalism in female praying mantid

  禿啓佑, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第69回全国大会, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Evaluation of sexual selection via sperm competition on male genitalia in Tenodera angustipennis

  森優美子, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第69回全国大会, Mar. 2022

  Poster presentation


• Change in correlation between body parts in response to the evolution of huge male genitalia

  寺田夏蓮, 高橋颯吾, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第69回全国大会, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Morphological characteristics in the evolution of raptorial legs in insects

  宮地ひかる, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第69回全国大会, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Evolution of soft male genitalia in association with reproductive character displacement

  西村太良, 高見泰興, 井上真理

  日本生態学会第69回全国大会, Mar. 2022, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Impact of sexually antagonistic genital morphologies on wild population demography and range expansion

  Yasuoki Takami

  日本進化学会第23回大会シンポジウム, Aug. 2021

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 種特異的な交尾器部位の極端な大型化に関わる発生過程

  寺田夏蓮, 西村太良, 平山明宏, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第68回大会, Mar. 2021

  Poster presentation


• マヤサンオサムシの交尾器形態にはたらく強化淘汰の検出

  西村太良, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第68回大会, Mar. 2021

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリのメスにおける性的共食いの栄養的利益

  禿啓佑, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第68回大会, Mar. 2021

  Poster presentation


• 性的共食いを受けた雄の交尾行動調節とその適応的意義

  長田祐基, 高見泰興

  日本生態学会第68回大会, Mar. 2021

  Poster presentation


• マヤサンオサムシの交尾器形態にはたらく強化淘汰 の検出

  西村 太良, 高見 泰興

  第67回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2020, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 種特異的な交尾器部位の極端な大型化に関わる発生過程

  寺田 夏蓮, 平山 明宏, 高見 泰興

  第67回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2020, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリのメスにおける性的共食いの栄養的利益

  禿 啓佑, 高見 泰興

  第67回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2020, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• 雄カマキリの交尾行動に対する性的共食いの影響

  長田 祐基, 高見 泰興

  第67回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2020, Japanese

  Poster presentation


• Causes and consequences of genital diversification in Ohomopterus ground beetles

  TAKAMI Yasuoki

  Genital Evolution: genes, function and diversification, 35th the society of population ecology meeting, Sep. 2019, English, International conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 交尾器形態の形質置換と交雑コスト回避の検証

  NISHIMURA Taira, 夏天, 長太伸章, 曽田貞滋, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2019, Japanese, 神戸コンベンションセンター, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 寄主植物形質に応じた植食性昆虫の防衛形態の進化

  SHINOHARA Tadashi, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2019, Japanese, 神戸コンベンションセンター, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• マヤサンオサムシの地理的変異と初期種分化 種間相互作用による種分化仮説の検証

  夏天, NISHIMURA Taira, 長太伸章, 曽田貞滋, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2019, Japanese, 神戸コンベンションセンター, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• マイクロCTを用いた多様な交尾器形態の発生 過程の解明

  TERADA Karen, HIRAYAMA Akihiro, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2019, Japanese, 神戸コンベンションセンター, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• フタイロカミキリモドキにおける性的二型 形質の緯度クラインと共進化

  SATOMI Daisuke, 小汐千春, 立田晴記, 工藤慎一, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2019, Japanese, 神戸コンベンションセンター, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリの繁殖フェノロジーと雌の 交尾頻度の推定

  長田 祐基, TAKAMI YASUOKI

  The 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2019, Japanese, 神戸コンベンションセンター, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 生態と進化の間に介在する性的対立とオサムシの交尾器

  TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本蜘蛛学会第50回大会, Aug. 2018, Japanese, 広島大学, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 交尾器形態の形質置換と交雑コスト回避の検証

  NISHIMURA Taira, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本進化学会第20回大会, Aug. 2018, Japanese, 東京大学, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• マイクロCTを用いた多様な交尾器形態の発生過程の解明

  TERADA Karen, HIRAYAMA Akihiro, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本進化学会第20回大会, Aug. 2018, Japanese, 東京大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 物理的防衛と隠蔽効果のトレードオフによる昆虫の形態多様化

