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  1. Attraction waves of male fiddler crabs: A visual display designed for efficacy

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  2. Multimodal signaling in fiddler crab: waving to attract mates is condition-dependent but other sexual signals are not

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  3. Distribution of the invasive snail Laguncula pulchella and the effect of its predation on the mollusk populations in the Orikasa River Estuary after the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Article • Japanese journal of benthology, January 2018, The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  4. Effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake on Intertidal Macrobenthos in Iwate Prefecture

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  5. Colonization of the Restored and Newly Created Tidal Flats by Benthic Animals in the Sanriku Region of Northern Japan

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  6. Quantitative analysis of small bio-samples of nearly 1 μg

    Article • International Journal of PIXE, January 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  7. Assimilation of terrigenous organic matter via bacterial biomass as a food source for a brackish clam, Corbicula japonica (Mollusca: Bivalva)

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  8. A low-cost sexual ornament reliably signals male condition in the fiddler crab Uca beebei

    Article • Animal Behaviour, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  9. ANALYSIS OF PLANTS AND SEDIMENTS FROM THE TIDELANDS OF THE COASTAL REGIONS OF THE TOHOKU DISTRICT FOLLOWING THE 2011 TSUNAMI

    Article • International Journal of PIXE, January 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  10. Practical applications of molecular biological species identification of forensically important flies

    Article • Legal Medicine, April 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  11. Macroalgae and seagrass contribution to intertidal gastropods

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, October 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  12. What are the consequences of being left-clawed in a predominantly right-clawed fiddler crab?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  13. Animals on marine flowers: does the presence of flowering shoots affect mobile epifaunal assemblage in an eelgrass meadow?

    Article • Marine Biology, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  14. The forensic availability of a simple and time-saving method for the identification of dipteran species to estimate postmortem interval using entomological evidence

    Article • Legal Medicine, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  15. Spatial shifts in food sources for macrozoobenthos in an estuarine ecosystem: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, August 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  16. Changes in blood glucose and lactate levels of male fiddler crabs: effects of aggression and claw waving

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  17. Gill ultrastructure and salinity tolerance of Caprella spp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidea) inhabiting the Sargassum community

    Article • Fisheries Science, October 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  18. Distribution Patterns of a Subtidal Pen Shell and Intertidal Ocypodid Crabs in Relation to Seagrass Vegetation in Shallow Waters of Southern Thailand

    Article • Benthos research, January 2002, The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  19. Seasonal and Between-Substrate Variation in Mobile Epifaunal Community in a Multispecific Seagrass Bed of Otsuchi Bay, Japan

    Article • Marine Ecology, December 2001, Wiley

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  20. Observation of cavitation bubble cloud using a stroboscopic x-ray generator

    Article • April 2001, SPIE

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  21. Blood Osmoregulation and Ultrastructure of the Gas Windows(‘Tympana’)of Intertidal Ocypodid Crabs: Dotilla vs. Scopimera

    Article • Benthos research, January 2001, The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  22. Morphometric Characteristics and Length of the ‘Variable Region’ in the Nonrepetitive Domain of the Adhesive Protein of Mytilus species in the Asamushi Area, Northern Japan

    Article • ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, December 1999, Zoological Society of Japan

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  23. Specialized Ion-Transporting Epithelium around the Blood Vessel of the Coxal Gills in a Deep-Sea Amphipod, Eurythenes gryllus

    Article • Journal of Crustacean Biology, November 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  24. Ultrastructural Evidence for Osmoregulatory Function of the Sternal Epithelia in Some Gammaridean Amphipods

    Article • Journal of Crustacean Biology, August 1997, JSTOR

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  25. Variation in the Branchial Formula of Semiterrestrial Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae and Ocypodidae) in Relation to Physiological Adaptations to the Environment

    Article • Journal of Crustacean Biology, August 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  26. “Igloo” construction by the ocypodid crab, Dotilla myctiroides (Milne-Edwards) (Crustacea; Brachyura): the role of an air chamber when burrowing in a saturated sandy substratum

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, June 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  27. Pereopodal disk: a new type of extrabranchial ion-transporting organ in an estuarine amphipod, Melita setiflagella (crustacea)

    Article • Tissue and Cell, December 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  28. Effect of secondary substrate on associated small crustaceans in a brackish lagoon

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, March 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  29. The ultrastructure of the sternal gills forming a striking contrast with the coxal gills in a fresh-water amphipod (crustacea)

    Article • Tissue and Cell, December 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  30. Two ultrastructurally distinct types of transporting tissues, the branchiostegal and the gill epithelia, in an estuarine tanaid, Sinelobus stanfordi (Crustacea, Peracarida)

    Article • Zoomorphology, December 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  31. The osmoregulatory tissue around the afferent blood vessels of the coxal gills in the estuarine amphipods, Grandidierella japonica and Melita setiflagella

    Article • Tissue and Cell, August 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa

  32. 宮城県蒲生潟における底生小型甲殻類の分布と環境要因

    Article • January 1988, The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Masatoshi Matsumasa