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"Raku-Yu" 2015 Autumn)
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Genome database of termite egg-mimicking fungus
"Termite ball"
Overview
(Kyoto University Newsletter
"Raku-Yu" 2015 Autumn)
©Yoh IzumoriGenome database of termite egg-mimicking fungus
"Termite ball"
Recent activities
2019
September 12 A new paper was published!
Takata M., Mitaka Y., Steiger S., Mori N: A parental volatile pheromone triggers offspring begging in a burying beetle. iScience Just Accepted. DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2019.06.041 OPEN ACCESS
2018
October 28 A new paper was published!
Eyer PA, Matsuura K, Vargo EL, Kobayashi K, Yashiro T, Suehiro W, Himuro C, Yokoi T, Guénard B, Dunn RR, Tsuji K: Inbreeding tolerance as a preadapted trait for invasion success in the invasive ant Brachyponera chinensis. Molecular Ecology 27(23): 4711-4724. DOI:10.1111/mec.14910.
October 11 A new paper was published!
Tasaki E, Mitaka Y, Nozaki T, Kobayashi K, Matsuura K, Iuchi Y : High expression of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 in long-lived termite kings. Aging 10(10): 2668–2683. DOI:10.18632/aging.101578.
September 25 A new paper was published!
Mitaka Y, Mori N, Matsuura K : A termite fungistatic compound, mellein, inhibits entomopathogenic fungi but not egg-mimicking termite ball fungi. Applied Entomology and Zoology 54(1): 39-46. DOI:0.1007/s13355-018-0589-1.
September 25 A new paper was published!
Yashiro T., Lo N., Kobayashi K., Nozaki T., Fuchikawa T., Mizumoto N., Namba Y., Matsuura K.: Loss of males from mixed-sex societies in termites. BMC Biology 16:96. DOI:10.1186/s12915-018-0563-y.OPEN ACCESS
September 10 A new paper was published!
Mitaka Y, Tasaki E, Nozaki T, Fuchikawa T, Kbayashi K, Matsuura K: Transcriptomic analysis of epigenetic : Transcriptomic analysis of epigenetic modification genes in the termite Reticulitermes speratus Insect Science (published online). DOI:10.1111/1744-7917.12640.
August 30 A new paper was published!
Inagaki T. and Matsuura K. : Extended mutualism between termites and gut microbes: nutritional symbionts contribute to nest hygiene. The Science of Nature 105:52. DOI:10.1007/s00114-018-1580-y.
August 30 A new paper was published!
Otake R. and Dobata S. : Copy if dissatisfied, innovate if not: contrasting egg-laying decision making in an insect. Animal Cognition 21(6): 805–812.DOI:10.1007/s10071-018-1212-0 .
August 27 A new paper was published!
Idogawa N, Dobata S : Colony structure and life history of Lioponera daikoku (Formicidae: Dorylinae). Asian Myrmecology (online first).DOI:10.20362/am.010006.
July 10 A new paper was published!
Tasaki E, Matsuura K, Iuchi Y: Hypoxia adaptation in termites: hypoxic conditions enhance survival and reproductive activity in royals. Insect Molecular Biology 27(6): 808–814. DOI:10.1111/imb.12519.
March 25 A new paper was published!
Matsuura K, Mizumoto N, Kobayashi K, Nozaki T, Fujita T, Yashiro T, Fuchikawa T, Mitaka Y, Vargo EL: A genomic imprinting model of termite caste determination: Not genetic but epigenetic inheritance influences offspring caste fate. American Naturalist 191, 677-690. DOI:10.1086/697238.OPEN ACCESS
March 7 A new paper was published!
Yanagihara S, Suehiro W, Mitaka Y, Matsuura K: Age-based soldier polyethism: old termite soldiers take more risks than young soldiers. Biology Letters 14: 20180025 DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2018.0025 .
February 20 A new paper was published!
Mizumoto N, Dobata S (2018) The optimal movement patterns for mating encounters with sexually asymmetric detection ranges. Scientific Reports 8: 3356 DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21437-3
January 25 A new article was published!
Nozaki T, Yashiro T, Matsuura K: Preadaptation for asexual queen succession: queen tychoparthenogenesis produces neotenic queens in the termite Reticulitermes okinawanus. Insectes Sociaux (First Online) DOI: 10.1007/s00040-018-0603-110.1007/s00040-018-0603-1
January 22 A new article was published!