  SHINOHARA Tadashi, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• Genetic structure of common shrimp in Lake Biwa related to the life history polymorphism

  WU Qianqian, TAKAMI Yasuoki, MINAMOTO Toshifumi

  The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 発達したオス後脚は性的対立によって進化したのか:個体群入れ替え配偶実験による検証

  SATOMI Daisuke, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 局所環境変動に対する種の応答に基づく群集変化予測

  PARK Yong Hwan, KIM Jong Kuk, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• マヤサンオサムシの交尾器形態の地理的変異は生殖的形質置換か？：雌雄両面からの検証

  NISHIMURA Taira, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• マイクロCTを用いた多様な交尾器形態の発生過程の解明

  TERADA Karen, HIRAYAMA Akihiro, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• カマキリを利用するハリガネムシの性依存的寄生戦略

  KURODA Takahiro, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• 頭部神経による抑制支配からの解放が雄カマキリの適応的な交尾行動調節をもたらす

  INOUE Yoshitaka, WATANABE Saki, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第64回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2017, Japanese, 早稲田大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 昆虫の多様な防御形態：捕食様式の違いに対応したジェネラリスト形態とスペシャリスト形態の進化

  SHINOHARA Tadashi, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第64回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2017, Japanese, 早稲田大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 局所環境の変化による歩行虫群集の時間的変化と広域の群集評価へのインパクト

  PARK Yong Hwan, KIM Jong Kuk, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第64回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2017, Japanese, 早稲田大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• マヤサンオサムシの交尾器形態の地理的変異は生殖的形質置換か？：交雑のコストとコスト回避の可能性

  NISHIMURA Taira, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第64回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2017, Japanese, 早稲田大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリに対するハリガネムシの寄生コストと形態改変

  KURODA Takahiro, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第64回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2017, Japanese, 早稲田大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• Spatio-temporal distribution of common prawn in Lake Biwa clarified by eDNA analysis

  WU Qianqian, ISHIKAWA Toshiyuki, TSUJI Satsuki, YAMANAKA Hiroki, TAKAMI Yasuoki, MINAMOTO Toshifumi

  The 64th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2017, Japanese, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• Detecting divergent sexual selection operating upon divergent genital morphologies

  TAKAMI Yasuoki, TAKAHASHI Sogo

  第25回国際昆虫学会議, Sep. 2016, English, Orlando, International conference

  Oral presentation


• 対捕食者適応による昆虫の外部形態の進化：捕食パターンの違いによる影響の検証

  SHINOHARA Tadashi, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本生態学会第63回大会, Mar. 2016, Japanese, 東北大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 多様な交尾器形態にはたらく分化性淘汰の検出：距離測定法と幾何学的形態測定学法の違いと相補性

  TAKAMI Yasuoki, TAKAHASHI Sogo

  日本生態学会第63回大会, Mar. 2016, Japanese, 東北大学, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 韓国白頭大幹における環境変動に応じた歩行虫群集の変化

  PARK Yong Hwan, JANG Tae Woong, KIM Jong Kuk, CHAE Hee Mun, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本生態学会第63回大会, Mar. 2016, Japanese, 東北大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• ハリガネムシに寄生されたカマキリの繁殖行動

  KURODA Takahiro, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本生態学会第63回大会, Mar. 2016, Japanese, 東北大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• オサムシの精子競争と多型的な集合精子の謎

  TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本生態学会第63回大会, Mar. 2016, Japanese, 東北大学, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Sexual conflict mediates mating behavior of a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid

  TAKAMI Yasuoki, MORIMOTO Kotaro, KADOI Mika

  第40回日本比較内分泌学会大会・日本比較生理生化学会第37回大会合同大会, Dec. 2015, Japanese, 広島大学, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 狩蜂の獲物サイズ選好性：巣穴サイズによる制限の可能性

  SHINOHARA Tadashi, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第62回日本生態学会大会, May 2015, Japanese, 鹿児島大学, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• 交尾器形態の多様化をもたらす性淘汰の検出

  TAKAHASHI Sogo, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第62回日本生態学会大会, May 2015, Japanese, 鹿児島大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 韓国五台山における局所環境変動に応じた歩行虫群集の変化

