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  1. Female genital mutilation and monandry in an orb-web spider

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  2. Vertical asymmetries in orb webs

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  3. Spatial learning affects thread tension control in orb-web spiders

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  4. The effect of predation risk on spider’s decisions on web-site relocation

    Article • Behaviour, January 2013, Brill

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  5. Plasticity in an extended phenotype and reversed up-down asymmetry of spider orb webs

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  6. Does ontogenetic change in orb web asymmetry reflect biogenetic law?

    Article • The Science of Nature, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  7. Upside-down spiders build upside-down orb webs: web asymmetry, spider orientation and running speed in Cyclosa

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  8. To be or not to be conspicuous: the effects of prey availability and predator risk on spider's web decoration building

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  9. Attention focusing in a sit-and-wait forager: a spider controls its prey-detection ability in different web sectors by adjusting thread tension

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  10. Spider orientation and hub position in orb webs

    Article • The Science of Nature, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  11. Spiders Use Airborne Cues to Respond to Flying Insect Predators by Building Orb-Web with Fewer Silk Thread and Larger Silk Decorations

    Article • Ethology, July 2008, Wiley

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  12. Prey detection without successful capture affects spider’s orb-web building behaviour

    Article • The Science of Nature, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  13. Difference in Web Construction Behavior at Newly Occupied Web Sites Between Two Cyclosa Species

    Article • Ethology, May 2004, Wiley

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  14. Feeding experience affects web relocation and investment in web threads in an orb-web spider, Cyclosa argenteoalba

    Article • Animal Behaviour, June 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  15. Absence of sex-differential brood raising by workers in Diacamma sp. from Japan

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, August 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  16. Does behavioral flexibility compensate or constrain colony productivity? Relationship among age structure, labor allocation, and production of workers in ant colonies

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, July 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kensuke Nakata

  17. Age polyethism, idiosyncrasy and behavioural flexibility in the queenless ponerine ant,Diacamma sp.

    Article • Journal of Ethology, June 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kensuke Nakata