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2024
  • Sakamoto,F., S. Kanamori, L. M. Díaz, A. Cádiz, Y. Ishii, K. Yamaguchi, S. Shigenobu, T. Nakayama, T. Makino, M. Kawata (2024)Detection of evolutionary conserved and accelerated genomic regions related to adaptation to thermal niches in Anolis lizards. Ecology and Evolution  14:e11117. [Open Access]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   2023         
  •   Tamagawa, K., T. Sunobe, T. Makino and M. Kawata (2023) Transcriptomic signatures associated with underlying rapid changes in the early phase brain of bi-directional sex change in Trimma okinawae. Royal Society Open Science, 10:231450. [Open Access]                                                                                                   
  • Wakamiya, T., T. Kamioka,,  Y. Ishii, J. Takahashi, R. T. Maeda, M. Kawata  (2023) Genetic differentiation and local adaptation of the Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica. Ecology and Evolution  13:e10573. [Open Access]                                                                                                                             
  •   Y. Ishii, H.,Ishii T. Kuroha, R. Yokoyama, R. Deguchi, K. Nishitani, J. Minagawa, M. Kawata, S. Takahashi and S. Maruyama (2023) Environmental pH signals the release of monosaccharides from cell wall in coral symbiotic alga . eLife  12:e80628 (VoR:Accepted) [Open Access][Insight                                                                                                                                                                           
  • Hamabata, T., M. Kawata, S. Kondo, A. Matsuo, Y. Suyama, K. Suzuki, and K. Kameda (2023) Twenty-year changes in the composition of a mixed stock of foraging green turtles in the Yaeyama Islands of Japan. Marine Ecology Progress Series. [pdf]                                                                                                                                                                             
  • Kawahara,K. T. Inada,  R. Tanaka,  M. Dayi,  T. Makino, S. Maruyama,  T. Kikuchi,  A. Sugimoto,  M. Kawata (2023) Differentially expressed genes associated with body size changes and transposable element insertions between Caenorhabditis elegans and its sister species, C. inopinata.. Genome Biology and Evolution, 15, 4  [Open Access]                                                                                                                    
  •  Thoma, V., S. Sakai, K. Nagata, Y. Ishii, S. Maruyama, A. Abe, S. Kondo, M. Kawata, Shun Hamada, R. Deguchi, and H. Tanimoto (2023) On the origin of appetite: GLWamide in jellyfish represents an ancestral satiety neuropeptide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, e2221493120  [Abstract]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         2022                                     
  •  Kanamori, S., Luis M. Díaz, A. Cádiz, K. Yamaguchi, S. Shigenobu, M. Kawata (2022) Draft genome of six Cuban Anolis lizards and insights into genetic changes during their diversification. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22: 129 [Open access]                                                                                                                                                                  
  • Sato, D. X*, Y. U. Inoue*, N. Kuga, S. Hattori, K. Nomoto, Y. Morimoto, G. Sala, H. Hagihara, T. Kikusui, T. Sasaki, Y. Ikegaya., T. Miyakawa, T. Inoue and M. Kawata (2022) Humanized substitutions of Vmat1 in mice alter amygdala-dependent behaviors associated with the evolution of anxiety. iScience 25, 104800 [Open access]                                                                                                                                                                                            
  • Díaz,L. M. , A. Cádiz, K. Velazco, and M. Kawata (2022) A new dwarf green anole (Squamata: Dactyloidae) of the Anolis carolinensis species group, from western Cuba. Caribbean Herpetology 84: 1–16   [Open access]                                                                                                                                                                
  • Kamioka*,T., H. C. Suzuki*, A. Ugajin, A.,  Y. Yamaguchi, M. Nishimura, T. Sasaki, M. Ono, and M. Kawata (2022) Genes associated with hot defensive bee ball in the Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica. BMC Ecology and Evolution  22:31 [Open access] [PNAS Journal club]                                                        
  •  Pozzi, A. (2022) COVID-19 and Mitochondrial Non-Coding RNAs: New Insights From Published Data. frontiers in Pysiology 12:805005. [Open access]                                                                                                  
  • Zhang X., Y. Hu, L. Eme, S. Maruyama, R. J. M. Eveleigh, B. A. Curtis, S. J. Sibbald, J. F. Hopkins, G. V. Filloramo, K. J. van Wijk, J. M. Archibald (2022) TreeTuner: A pipeline for minimizing redundancy and complexity in large phylogenetic datasets. STAR Protocols 3:101175. [Open access]
  • Suzuki-Ohno, Y., T. Westfechtel, J. Yokoyama, K. Ohno, T. Nakashizuka, M. Kawata and T. Okatani  (2022) Deep learning increases the availability of organism photographs taken by citizens in citizen science programs. Scientific Reports 12:1210 [Open access]                                                                                                                                                          
  • Ishii, Y., M. Hatta, R, Deguchi, M, Kawata, S. Maruyama (2022) Gene expression alterations from reversible to irreversible stages during coral metamorphosis. Zoological Letters 8:4  [Open access]                       
2021
                                                                                