Yashiro T, Mitaka Y, Nozaki T, Matsuura K: Chemical and molecular identiication of the invasive termite Zootermopsis nevadensis (Isoptera: Archotermopsidae) in Japan. Applied Entomology and Zoology (in press)
January 9 A new article was accepted!
Tasaki E, Kobayashi K, Matsuura K, Iuchi Y: Long-lived termite queens exhibit high Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase activity. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity (in press).
2017
December 29 A new article was published!
Matsuura K, Mizumoto N, Kobayashi K, Nozaki T, Fujita T, Yashiro T, Fuchikawa T, Mitaka Y, Vargo EL: A genomic imprinting model of termite caste determination: Not genetic but epigenetic inheritance influences offspring caste fate. American Naturalist (in press).
November 3 A new article was published!
Suehiro W, Hyodo F, Tanaka HO, Himuro C, Yokoi T, Dobata S, Guenard B, Dunn RR, Vargo EL, Tsuji K, Matsuura K: Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant.Scientific Reports 7, 15016. (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15105-1).
October 31 A new article was published!
Hasegawa E, Mizumoto N, Kobayashi K, Dobata S, Yoshimura J, Watanabe S, Murakami Y, Matsuura K: Nature of collective decision-making by simple yes/no decision units. Scientific Reports 7, 14436. (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14626-z)
October 13－15 We participated in the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology (@Nishijin Plaza, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan).
[Symposium]
The era of genome imprinting: epigenetic inheritance and a paradigm shift in evolutionary ecology
Organizer: Kenji Matsuura
Speaker:
Yoh Iwasa (Kyushu Univ.) Genomic imprinting in mammals: success and failure of conflict theory
Sergey Gavrilets (Univ. Tennessee) Sexually antagonistic epigenetic marks and canalization of sexual development
Hidetoshi Saze (OIST) Epigenetic regulation of genes and transposable elements in plants
Kenji Matsuura (Kyoto Univ.) Genomic imprinting and the evolution of caste determination system in termites
[Poster]
Nobuaki Mizumoto, Shigeto Dobata: Searching strategy when a mating pair gets separated in termites
Masato S. Abe, Shigeto Dobata: Relaxed selection against mutational load in social insect workers facilitates the evolution of their sterility
Naoto Idogawa, Shigeto Dobata: Superorganismal adaptation explored in the nest size of clonal ants
October 1 English top page was open.
Copyright (C) Kyoto University Laboratory of Insect Ecology
2019
September 12 A new paper was published!
Takata M., Mitaka Y., Steiger S., Mori N: A parental volatile pheromone triggers offspring begging in a burying beetle. iScience Just Accepted. DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2019.06.041 OPEN ACCESS
2018
October 28 A new paper was published!
Eyer PA, Matsuura K, Vargo EL, Kobayashi K, Yashiro T, Suehiro W, Himuro C, Yokoi T, Guénard B, Dunn RR, Tsuji K: Inbreeding tolerance as a preadapted trait for invasion success in the invasive ant Brachyponera chinensis. Molecular Ecology 27(23): 4711-4724. DOI:10.1111/mec.14910.
October 11 A new paper was published!
Tasaki E, Mitaka Y, Nozaki T, Kobayashi K, Matsuura K, Iuchi Y : High expression of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 in long-lived termite kings. Aging 10(10): 2668–2683. DOI:10.18632/aging.101578.
September 25 A new paper was published!
Mitaka Y, Mori N, Matsuura K : A termite fungistatic compound, mellein, inhibits entomopathogenic fungi but not egg-mimicking termite ball fungi. Applied Entomology and Zoology 54(1): 39-46. DOI:0.1007/s13355-018-0589-1.
September 25 A new paper was published!
Yashiro T., Lo N., Kobayashi K., Nozaki T., Fuchikawa T., Mizumoto N., Namba Y., Matsuura K.: Loss of males from mixed-sex societies in termites. BMC Biology 16:96. DOI:10.1186/s12915-018-0563-y.OPEN ACCESS
September 10 A new paper was published!
Mitaka Y, Tasaki E, Nozaki T, Fuchikawa T, Kbayashi K, Matsuura K: Transcriptomic analysis of epigenetic : Transcriptomic analysis of epigenetic modification genes in the termite Reticulitermes speratus Insect Science (published online). DOI:10.1111/1744-7917.12640.
August 30 A new paper was published!
Inagaki T. and Matsuura K. : Extended mutualism between termites and gut microbes: nutritional symbionts contribute to nest hygiene. The Science of Nature 105:52. DOI:10.1007/s00114-018-1580-y.
August 30 A new paper was published!
Otake R. and Dobata S. : Copy if dissatisfied, innovate if not: contrasting egg-laying decision making in an insect. Animal Cognition 21(6): 805–812.DOI:10.1007/s10071-018-1212-0 .
August 27 A new paper was published!
Idogawa N, Dobata S : Colony structure and life history of Lioponera daikoku (Formicidae: Dorylinae). Asian Myrmecology (online first).DOI:10.20362/am.010006.
July 10 A new paper was published!
Tasaki E, Matsuura K, Iuchi Y: Hypoxia adaptation in termites: hypoxic conditions enhance survival and reproductive activity in royals. Insect Molecular Biology 27(6): 808–814. DOI:10.1111/imb.12519.
March 25 A new paper was published!
Matsuura K, Mizumoto N, Kobayashi K, Nozaki T, Fujita T, Yashiro T, Fuchikawa T, Mitaka Y, Vargo EL: A genomic imprinting model of termite caste determination: Not genetic but epigenetic inheritance influences offspring caste fate. American Naturalist 191, 677-690. DOI:10.1086/697238.OPEN ACCESS
March 7 A new paper was published!
Yanagihara S, Suehiro W, Mitaka Y, Matsuura K: Age-based soldier polyethism: old termite soldiers take more risks than young soldiers. Biology Letters 14: 20180025 DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2018.0025 .
February 20 A new paper was published!
Mizumoto N, Dobata S (2018) The optimal movement patterns for mating encounters with sexually asymmetric detection ranges. Scientific Reports 8: 3356 DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21437-3
January 25 A new article was published!
Nozaki T, Yashiro T, Matsuura K: Preadaptation for asexual queen succession: queen tychoparthenogenesis produces neotenic queens in the termite Reticulitermes okinawanus. Insectes Sociaux (First Online) DOI: 10.1007/s00040-018-0603-110.1007/s00040-018-0603-1
January 22 A new article was published!
Yashiro T, Mitaka Y, Nozaki T, Matsuura K: Chemical and molecular identiication of the invasive termite Zootermopsis nevadensis (Isoptera: Archotermopsidae) in Japan. Applied Entomology and Zoology (in press)
January 9 A new article was accepted!
Tasaki E, Kobayashi K, Matsuura K, Iuchi Y: Long-lived termite queens exhibit high Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase activity. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity (in press).
2017
December 29 A new article was published!
Matsuura K, Mizumoto N, Kobayashi K, Nozaki T, Fujita T, Yashiro T, Fuchikawa T, Mitaka Y, Vargo EL: A genomic imprinting model of termite caste determination: Not genetic but epigenetic inheritance influences offspring caste fate. American Naturalist (in press).
November 3 A new article was published!
Suehiro W, Hyodo F, Tanaka HO, Himuro C, Yokoi T, Dobata S, Guenard B, Dunn RR, Vargo EL, Tsuji K, Matsuura K: Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant.Scientific Reports 7, 15016. (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15105-1).
October 31 A new article was published!
Hasegawa E, Mizumoto N, Kobayashi K, Dobata S, Yoshimura J, Watanabe S, Murakami Y, Matsuura K: Nature of collective decision-making by simple yes/no decision units. Scientific Reports 7, 14436. (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14626-z)
October 13－15 We participated in the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology (@Nishijin Plaza, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan).
[Symposium]
The era of genome imprinting: epigenetic inheritance and a paradigm shift in evolutionary ecology
Organizer: Kenji Matsuura
Speaker:
Yoh Iwasa (Kyushu Univ.) Genomic imprinting in mammals: success and failure of conflict theory
Sergey Gavrilets (Univ. Tennessee) Sexually antagonistic epigenetic marks and canalization of sexual development
Hidetoshi Saze (OIST) Epigenetic regulation of genes and transposable elements in plants
Kenji Matsuura (Kyoto Univ.) Genomic imprinting and the evolution of caste determination system in termites
[Poster]
Nobuaki Mizumoto, Shigeto Dobata: Searching strategy when a mating pair gets separated in termites
Masato S. Abe, Shigeto Dobata: Relaxed selection against mutational load in social insect workers facilitates the evolution of their sterility
Naoto Idogawa, Shigeto Dobata: Superorganismal adaptation explored in the nest size of clonal ants
October 1 English top page was open.
Copyright (C) Kyoto University Laboratory of Insect Ecology