  PARK Yong Hwan, KIM Jong Kuk, CHAE Hee Mun, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第62回日本生態学会大会, May 2015, Japanese, 鹿児島大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリの性的共食い：リスクアセスメントと終末投資

  TAKAMI Yasuoki, MORIMOTO Kotaro, KADOI Mika

  動物行動学会第33回大会, Nov. 2014, Japanese, 長崎大学, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• 性的対立の人口学的帰結：雌雄交尾器の不均衡が集団サイズを低下させる

  TAKAMI Yasuoki, FUKUHARA Tomohiko, YOKOYAMA Jun, KAWATA Masakado

  日本進化学会第16回大阪大会, Aug. 2014, Japanese, 高槻現代劇場, Domestic conference

  Invited oral presentation


• 性的対立の人口学的帰結：雌雄交尾器の不均衡が集団サイズを低下させる

  TAKAMI Yasuoki, FUKUHARA Tomohiko, YOKOYAMA Jun, KAWATA Masakado

  第61回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2014, Japanese, 広島大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• カメノコハムシ亜科の分子系統と特異な外部形態の起源

  SHINOHARA Tadashi, YAMASHIRO Tadashi, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  第61回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2014, Japanese, 広島大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 多様な交尾戦略を持つオオオサムシ亜属の雄の精子投資調節

  MARUYAMA Wataru, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本動物行動学会第32回大会, Nov. 2013, Japanese, 広島大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• クロナガオサムシの再交尾抑制をもたらす精液物質は濃すぎると効かない

  TAKAMI Yasuoki, HAYASHI Nao

  日本動物行動学会第32回大会, Nov. 2013, Japanese, 広島大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• オオオサムシ亜属の雌雄交尾器形態変異に基づく進化仮説の検証

  TAKAHASHI Sogo, TAKAMI Yasuoki

  日本動物行動学会第32回大会, Nov. 2013, Japanese, 広島大学, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• 特異な形態を持つカメノコハムシ亜科の分子系統と形態進化プロセス

  SHINOHARA TADASHI, YAMASHIRO TADASHI, TAKAMI YASUOKI

  第60回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2013, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリの性的共食いによる交尾時間延長が精子競争に与える影響

  MORIMOTO KOTARO, TAKAMI YASUOKI

  第60回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2013, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• イワワキオサムシにおける雄の戦略的射精と父性獲得

  MARUYAMA WATARU, TAKAMI YASUOKI

  第60回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2013, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• チョウセンカマキリの性的共食いに伴う交尾時間延長の適応的意義

  MORIMOTO KOTARO, TAKAMI YASUOKI

  日本動物行動学会第31回大会, Nov. 2012, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• イワワキオサムシにおける雌の交尾経験に対応した雄の投資調節

  MARUYAMA WATARU, TAKAMI YASUOKI

  日本動物行動学会第31回大会, Nov. 2012, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• ギンケハラボソコマユバチMeteorus pulchricornisの産雌性単為生殖メカニズムの解明

  筒井 容子, 三浦 一芸, 濱口 京子, TAKAMI YASUOKI, MAETO KAORU

  第56回日本応用動物昆虫学会大会, Mar. 2012, Japanese, 近畿大学農学部、奈良市, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation

• 南アルプス深南部におけるオサムシの三つどもえ交雑帯の実態解明

  高見泰興, 氏家昌行, 久保田耕平, 石川良輔

  南アルプス学会, Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2025, Principal investigator


• 比較ゲノミクスと進化発生学から紐解く機械的生殖隔離の強化と種分化

  高見 泰興, 小笠原 道生

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(B), 基盤研究(B), 神戸大学, 01 Apr. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2024