  • Kawamoto, M., Y. Ishii,  M. Kawata (2021)  Genetic basis of orange spot formation in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).   BMC Ecology and Evolution 21: 211 [Open access]                                                                                
  • Suzuki-Ohno,Y., J. Yokoyama, T . Nakashizuka, M. Kawata (2021)  Bee occurrence data collected in citizen science program “Hanamaru-Maruhana national census” in Japan. (Data Paper)  Ecological Research  36:1028–1036. [Abstract]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  • Takahashi, M., G. Okude, R. Futahashi, Y. Takahashi, M. Kawata (2021)  The effect of the doublesex gene in body color masculinization of the damselfly Ischnura senegalensis.  Biology Letters 17: 20200761.    [Abstract]                                                                                                                                                                        
  • Kanamori, S., A. Cadiz, , L. Diaz, Y. Ishii, T. Nakayama and M. Kawata (2021) Detection of genes positively selected in Cuban Anolis lizards that naturally inhabit hot and open areas, and currently thrive in urban areas.  Ecology and Evolution  11:1719–1728.   [Open Access]                                
  • Horie, M., H. Akashi, M. Kawata and K. Tomonaga (2021) Identification of a reptile lyssavirus from Anolis allogus provides novel insights into the evolution of lyssaviruses.  Virus Genes 57:40-49 [Abstract]                                                                                       
 
 
 
2020年 ​​                                                                       
  • Hamabata, T., A. Matsuo, M. P. Sato, S. Kondo, K. Kameda, I. Kawazu, T. Fukuoka, K. Sato, Y. Suyama, M. Kawata (2020) Natal origin identification of green turtles in the North Pacific by genome-wide population analysis with limited DNA samples. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7:658 [Open Access]                                          
  • Nakayama T, Takahashi K, Kamikawa R, Iwataki M, Inagaki Y, Tanifuji G (2020) Putative genome features of relic green alga-derived nuclei in dinoflagellates and future perspectives as model organisms. Communicative & Integrative Biology 13(1):84-88 [Open Access]
  • Kobayashi C., K. Matusuo, and M.Kawata (2020) Contradictory effects of leaf rolls in a leaf-mining weevil. Scientific Reports 10:1218  [Open Access]                                                                                       
  • Faktorová, D., … Y. Ishii, ... S. Maruyama, … T. Mock, A. Z. Worden, J. Lukeš [113 authors] (2020) Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology. Nature Methods 17:481–494  [Open Access]                                                                                                                                 
  • Ikemoto, A., D. X. Sato, T. Makino, and M. Kawata (2020) Genetic factors for short life span associated with evolution of the loss of flight ability. Ecology and Evolution 10:6020-6029 [Open Access]  
  • Sarai, C.*, G. Tanifuji*, T. Nakayama*, R. Kamikawa*, K. Takahashi, E. Yazaki, E. Matsuo, H. Miyashita, K. Ishida, M. Iwataki, Y. Inagaki, *Co-first Authorship (2020) Dinoflagellates with relic endosymbiont nuclei as novel models for elucidating organellogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:5364-5375 [Abstract][解説]
  • Sakai, Y., M. Hatta, S. Furukawa, M. Kawata, N. Ueno, S. Maruyama (2020) Environmental factors explain spawning day deviation from full moon in the scleractinian coral AcroporaBiology Letters 16:20190760 [Open Access][解説][F1000Prime]
  • Sato, A., M. Kawata (2020) Genetic segregation for male body coloration and female mate preference in the guppy. BMC Research Notes 13:49 [Open Access]
 
2019
  • Sato, D. X.Y. Ishii, T. Nagai, K. Ohashi, M. Kawata (2019) Human-specific mutations in VMAT1 confer functional changes and multi-directional evolution in the regulation of monoamine circuits. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19:220 [Open Access][内容解説]
  • Hamabata, T., G. Kinoshita, K. Kurita, P.-L. Cao, M. Ito, J. Murata, Y. Komaki, Y.i Isagi, T. Makino (2019) Endangered island endemic plants have vulnerable genomes.  Communications Biology 2:244  [Open Access][EcolEvol Blog][解説]
  • Jensen P. M., N. N. Fitzsimmons, J. Bourjea, T. Hamabata, J. Reece, P. H. Dutton (2019) The evolutionary history and global phylogeography of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). Journal of Biogeography  46: 860– 870 [Abstract]

