2024

García-Acero AM, Batista TM, Souza GFL, Santos ARO, Souza DL, Franco GR, Velásquez-Lozano ME, Yamamoto D, Toki W, Lachance MA, Rosa CA (2024) Description of Millerago gen. nov. based on taxogenomic analysis, with two new species, Millerago phaffii f.a., sp. nov. and Millerago galiae f.a., sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 74: 006565 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006565 

土岐和多瑠, 石濱宣夫, 門司早紀, 松岡史晃, 湯澤宣久, 井口和信, 鈴木智之 (2024) 東京大学北海道演習林のハナカミキリ(鞘翅目カミキリムシ科). 演習林（東大） 70: 13-23 (Toki W, Ishihama N, Monji S, Matsuoka F, Yuzawa N, Iguchi K, Suzuki SN (2024) Fauna of flower longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in the University of Tokyo Hokkaido Forest. Miscellaneous Information of The University of Tokyo Forests 70: 13-23) https://doi.org/10.15083/0002009972

Kajita R, Kajimura H (2024) Wood mice utilize understory vegetation of leafless dead dwarf bamboo culms as a habitat and foraging site. Diversity 16: 458 https://doi.org/10.3390/d16080458

Ichioka Y, Kajimura H (2024) Arboreal or terrestrial: Oviposition site of Zhangixalus frogs affects the thermal function of foam nests. Ecology and Evolution 14: e10926 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10926 プレスリリース1, 2

2023

Jiang ZR, Tanoue M, Masuya H, Smith SM, Cognato AI, Kameyama N, Kuroda K, Kajimura H (2023) Fusarium kuroshium is the primary fungal symbiont of an ambrosia beetle, Euwallacea fornicatus, and can kill mango tree in Japan. Scientific Reports 13: 21634 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48809-8 プレスリリース1, 2

Suzuki H, Kajimura H (2023) How much do field mice prefer dwarf bamboo seeds? Two-choice experiments between seeds of Sasa borealis and several tree species on the forest floor. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10636 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10636 プレスリリース1, 2

Suzuki H, Kajimura H (2023) Utilization of Sasa borealis seeds by Japanese field mouse: discovery of small-seed caching. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1124393 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1124393 プレスリリース1, 2, 3

Urvois T, Perrier C, Roques A, Sauné L, Courtin C, Kajimura H, Hulcr J, Cognato AI, Auger-Rozenberg M-A, Kerdelhué C (2023) The worldwide invasion history of a pest ambrosia beetle inferred using population genomics. Molecular Ecology 32: 4381-4400 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16993

Kishigami M, Matsuoka F, Maeno A, Yamagishi S, Abe H, Toki W (2023) Yeast associated with flower longicorn beetle Leptura ochraceofasciata (Cerambycidae: Lepturinae), with implication for its function in symbiosis. PLOS ONE 18:  e0282351 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282351 プレスリリース1, 2, 3

Yamamoto D, Toki W (2023) Presence of non-symbiotic yeasts in a symbiont-transferring organ of a stag beetle that lacks yeast symbionts found in other stag beetles. Scientific Reports 13: 3726 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30607-x プレスリリース1, 2

Toki W, Togashi K (2023) Different phoretic affinities of Bursaphelenchus mucronatus kolymensis (Nematoda, Aphelenchoididae) to Monochamus sartor urussovii and M. sutor (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Forest Research 28: 225-229 https://doi.org/10.1080/13416979.2022.2156571

2022

Jiang ZR, Morita T, Jikumaru S, Kuroda K, Masuya H, Kajimura H (2022) The role of mycangial fungi associated with ambrosia beetles (Euwallacea interjectus) in fig wilt disease: dual inoculation of Fusarium kuroshium and Ceratocystis ficicola can bring fig saplings to early symptom development. Microorganisms 10: 1912 https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10101912 プレスリリース1, 2

Jiang ZR, Masuya H, Kajimura H (2022) Fungal flora in adult females of the rearing population of ambrosia beetle Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae): does it differ from the wild population? Diversity 14: 535 https://doi.org/10.3390/d14070535 プレスリリース1, 2, 3

Suzuki H, Kashiwagi H, Kajimura H (2022) How does the 120-year cycle mast seeding of dwarf bamboo affect the rodent population? Ecological Processes 11: 43 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-022-00385-x プレスリリース1, 2, 3