  本研究は，交雑に起因する交尾器形態の分化と，それに伴う種分化の過程を検証する．交尾器形態の違いが機械的生殖隔離をもたらすオオオサムシ類について，これまで進められてきた研究をさらに発展させ，種分化過程における交尾器形態とゲノムの分化機構と，形態の遺伝発生学的基盤を明らかにすることを目的とする. （1）種間交雑に伴う形態とゲノムの分化機構の解明：分布を接する近縁種を対象に，行動実験によって交尾器形態の形質置換をもたらした自然淘汰を定量する．集団ゲノミクス解析により，自然淘汰と遺伝子流動の影響下にあるゲノムの分化動態を解明する．これまで，他種と接触し交尾器形態に形質置換が見られる複数の個体群において，より種間差の大きい形態変異が種間交尾のコスト（交尾器の損傷，交尾時間のロス）を低減しうるという自然淘汰を検出した．また，比較ゲノム解析のためのサンプリングを行い，ゲノムシーケンスデータを蓄積した． （2）遺伝発生学的基盤の解明：マイクロCTとin situ hybridizationを用いた形態形成・遺伝子発現解析により，交尾器形態の発生過程と，形態の種間差に関わる遺伝的背景を解明する．これまで，最も巨大化した交尾器を持つドウキョウオサムシの発生過程サンプルを取得し，マイクロCTによる形態の観察と測定を進めている．また，in situ hybridizationの実験系を構築するため，ポジティブコントロールのアクチン遺伝子を使って条件設定を進めつつある．


• 性的形質の緯度クラインをもたらす性淘汰の環境依存性の解明

  高見 泰興

  科学研究費補助金／基盤研究(B), Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2021, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• Global dispersal and diversification in beetles with flight polymorphisms

  Sota Teiji

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Kyoto University, 01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2020

  To clarify the role of the loss of flight ability in the species diversification process of ground-living beetles in the world, molecular phylogeographic analyses were performed for three groups with flight polymorphisms, Cicindelidae, Carabinae, and Silphinae. These groups were estimated to have diverged in the Jurassic to Cretaceous, and in all of them, basal lineages with deep branching were distributed in the lands of Gondwana origin such as Africa, South America, and Australia, and their species diversity were generally low. Loss of flight ability is observed in most groups of Carabinae, in the basal groups and some of the derived groups in Cicindelidae, and only in the derived groups of Silphinae. The flightlessness was related to low species diversity in the basal lineages of Cicindelidea, whereas it was related to increased species diversity in Carabinae and Silphinae.


• 機械的生殖隔離による種分化：交尾器形態分化の要因と帰結

  高見 泰興

  科学研究費補助金／基盤研究(B), Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2020, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• Evolutionary factors in the emergence of geographic variations in the sexually selected traits

  Koshio Chiharu, KUDO Shin-ichi, SATOMI Daisuke

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Naruto University of Education, 01 Apr. 2016 - 31 Mar. 2019

  In the bicolored false blister beetles Oedemera sexualis (Coleoptera, Oedemeridae), males possess swollen femora of the hind legs and use their hind legs to control resistant females during their mating attempts. Male hind femora show a latitudinal cline, becoming stouter at lower latitudes. However, some populations on the Amami Islands constitute significant outliers from the cline with exceptionally narrow male hind femora. We conducted mating experiments and detected different selection pressures on male morphologies among different populations; males with larger hind legs had higher mating success in the Naruto and Yonaguni populations, whereas males with slender hind legs were more successful in the Amami population. In the phylogenetic analysis, it has been revealed that all individuals including Amami population possessing thin femurs had directly derived from the lineages of thick femurs.


• Interdisciplinary research on ecosystem valuation with reference to quality of life

  Sato Masayuki, TAKAMI Yasuoki, MINAMOT Toshifumi, ITO Masayuki

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Kobe University, 01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2018

  This research investigated ecosystem valuation around Mt. Rokko, which is located near Kobe, a major city in Japan. Special attention was paid to how differences in lifestyle and experiences of valuators influence willingness to pay. It was found that certain experiences had a significant effect on valuation of ecosystem services. From psychological analysis, it was also found that psychological measure offered the different results from welfare measure. These findings suggest the importance of considering the diversity of valuators, and it also warns the extinction of experience with nature under on going urbanization for urban ecosystem conservation. This research concludes that measurement approach, recognition process, urbanization and lifestyle change are important in ecosystem service valuation.


• Ecological differentiation in plants via character displacement avoiding reproductive interference

  Dohzono Ikumi

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Tokyo Gakugei University, 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2017

  We analysed reproductive isolation, reproductive interference, and character displacement in Isodon umrosus with the short corolla and I. effusus with the long corolla. Artificial pollination between two species revealed that seed production and seed germination were very low, suggesting that hybridization between these two species is maladaptive. Seed production of wild plants in sympatric population was lower than that in allopatric population, indicating that the reproductive interference between the species occur in the field. In a sympatric site (Kanoto-iwa), flowering phenology differed between the species, which may play a role in avoiding their reproductive interference. The molecular phylogenetic analysis based on nuclear DNA sequences supported the previous taxonomic treatment of the genus at the species level.


• Origin of the primitively social behavior in spider wasps: characteristics of the female social behavior and their evolutionary significance

  Shimizu Akira, YOSHIMURA JIN

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Tokyo Metropolitan University, 01 Apr. 2013 - 31 Mar. 2017

  In order to clarify the evolutionary origin of primitively social behavior in Pompilidae, female nesting and social behaviors of Machaerothrix tsushimensis were investigated. The results of the investigations are that two females each may make and provision their own cell(s) in a composite nest (communal) and that some of the females shift their own nests with time. Moreover, genetic differentiation between individuals at two nesting sites (about 100 m apart from each other) was analyzed. The results of the analyses are that 1) females are genetically much differentiated between the nesting sites; and 2) males are not so much differentiated between them. Although males may facilitate genetic interchange between the sites, genetic similarity of individuals at a site seems to be great. There is a possibility that the formation of a kin group associated with settled life or low migratory activity concerns the evolution and maintenance of primitive sociality in this species.


• 種分化関連ゲノム領域に作用する自然淘汰の解析

  高見 泰興

  科学研究費補助金／基盤研究(C), Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• Speciation by genital evolution: sexual selection and genes producing species differences

  SOTA Teiji, TAKAMI Yasuoki, OKUZAKI Yutaka, FUJIMAKI Kotaro, FUJISAWA Tomochika, NISHIMURA Osamu, YAZAWA Shigenobu, TAKAHASHI Tetsumi, NAGATA Nobuaki, TAKAHASHI Sogo, MARUYAMA Wataru

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kyoto University, 01 Apr. 2011 - 31 Mar. 2014

  This study aimed to reveal sexual selection for exaggerated genital morphology and genes related to species-specific genital morphology in the ground beetle group Ohomopterus, which exhibited a marked interspecific divergence in shape and size in male and female genitalia. In an experiment to study selection on genital size using within-species variations, matching in genital sizes between the sexes was favored for sperm competition, and it was suggested that sexual conflict or reproductive interference with another species needs to be considered for an explanation of exaggeration of genital morphology. In a comparison of transcriptomes between two sister species with marked differences in genital morphology, some genes with differential expressions between the species were found, but these were unlikely to be the genes affecting species-specific genital morphology.


• Diversity, adaptation and coevolution in snail-feeding carabid beetles and land snails

  SOTA Teiji, CHIBA Satoshi, TAKAMI Yasuoki, MORII Yuta, HAYASHI Masakazu, LIANG Hongbin, KARAGYAN Gayane, AKIYAMA Kazutoshi, KIM Jung-lark)

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kyoto University, 01 Apr. 2011 - 31 Mar. 2014

  To understand how the land snail fauna is related with the divergence of morphology related to snail feeding (macrocephalism vs. stenocephalism) in the subtribe Carabina, we conducted field studies in China, Korea, Armenia, and Morocco. In the inland region of China, especially, diverse snail-feeding Carabina species and land snails occur. Macrocephalic Carabina species occur in habitats harboring small-sized bradybaenid snails abundantly. In habitats where both macro- and stenocephalic Carabina species occur, the shell morphology of bradybaenid snails was markedly diversified, suggesting an adaptive radiation due to strong predation pressure from snail-feeding predators.


• Origin of the primitively social behavior in Pompilidae : characteristics of the male matin g behavior and their evolutionary significance

  SHIMIZU Akira, TAKAMI Yasuoki, YOSHIMURA Jin

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2009 - 2011

  In order to elucidate the evolutionary origin of primitively social behavior in Pompilidae, male mating behavior of Machaerothrix tsushimensis and relatedness of its individuals at the same nesting site were investigated. As a result, it was found that the males rested for a long time(400 minutes, for example) near the entrances of the nests, attempting to copulate with the females and that multiple females nesting at the same site had the same father. These suggest that the copulation oligopoly by a few males occurs in this species. As a result of measuring several morphological characters of Macromeris violacea, positive allometry was found between the body length(length of forewing marginal cell) and the leg(femur) thickness only in the male, and thus the thick male femur is presumed to be a character that enables copulation monopoly by one or a few males on the nest.


• Parapatric speciation along altitudinal gradients

  SOTA Teiji

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kyoto University, 2008 - 2010

  We aimed to test whether ecological speciation could result from differentiation of body size between populations adapted to different altitudinal conditions, focusing on the body size variation among Carabus (Ohomopterus) tosanus populations at different altitudes. Molecular phylogenetic analyses showed that C. tosanus was a monophyletic group diverged within Shikoku and that there were only small genetic divergence among populations at different altitudes, despite that body size was clearly smaller at elevations of about 1000 m or higher. Field study indicated that the smaller body sizes at higher altitudes was related to adaptive responses to temperature and food (earthworms) conditions which were limited at higher altitudes. Laboratory experiments showed that the differences in body length between populations from different altitudes were largely determined by genetic differences with a small effect of plastic responses to temperature. The analysis of heritability revealed that the difference between populations was attributable to maternal inheritance (probably due to genes on X chromosome). Mating experiments showed that the body length difference caused a mechanical reproductive isolation, suggesting that the body size differentiation can result in speciation.


• 交雑帯のゲノムスキャンによる種分化遺伝子の特定

  高見 泰興

  科学研究費補助金／若手研究(B), 2010, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• 生殖隔離形質の種間差に関与するゲノム領域の探索

  高見 泰興

  科学研究費補助金／若手研究(B), 2008, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• 雌雄交尾器における錠と鍵的対応の進化機構

  高見 泰興

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 特別研究員奨励費, 特別研究員奨励費, 京都大学, 2003 - 2005

  雌雄交尾器に見られる錠と鍵的対応の進化過程を解明するため,甲虫目オサムシ科の各種を用いて,以下の研究を行った. 1)交尾器形態と交尾行動の相関した進化 オオオサムシ亜属に特徴的な交尾片は,精子競争における精包の掻き出しに機能している可能性がある.この仮説から予測される交尾片サイズと精包サイズの相関した進化を,22分類群の種間比較解析により検討した.系統的な制約をコントロールするため,核遺伝子5遺伝子座を元にした最尤系統樹を用いて,独立な対比に基づく解析を行った.結果,1)交尾片と精包のサイズは体サイズと比較してそれぞれ3倍および等倍率で進化している;2)交尾片と精包のサイズは正に相関する;3)交尾片と交尾時間は負に相関する,ことが明らかとなった.(論文投稿中) 2)精子競争における交尾器の機能 オサムシ類の精子競争における精包の掻き出し仮説を検証するため,多回交尾下での精包分布と父性の変化を調べた。マイクロサテライト遺伝子を用いた父性解析の結果,80%の確率で精包の掻き出しが起こり,それは掻き出した雄の父性の獲得に寄与していることが明らかとなった(論文投稿中). 3)二型的精子束の進化 精子競争によって生じる性淘汰は,交尾器形態以外にも働き,顕著な形質進化を引き起こし得る.オオオサムシ類で発見された二型的精子束が精子競争による性淘汰の影響を受けているかを明らかにするため,種間比較解析により,交尾器形態や交尾行動との相関した進化の検出を試みた.結果,大小の精子束はそれぞれ著しい多様化を示し,大きな精子束のサイズは交尾片長,交尾後保護時間と正に相関した.これは,著しい精包掻き出しが生じる状況で,大きな精子束が有利になるような性淘汰が働いたことを示唆する(論文準備中).


• 昆虫の種分化における交尾器の錠と鍵的構造の進化的意義

  高見 泰興

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 特別研究員奨励費, 特別研究員奨励費, 東京都立大学, 1999 - 2000