  • Nakayama, T., M. Nomura, Y. Takano, G. Tanifuji, K. Shiba, K. Inaba, Y. Inagaki, M. Kawata (2019) Single-cell genomics unveiled a cryptic cyanobacterial lineage with a worldwide distribution hidden by a dinoflagellate host.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116:15973-15978  [Abstract][About Cover][PNAS Commentaries][解説][PNAS Tweet]
  • Bridle, J., M. Kawata, R. Butlin. (2019) Local adaptation stops where ecological gradients steepen or are interrupted. Evolutionary Applications Special Issue: Maladaptation in Applied Evolution 12:1449-1462 [Open Access]
  • Ishii, Y., S. Maruyama, H. Takahashi, Y. Aihara, T. Yamaguchi, K. Yamaguchi, S.Shigenobu, M. Kawata, N. Ueno, J. Minagawa (2019) Global shifts in gene expression profiles accompanied with environmental changes in cnidarian-dinoflagellate endosymbiosis. G3: GENES, GENOMES, GENETICS 9: 2337-2347 [Abstract][解説][PNAS InnerWorkings]
  • Aihara Y, S. Maruyama, A. H. Baird, A. Iguchi, S. Takahashi, J. Minagawa (2019) Green fluorescence from cnidarian hosts attracts symbiotic algae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116:2118-2123 [Abstract][内容解説]
  • Makino, T. and M. Kawata (2019) Invasive invertebrates associated with highly duplicated gene content. Molecular Ecology 28:1652–1663 [Abstract][内容解説]
  • Sanchez, L., S. D. Ohdachi, A. Kawahara, L. M. Echenique-Diaz, S. MaruyamaM. Kawata (2019) Acoustic emissions of Sorex unguiculatus (Mammalia: Soricidae): assessing the echo-based orientation hypothesis.  Ecology and Evolution 2:629-2639 [Open Access]
  • Inoue, M. N., Y. Suzuki-Ohno, Y. Haga, H. Arai, T. Sano, V. V.  Martemyanov, Y. Kunimi (2019) Population dynamics and geographical distribution of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, in Japan. Forest Ecology and Management 434:154-164 [Abstract]
  • Takahashi, M.Y. TakahashiM. Kawata (2019) Candidate genes associated with color morphs of female-limited polymorphisms of the damselfly Ischnura senegalensisHeredity 122:81-92 [Abstract]
2018年  
  • Sakai, Y., S. Kawamura, M. Kawata (2018) Genetic and plastic variation in opsin gene expression, light sensitivity, and female response to visual signals in the guppy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115:12247-12252 [Open Access][内容解説][Outside JEB]
  • Takami, Y., T. Fukuhara, J. Yokoyama, M. Kawata (2018) Impact of sexually antagonistic genital morphologies on female reproduction and wild population demography. Evolution 72: 2449–2461[Abstract][解説][News] 
  • Cádiz, A., N. Nagata, L. Díaz, Y. Suzuki-Ohno, L.Echenique-Díaz, H. Akashi, T. MakinoM. Kawata (2018) Factors affecting interspecific differences in genetic divergence among populations of  Anolis lizards in Cuba. Zoological Letters 4:21 [Open Access][Anole Annals]
  • Suzuki, H. C., K. Ozaki, T. Makino, H. Uchiyama, S. Yajima, M. Kawata (2018) Evolution of gustatory receptor gene family provides insights into adaptation to diverse host plants in nymphalid butterflies. Genome Biology and Evolution 10:1351-1362 [Open Access]
  • Akashi, H., S. Saito, A. CádizT. Makino, M .Tominaga, M. Kawata (2018) Comparisons of behavioral and TRPA1 heat sensitivities in three sympatric Cuban Anolis lizards. Molecular Ecology 27:2234-2242 [Abstract][内容解説]
  • Ishii, Y.S. Maruyama, K. Fujimura-Kamada, N. Kutsuna, S. Takahashi, M. Kawata, J. Minagawa (2018) Isolation of uracil auxotroph mutants of coral symbiont alga for symbiosis studies. Scientific Reports 8:3237 [Open Access][解説][ニュース記事][news]
  • Makino, T., C. J. Rubin, M. Carneiro, E. Axelsson, L. Andersson, W. T. Webster (2018) Elevated proportions of deleterious genetic variation in domestic animals and plants. Genome Biology and Evolution 10(1):276-290 [Open Access]
  • Takahashi, Y, R. Tanaka, D. Yamamoto, S. Noriyuki, M. Kawata (2018) Balanced genetic polymorphism improves a population fitness. Proceedings of Royal Society of London B 285: 20172045 [Abstract][解説]
  • Tawarayama, H., H Yamada, R Amin, Y. Morita-Fujimura, H. Cooper, Y. Shinmyo, M. Kawata, S. Ikawa, H. Tanaka (2018) Draxin regulates hippocampal neurogenesis in the postnatal dentate gyrus by inhibiting DCC-induced apoptosis. Scientific Reports 8: 840 [Open Access]
2017年 
  • Tamate, S, W. M. Iwasaki., K. L. Krysko, B. J. Camposano, H. Mori., R. Funayama., K. Nakayama., T. MakinoM. Kawata. (2017) Inferring evolutionary responses of  Anolis carolinensis introduced into the Ogasawara archipelago using whole genome sequence data. Scientific Reports 7:18008 [Open Access][内容解説][Anole Annals]
     
  • Suzuki-Ohno, Y., J. Yokoyama, T. Nakashizuka, Kawata, M. (2017) Utilization of photographs taken by citizens for estimating bumblebee distributions. Scientific Reports 7:11215 [Open Access][Top 100 Ecology in Scientific Reports 2017]
     
  • Sekine M and Makino T. (2017) Inference of causative genes for Alzheimer’s disease due to dosage imbalance. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34:2396–2407 [Abstract] [内容解説] [News in MBE] 
     
  • Takii,R., M. Fujimoto, Y. Matsuura, F. Wu, N. Oshibe, E. Takaki, A. Katiyar, H. AkashiT. MakinoM. Kawata, A. Nakai.(2017) HSF1 and HSF3 cooperatively regulate the heat shock response in lizards. PLoS One 12(7): e0180776. [Open Access][内容解説]
     
  • Tamagawa, K, T. MakinoM, Kawata (2017) The effects of CpG densities around transcription start sites on sex-biased gene expression in Poecilia reticulata. Genome Biology and Evolution 9:1204-1211 [Open Access]
     
  • Suzuki-Ohno, Y., K. Morita, N. Nagata, H. Mori, S. Abe, T. MakinoM. Kawata (2017) Factors restricting the range expansion of the invasive green anole Anolis carolinensis on Okinawa Island, Japan. Ecology and Evolution 7:4357-4366 [Open Access][内容解説]
     
  • Arai, E., M. Hasegawa, T. Makino, A. Hagino, Y. Sakai, H. Otsuki, K. Wakamatsu, M. Kawata (2017) Physiological conditions and genetic controls of phaeomelanin pigmentation in nestling barn swallows. Behavioral Ecology 28:706-716 [Free access]
     
  • Ishikawa, A., M. Kusakabe, M. Ravinet, K. Yoshida, T. Makino, A. Toyoda, A. Fujiyama, J. Kitano (2017) Different contributions of local- and distant-regulatory changes to transcriptome divergence between stickleback ecotypes. Evolution 71:565-581 [Abstract]
  • Kusakabe M, Ishikawa A, Ravinet M, Yoshida K, Makino T, Toyoda A, Fujiyama A, Kitano J. (2017) Genetic basis for variation in salinity tolerance between stickleback ecotypes. Molecular Ecology 26:304-319 [Abstract]
  • Suda, A.N. NagataA. Sato, Y. Narimatsu, H. H. Nadiatul, M. Kawata (2017) Genetic variations and local differences in Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) around Japan. Journal of Fish Biology 90:61-79 [Abstract]
  • Yoshida K, T. Makino, J. Kitano (2017) Accumulation of deleterious mutations on the neo-Y chromosome of Japan Sea stickleback (Gasterosteus nipponicus). Journal of Heredity 108:63-68 [Abstract]
  • Furukawa S., K. Fujioka, H. Fukuda, N. Suzuki, Y. Tei, S. Ohshimo (2017) Archival tagging reveals swimming depth and ambient and peritoneal cavity temperature in age-0 Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, off the southern coast of Japan. Environmental Biology of Fishes 100:35-48 [Abstract]
  • Kawabe R., N. Nakatsuka, T. Wada, S. Sawaguchi, O. Murakami, K. Kamiyama, K. Kito, S. Furukawa, T. Kayaba (2017) Behaviourally mediated thermal experience in relation to final oocyte maturation by free-swimming barfin flounder (Verasper moseri). Fisheries Research 186:544–564 [Abstract]
2016
 
  • Suzuki, N., Y. Suzuki-Ohno, K. Takakura (2016) Variation of clutch size and trophic egg proportion in a ladybird with and without male-killing bacterial infection. Evolutionary Ecology 30:1081-1095 [Abstract]
  • Bybee, S., A. Córdoba-Aguilar, M. C. Duryea, R. Futahashi, B. Hansson, O. Lorenzo-Carballa, R. Schilder, R. Stoks, A. Suvorov, E. Svensson, J. Swaegers, Y. Takahashi, P. C. Watts, M. Wellenreuther (2016) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics. Frontiers in Zoology 13:46 [Abstract]
     
  • Takahashi Y., K. Takakura, M. Kawata (2016) Spatial distribution of flower color induced by interspecific sexual interaction. PLoS ONE 11(10):e0164381 [Open Access]
     
  • Petroutsos D, R. Tokutsu, S. Maruyama, S. Flori, A. Greiner, L. Magneschi, L. Cusant, T. Kottke, M. Mittag, P. Hegemann, G. Finazzi, J. Minagawa (2016) A blue light photoreceptor mediates the feedback regulation of photosynthesis. Nature 537:536-566 [Abstract][内容解説] 
     
  • Takahashi, Y., Y. Suyama, Y. Matsuki, R. Funayama, K. Nakayama, M. Kawata (2016) Lack of genetic variation prevents adaptation at the geographic range margin in a damselfly. Molecular Ecology 25:4450-4460 [Abstract][内容解説]
     
