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  1. Reconstructing sexual behavior of extinct animals from amber.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  2. Wasted efforts impair random search efficiency and reduce choosiness in mate-pairing termites

    Article • February 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  3. The significance of social interactions in synchronized swarming flight in a termite

    Article • December 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  4. Protocol to obtain long movement trajectories of leaders and followers in ant tandem runs

    Article • STAR Protocols, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  5. TManual: Assistant for manually measuring length development in structures built by animals

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  6. Extinct and extant termites reveal the fidelity of behavior fossilization in amber

    Article • May 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  7. Functional and mechanistic diversity in ant tandem communication

    Article • iScience, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  8. TManual: Assistant for manually measuring length development in structures built by animals

    Article • December 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  9. Light alters activity but does not disturb tandem coordination of termite mating pairs

    Article • Ecological Entomology, November 2022, Wiley

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  10. Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  11. Cryptic functional diversity in ant tandem runs

    Article • August 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  12. Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour

    Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  13. Age-based spatial distribution of workers is resilient to worker loss in a subterranean termite

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  14. Molecular Phylogeny Reveals the Past Transoceanic Voyages of Drywood Termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae)

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, May 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  15. Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles

    Article • Evolution, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  16. Enhanced heterozygosity from male meiotic chromosome chains is superseded by hybrid female asexuality in termites

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  17. The evolution of body size in termites

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  18. The history of body size evolution in termites

    Article • October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  19. Coordination of movement via complementary interactions of leaders and followers in termite mating pairs

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  20. Coordination of movement via complementary interactions of leaders and followers in termite mating pairs

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  21. Termite males enhance mating encounters by changing speed according to density

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  22. Behavioral Rules for Soil Excavation by Colony Founders and Workers in Termites

    Article • Annals of the Entomological Society of America, August 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  23. Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviors

    Article • eLife, July 2020, eLife

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  24. Modern termites inherited the potential of collective construction from their common ancestor

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  25. Parameter tuning facilitates the evolution of diverse tunneling patterns in termites

    Article • November 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  26. Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviors

    Article • September 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  27. The trick of termite pairing

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

    Dr Shigeto Dobata, Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  28. Inferring collective behaviour from a fossilized fish shoal

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  29. Loss of males from mixed-sex societies in termites

    Article • BMC Biology, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  30. Barricade construction by primitive termites: task allocation and evolutionary perspectives

    Article • Artificial Life and Robotics, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  31. Adaptive switch to sexually dimorphic movements by partner-seeking termites

    Article • June 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  32. A Genomic Imprinting Model of Termite Caste Determination: Not Genetic but Epigenetic Inheritance Influences Offspring Caste Fate

    Article • The American Naturalist, June 2018, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

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

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

    Dr Shigeto Dobata, Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  34. Caste-biased movements by termites in isolation

    Article • December 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

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

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2017, Nature

    Yuuka Murakami, Dr Shigeto Dobata, Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  36. Pairing strategy after today's failure: unpaired termites synchronize mate search using photic cycles

    Article • Population Ecology, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2017, PLOS

    Dr Shigeto Dobata, Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  38. Optimizing mating encounters by sexually dimorphic movements

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

    Dr Shigeto Dobata, Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  39. Male same-sex pairing as an adaptive strategy for future reproduction in termites

    Article • Animal Behaviour, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  40. Emergence of intercolonial variation in termite shelter tube patterns and prediction of its underlying mechanism

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, November 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto

  41. Colony-specific architecture of shelter tubes by termites

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto