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  1. The trick of termite pairing

    Article • Science Advances, June 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  2. Using swarm robots to understand the evolution of self-organization

    Article • Communications Biology, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  3. Seasonal and temporal variations in colony-level foraging activity of a queenless ant, Diacamma sp., in Japan

    Article • Journal of Ethology, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  4. Copy if dissatisfied, innovate if not: contrasting egg-laying decision making in an insect

    Article • Animal Cognition, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  5. The optimal movement patterns for mating encounters with sexually asymmetric detection ranges

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  6. Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  7. Nature of collective decision-making by simple yes/no decision units

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2017, Nature

    Yuuka Murakami, Dr Shigeto Dobata

  8. Anomalous diffusion on the servosphere: A potential tool for detecting inherent organismal movement patterns

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2017, PLOS

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  9. Optimizing mating encounters by sexually dimorphic movements

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, May 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  10. Social structure of the polygynous ant, Crematogaster osakensis

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  11. Active modification of the environment by a robot with construction abilities

    Article • ROBOMECH Journal, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  12. Designing pheromone communication in swarm robotics: Group foraging behavior mediated by chemical substance

    Article • Swarm Intelligence, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  13. Relationship between survivability of ant colony and rate of state transition to rest

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  14. Lévy walk enhances efficiency of group foraging in pheromone-communicating swarm robots

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  15. Public goods dilemma in asexual ant societies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  16. ARMS RACE BETWEEN SELFISHNESS AND POLICING: TWO-TRAIT QUANTITATIVE GENETIC MODEL FOR CASTE FATE CONFLICT IN EUSOCIAL HYMENOPTERA

    Article • Evolution, August 2012, Wiley

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  17. Intragenomic conflict over queen determination favours genomic imprinting in eusocial Hymenoptera

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  18. Collision-Induced “Priority Rule” Governs Efficiency of Pheromone-Communicating Swarm Robots

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  19. Paternally inherited alleles in male body parts of an ant (Diacamma sp.) sex mosaic: implication for androgenetic male production in the Hymenoptera

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  20. Parasitism of adult Poecilus versicolor (Coleoptera: Carabidae) by hymenopteran larvae

    Article • The Canadian Entomologist, June 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  21. Persistence of the single lineage of transmissible ‘social cancer’ in an asexual ant

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2010, Wiley

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  22. Increasing Individual Density Reduces Extra-Variance in Swarm Intelligence

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  23. Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources database 1 January 2009–30 April 2009

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  24. A cheater lineage in a social insect

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  25. Cheater genotypes in the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus

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

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  26. Disturbed Population Genetics: Suspected Introgressive Hybridization between Two Mnais Damselfly Species (Odonata)

    Article • ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, August 2005, Zoological Society of Japan

    Dr Shigeto Dobata

  27. Dependency by Concentration of Pheromone Trail for Multiple Robots

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shigeto Dobata