  • Kawamura, S, S. Kasagi, D. Kasai, A. TezukaA. Shoji, A. Takahashi, H. Imai, M. Kawata (2016) Spectral sensitivity of guppy visual pigments reconstituted in vitro to resolve association of opsins with cone cell types. Vision Research 127:67-73 [Open Access][内容スライド][内容解説]
  • Sakai, Y., H. Ohtuki, S. Kasagi, S. Kawamura, M. Kawata (2016) Effects of light environment during growth on the expression of cone opsin genes and behavioral spectral sensitivities in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).  BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:106 [Open Access][内容解説]
  • Akashi, H. D., A. Cadiz, S. Shigenobu, T. MakinoM. Kawata (2016) Differentially expressed genes associated with adaptation to different thermal environments in three sympatric Cuban Anolis lizards. Molecular Ecology 25:2273-2285 [Abstract][内容解説]
  • Yoshida, K., R. Miyagi, S. Mori, A. Takahashi, T. Makino, A. Toyoda, A. Fujiyama, J. Kitano (2016) Whole-genome sequencing reveals small genomic regions of introgression in an introduced crater lake population of threespine stickleback. Ecology and Evolution 6: 2190-2204 [Open Access]
  • Ozawa, N, H. Furuhashi, K. Masuko,E.  Numao, T. Makino, T. Yano, S. Kurata (2016) Organ identity specification factor WGE localizes to the histone locus body and regulates heterochromatin structure in Drosophila. Genes to Cells 21:442-456 [Abstract]
  • Sato, P. M.,T. MakinoM. Kawata (2016) Natural selection in a population of Drosophila melanogaster explained by changes in gene expression caused by sequence variation in core promoter regions. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:35 [Open Access]
2015
  • David, V., P. Flegontov, E. Gerasimov, G. Tanifuji, H. Hashimi, M. Logacheva, S. Maruyama, N. T. Onodera, M. W. Gray, J. M. Archibald, J. Lukeš (2015) Gene loss and error-prone RNA editing in the mitochondrion of Perkinsela, an endosymbiotic kinetoplastid. MBio 6(6):e01498-15 [Abstract]
  • Takahashi, Y., K. Takakura, M. Kawata (2015) Flower color polymorphism maintained by overdominant selection in Sisyrinchium sp. Journal of Plant Research 128:933-939 [Abstract]
  • Wakasa, H., A. Cadiz, L. M. Echenique-Diaz, W. M. Iwasaki, N. Kamiyama, Y. Nishimura, H. Yokoyama, K. Tamura, M. Kawata (2015) Developmental stages for the divergence of relative limb length between a twig and a trunk-ground Anolis lizard species. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Part B: Mol. Dev. Evol.) 324:410-423 [Abstract]
  • Takahashi, Y. (2015) Mechanisms and tests for geographic clines in genetic polymorphisms. Population Ecology 57:355-362 [Abstract]
  • Morii, Y., J. Yokoyama, M. Kawata, A. Davison, S. Chiba (2015) Evidence of introgressive hybridization between the morphologically divergent land snails Ainohelix and EzohelixBiological Journal of the Linnean Society 115:77-95 [Abstract]
  • Arai, E., M. Hasegawa, M. Nakamura, K. Wakamatsu (2015) Male pheomelanin pigmentation and the breeding onset in Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalisJournal of Ornithology 156:419-427 [Abstract] 
  • Kobayashi, C., K. Matsuo, K. Watanabe, N. NagataY. Suzuki-OhnoM. Kawata, M Kato. (2015) Arms race between leaf-rolling weevils and parasitoids: diversification of weevil’s plant-manipulation behavior and its consequence. Ecological Monographs 85:253-268 [Abstract][内容解説]
2014
  • Katayama, N., J. K. Abbott, J. Kjærandsen, Y. Takahashi and E. I. Svensson (2014) Sexual selection on wing interference patterns in Drosophila melanogasterProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111:15144-15148 [Abstract]
  • Tamate, S. C.M. KawataT. Makino (2014) Contribution of non-ohnologous duplicated genes to high habitat variability in mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31(7):1779-1786 [Abstract][News in MBE][記事][内容解説][サイエンスポータル]
     
  • Takahashi, T., N. Nagata, T. Sota (2014) Application of RAD-based phylogenetics to complex relationships among variously related taxa in a species flock. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 80:137-144 [Abstract]  
     
  • Tezuka, A., S. Kasagi, C. van Oosterhout, M. McMullan, W. M. Iwasaki, D. Kasai, M. Yamamichi, H. Innan, S. Kawamura, M. Kawata (2014) Divergent selection on opsin gene variation in guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations of Trinidad and Tobago. Heredity 113:381-389 [Abstract][内容解説][記事]  
     
  • Kimura-Kawaguchi, M., H. Horita, S. Abe, K. Arai, M. Kawata, H. Munehara (2014) Identification of hemi-clonal reproduction in three species of Hexagrammos marine reef fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 85:189-209 [Abstract][記事] 
     
  • Anzai, W., A. Omura, A. Cadiz Diaz, M. Kawata, E. Endo (2014) Functional morphology and comparative anatomy of appendicular musculature in Cuban Anolis lizards with different locomotor habits. Zoological Science 31:454-463 [Abstract] 
     
  • Yoshida, K., T. Makino, K. Yamaguchi, S. Shigenobu, M. Hasebe, M. Kawata, M. Kume, S. Mori,, C. L. Peichel, A. Toyoda, A. Fujiyama, J. Kitano (2014) Sex chromosome turnover contributes to genomic divergence between incipient stickleback species. PLoS Genetics 10(3):e1004223 [Open Access] 
     
  • McLysaght, A., T. Makino, H. Grayton, M. Tropeano, K. Mitchell, E. Vassos, D. A. Collier (2014) Ohnologs are overrepresented in pathogenic copy number mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111:361-366 [Abstract][news]
     
  • Takahashi, Y.N. NagataM. Kawata (2014) Antagonistic selection factors induce a continuous population divergence in a polymorphism. Heredity 112:391-398 [Abstract] 
     
  • Ohtsuki, H., J. Yokoyama, N. Ohba, Y. Ohmiya, M. Kawata (2014) Expression of nos gene and firefly flashing: A test of nitric oxide-mediated flash control model. Journal of Insect Science 14:56  [Open Access]
     
  • Hasegawa, M., E. Arai, M. Watanabe, M. Nakamura (2014) Male viability is positively related to multiple male ornaments in Asian Barn Swallows. Journal of Ornithology 15:389-397
     
  • Kobayashi, C., Y. Okuyama, K. Kawazoe, M. Kawata, M. Kato (2014) Evolutionary history of maternal plant-manipulation and larval feeding behaviours in Attelabidae (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea) and evolution of plant-basal weevil interaction. In Evolutionary Biology: Genome Evolution , Speciation, Coevolution and Origin of Life (ed Pierre PontarottiI). pp. 229-246.
2013
  • Makino, T., A. McLysaght, M. Kawata (2013) Genome-wide deserts for copy number variation in vertebrates. Nature Communications 4:2283 [news][news][解説]
     
  • Tomimatsu, H., T. Sasaki, H. Kurokawa, J. R. Bridle, C. Fontaine, J. Kitano, D.B. Stouffer, M. Vellend, T. M. Bezemer, G. Crutsinger, T. Fukami, E A. Hadly, M. G.A. van der Heijden, M. Kawata, S. Kéfi, M. Kondoh, N. J.B. Kraft, K. S. McCann, J. Montoya, P. Mumby, T. Nakashizuka,O. L. Petchey, T. Romanuk, K. N. Suding, G. Takimoto, J. Urabe, and S. Yachi. (2013) Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 50:1124-1130 [Abstract]
     
  • Takahashi, Y. and M. Kawata (2013) Alternative trait combinations and secondary resource partitioning in sexually selected colour polymorphism. Ecology and Evolution 3:2038–2046 [Abstract] 
     
  • Cádiz Díaz, A., N. Nagata, M. Katabuchi, L. M. Díaz, L. M. Echenique-Díaz, H. D. AkashiT. Makino, M. Kawata (2013) Relative importance of habitat use, range expansion, and speciation in local species diversity of Anolis lizards in Cuba. Ecosphere 4:art78. [Open Access][内容解説][Anole Annals; Lososによる紹介記事][キューバ調査] 
     
  • Iwasaki, W. M.M. E. TsudaM. Kawata (2013) Genetic and environmental factors affecting cryptic variations in gene regulatory networks. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:91 [Open Access]
     
  • Takahashi, Y. and M. Kawata (2013) A comprehensive test for negative frequency-dependent selection. Population Ecology 55:499-509  [Abstract] [紹介]  
     
  • Takahashi, Y. and M. Watanabe (2013) Time constraints related to sexual maturation and prolonged copulation in the female-dimorphic damselfly Ischnura senegalensisEntomological Science 16:34-39 
     
  • Makanae K, R. Kintaka, T. Makino, H. Kitano, H. Moriya (2013) Identification of dosage-sensitive genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using the genetic tug-of-war method. Genome Research 23(2):300-311 [news][news][news][news][news][解説]
     
  • Hasegawa, M., E. Arai, M. Watanabe, M. Nakamura (2013) Male nestling-like courtship attract female barn swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis. Animal Behaviour 86:949-953
     
  • Hasegawa, M. and E. Arai (2013) Differential Female Access to Males with Large Throat Patches in the Asian Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica gutturalis. Zoological Science 30(11):913-918
     
  • Hasegawa, M. and E. Arai (2013) Divergent tail and throat ornamentation in the barn swallow across the Japanese islands. Journal of Ethology 31:77-83
2012
 
  • Kobayashi, C., Y. Okuyama, K. Kawazoe, M. Kato (2012) The evolurtionary history of maternal plant-manipulation and larval feeding behaviors in attelabid weevils (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64:318-330 
     
  • Makino, T. and A. McLysaght (2012) Positionally-biased gene loss after whole genome duplication: evidence from human, yeast and plant. Genome Research 22(12):2427-2435 [news][news][news][This Week in Genome Research]
     
  • Takahashi, Y., G. Morimoto, M. Watanabe (2012) Ontogenetic colour change in females as a function of antiharassment strategy. Animal Behaviour 84:685-692
     
  • Makino, T. and M. Kawata (2012) Habitat variability correlates with duplicate content of Drosophilagenomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29:3169-3179 [Open Access][内容解説][news][news] 
     
  • Satake, M., M. Kawata, A. McLysaght, T. Makino (2012) Evolution of vertebrate tissues driven by differential modes of gene duplication. DNA Research 19:305-316 [Open Access] 
     
  • Adachi, T., A. Ishikawa, S. Mori, W. Makino, M. Kume, M. Kawata, J. Kitano (2012) Shifts in morphology and diet of non-native sticklebacks introduced into Japanese crater lakes. Ecology and Evolution 2:1083-1098 [Open Access][news]
     
  • Pessia, E., T. Makino, M. Bailly-Bechet, A. McLysaght, G. A. B. Marais (2012) Mammalian X Chromosome Inactivation evolved as a dosage compensation mechanism for dosage-sensitive genes on the X chromosome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109:5348-5351 [news][news][PNAS_Commentary] 
     
  • Kitamura J., N. Nagata, J. Nakajima, and T. Sota (2012) Divergence of ovipositor length and egg shape in a brood parasitic bitterling fish through the use of different mussel hosts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:566-573
     
  • Tezuka, A. N. Matsushima, Y. Nemoto, H. D. Akashi, M. KawataT. Makino (2012) Comprehensive Primer Design for Analysis of Population Genetics in Non-Sequenced Organisms. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32314. [Open Access][This Week in PLoS] 
     
  • Suzuki-Ohno, Y.M. Kawata, and J. Urabe (2012) Optimal feeding under stoichiometric constraints: A model of compensatory feeding with functional response. Oikos 121:569-578
2011
 
  • Kitano, J.Y. Kawagishi, S. Mori., C. L. Peichel., T. MakinoM. Kawata, M. Kusakabe (2011) Divergence in sex steroid hormone signaling between sympatric species of Japanese threespine stickleback. PLoS ONE 6(12):e29253 [Open Access]
     
  • Takahashi, Y. and M. Watanabe (2011) Male mate choice based on ontogenetic colour changes of females in the damselfly Ischnura senegalensis. Journal of Ethology 29:293–299
     
  • Takahashi, Y., S. Morita, J. Yoshimura, M. Watanabe (2011) A Geographic cline induced by negative frequency-dependent selection. BMC Evolutionary Biology [Open Access]
     
  • Ishida, S , A. TakahashiN. Matsushima, J. Yokoyama, W. Makino, J. Urabe, M. Kawata (2011) The long-term consequences of hybridization between the two Daphnia species, D. galeata and D. dentifera, in mature habitats. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:209 [Open Access]
     
  • Nakamura, I., Y. Onoda, N. Matsushima, J. Yokoyama, M. Kawata, K. Hikosaka (2011) Phenotypic and genetic differences in a perennial herb across a natural gradient of CO2 concentration. Oecologia 165:809-818
     
  • Tezuka, A., H. Yamamoto, J. Yokoyama, C. van Oosterhout, M. Kawata (2011) The MC1R gene in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata): Genotypic and phenotypic polymorphisms. BMC Research Notes 4:31 [Open Access]
     
  • Yamaguchi, W. M. Kondoh, M. Kawata (2011) Effects of evolutionary changes in prey use on the relationship between food web complexity and stability. Population Ecology 53:59-72
     
  • Kimura, R. M. and H. Munehara (2011) Spawning substrata are important for breeding habitat selection but do not determine premating reproductive isolation in three sympatric Hexagrammos species. Journal of Fish Biology 78:112-126
2010
 
  • Kitano, J., S. C. Lema, J. A. Luckenbach, S. Mori, Y. Kawagishi, M. Kusakabe, P. Swanson, C. L. Peichel (2010) Adaptive divergence in the thyroid hormone signaling pathway in the stickleback radiation. Current Biology 20:2124-2130 [Open Access]
     
  • Tsuda, M. E. and M. Kawata (2010) Evolution of gene regulatory networks by fluctuating selection and intrinsic constraints. PLoS Computational Biology 6(8):e1000873 [Open Access][内容解説]  
     
  • Perez-Bercoff A., T. Makino, A. McLysaght (2010) Duplicability of self-interacting human genes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:160 [Open Access]
     
  • Kume, M., J. Kitano, S. Mori, T. Shibuya (2010) Ecological divergence and habitat isolation between two migratory forms of Japanese threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23:1436-1446
     
  • Suzuki-Ohno, Y., Inoue, M. N., and Ohno, K. (2010) Applying geographic profiling used in the field of criminology for predicting the nest locations of bumble bees. Journal of Theoretical Biology 265:211-217
     
  • Bridle, J. R., J. Polechova, M. Kawata, R. K. Butlin (2010) Why is adaptation prevented at ecological margins? New insights from individual-based simulations. Ecology Letters 13:485-494 [内容解説
     
  • Kimura, M. R., H. Munehara (2010) The disruption of habitat isolation among three Hexagrammos species by artifical habitat alterations that create mosaic-habitat. Ecological Research 25:41-50
     
  • Iwasa, Y., Y. Suzuki-Ohno, H. Yokomizo (2010) Paradox of nutrient removal in coupled socio-economic and ecological dynamics for lake water pollution. Theoretical Ecology 3:113-122.
     
  • Makino T., D. G. Knowles, A. McLysaght (2010) Functional divergence of duplicated genes, In Evolution After Gene Duplication (Katharina Dittmar and David Liberles eds.), 23-30, John Wiley & Sons
2009
  • Kitano J., J. A. Ross, Seiichi Mori, M. Kume, F. C. Jones, Y. F. Chan, D. M. Absher, J. Grimwood, J. Schmutz, R. M. Myers, D. M. Kingsley and C. L. Peichel (2009) A role for a neo-sex chromosome in stickleback speciation. Nature 461:1081-1083
     
  • Kodaira, Y.H. Ohtsuki, J. Yokoyama, M. Kawata (2009) Size-dependent foraging gene expression and labor division in Bombus ignitu. BMC Research Notes 2:184 [Open Access]
     
  • Mizuno, N. A. and M. Kawata (2009) The effects of the evolution of stoichiometry-related traits on population dynamics in plankton communities. Journal of Theoretical Biology 259:209-218
     
  • Echenique-Díaz L. M., J. Yokoyama, O. Takahashi, M. Kawata (2009), Genetic structure of island populations of the endangered bat Hipposideros turpis turpis: Implications for conservation. Population Ecology 15:153-160
     
  • Suzuki, Y. and Y. Iwasa (2009) Conflict between groups of players in coupled socio-economic and ecological dynamics. Ecological Economics 68:1006-1115
     
  • Suzki, Y. and Y. Iwasa (2009) The coupled dynamics of human socio-economic choice and lake water system: the interaction of two sources of nonlinearity. Ecological Research 24(3):479-489
     
  • Suzuki, Y., L. G. Kawaguchi, D. T. Munidasa, Y. Toquenaga (2009) Do bumble bee queens choose nest locations to maximize their foraging rate? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:1353-1362
     
  • Makino T., K. Hokamp, A. McLysaght (2009) Complex relationship of gene duplication and essentiality. Trends in Genetics 25:152-155
     
  • Echenique-Díaz L. M. , J. Yokoyama, M. Kawata (2009). Japan's islands, biology. pp.497-500. in R. G. Gillespie and D. A. Clague (eds), Encyclopedia of Islands. Univ. California Press.
     
  • Makino T. and A. McLysaght (2009) The evolution of functional gene clusters in eukaryote genomes. In Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application II (Pierre Pontarotti eds.), 185-194, Springer
     
  • Makino T. and A. McLysaght (2009) Evolutionary Analyses of Protein Interaction Networks. In Biological Data Mining in Protein Interaction Network (Xiao-Li Li, See-Kiong Ng eds.), 169-181, IGI Global, US
2008
  • Yoshino, H., K. Armstrong, M. Izawa, J. Yokoyama, M. Kawata (2008) Genetic and acoustic population structuring in the Okinawa Least Horsehoe bat: inter-colony acoustic differnces maintained by vertical maternal transmission? Molecular Ecology 17:4978-4991 
     
  • Ohtsuki, H., J. Yokoyama, N. Ohba, Y. Ohmiya, M. Kawata (2008). Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) in the Japanese fireflies, Luciola lateralis and Luciola cruciataArchives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 69:176-188 
 
2007
  • Kawata, M.A. Shoji, S. Kawamura and O. Seehausen (2007) A genetically explicit model of speciation by sensory drive within a continuous population in aquatic environments. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:99 [Open Access]  
     
  • Yamamoto, N.J, YokoyamaM. Kawata (2007) Relative resource abundance explains butterfly biodiversity in island communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:10524-10529 [Open Access] 
  • Kato, S., J. Urabe, M. Kawata (2007) Effects of temporal and spatial heterogeneities created by consumer-driven nutrient recycling on algal diversity. Journal of Theoretical Biology 254:364-377 
     
  • Shoji, A.J. YokoyamaM. Kawata (2007) Molecular phylogeny and genetic divergence of the introduced populations of Japanese guppies, Poecilia reticulataConservation Genetics 8:267-271 
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