Kanzaki N, Kajimura H, Masuya H, Akiba M, Ekino T, Tsujimoto S, Kosaka H (2022) Two new insect-associated tylenchids, Sychnotylenchus hibisci n. sp. and Neoditylenchus xiphydriae n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Anguinidae), from Japan. Nematology 24: 257-282 

https://doi.org/10.1163/15685411-bja10128

Lakatos F, Tuba K, Bender B, Kajimura H, Tóth V (2022) Longer mtDNA fragments provide a better insight into the genetic diversity of the sycamore lace bug, Corythucha ciliata (Say, 1832) (Tingidae, Hemiptera), both in its native and invaded areas. Insects 13: 123 

https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13020123

2021

Kanzaki N, Tsujimoto S, Kajimura H (2021) Bursaphelenchus hibisci n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) isolated from Ernoporus corpulentus (Scolytinae) emerged from dead Hibiscus tiliaceus (Malvaceae) twigs from Okinawa, Japan. Nematology 24: 21-36 

https://doi.org/10.1163/15685411-bja10109

松寺駿, 森照貴, 肘井直樹 (2021) 中小河川におけるコンクリート護岸の設置が魚類群集に及ぼす影響. 応用生態工学 24: 139-151 (Matsutera S, Mori T, Hijii N (2021) Effects of constructing concrete revetments on fish assemblages in small to medium streams. Ecology and Civil Engineering 24: 139-151) https://doi.org/10.3825/ece.21-00004

Jiang ZR, Masuya H, Kajimura H (2021) Novel symbiotic association between Euwallacea ambrosia beetle and Fusarium fungus on fig trees in Japan. Frontiers in Microbiology 12: 725210 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.725210 プレスリリース

Toki W, Aoki D (2021) Nutritional resources of the yeast symbiont cultivated by the lizard beetle Doubledaya bucculenta in bamboos. Scientific Reports 11: 19208 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98733-y プレスリリース1, 2

Ichioka Y, Hijii N (2021) Spawning sites of the Japanese forest green tree frog (Zhangixalus arboreus: Rhacophoridae) in Central Japan. Current Herpetology 40: 151-158 https://doi.org/10.5358/hsj.40.151

Ichioka Y, Hijii N (2021) Raccoon predation on foam nests and adults of the forest green tree frog (Zhangixalus arboreus: Rhacophoridae) in Central Japan. Current Herpetology 40: 129-136 https://doi.org/10.5358/hsj.40.129

Kanzaki N, Ekino T, Kajimura H, Degawa Y (2021) Description of Bursaphelenchus microcarpae n. sp. isolated from Cryphalus abbreviatus emerged from Ficus microcarpa, with a report of B. carpini re-isolation. Nematology 23: 743-759 

https://doi.org/10.1163/15685411-bja10073

Gugliuzzo A, Biedermann PHW, Carrillo D, Castrillo LA, Egonyu JP, Gallego D, Haddi K, Hulcr J, Jactel H, Kajimura H, Kamata N, Meurisse N, Li Y, Oliver JB, Ranger CM, Rassati D, Stelinski LL, Sutherland R, Garzia GT, Wright MG, Biondi A (2021) Recent advances toward the sustainable management of invasive Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles. Journal of Pest Science 94: 615-637 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-021-01382-3

Yoshida T, Kusunoki Y, Fukano Y, Hijii N (2021) Vertical distribution of arthropod assemblages and the effects of weather conditions on arthropod rain in a temperate conifer forest. Frontiers in Forest and Global Change 4:672601 https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.672601

Lin W, Park S, Jiang ZR, Ji YC, Ernstsons AS, Li JJ, Li Y, Hulcr J (2021) Native or invasive? The red-haired pine bark beetle Hylurgus ligniperda (Fabricius) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in East Asia. Forests 12: 950 https://doi.org/10.3390/f12070950

Nakashima H, Matsuda Y, Hijii N (2021) An ectomycorrhizal fungus, Cenococcum geophilum, in a coastal pine forest has a high tolerance for an insecticide used to control pine wilt disease. Landscape and Ecological Engineering 17: 401-409 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11355-021-00455-w

Dayi M, Kanzaki N, Sun S, Ide T, Masuya H, Okabe K, Kajimura H, Kikuchi T (2021) Additional description and genome analyses of Caenorhabditis auriculariae representing the basal lineage of genus Caenorhabditis. Scientific Reports 11: 6720 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85967-z

Toki W (2021) A single case study of mycetangia-associated fungi and their abilities to assimilate wood-associated carbon sources in the ship timber beetle Elateroides flabellicornis (Coleoptera: Lymexylidae) in Japan. Symbiosis 83: 173-181 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-021-00745-9 

Toki W, Chiu MC, Huang CG, Wu WJ (2021) Larval host plants of two lizard beetles in the genus Tetraphala (Coleoptera, Erotylidae, Languriinae, Languriini) from Taiwan, with a host plant list of Languriini. Entomological Science 24: 103-108 

https://doi.org/10.1111/ens.12452 

2020

Miyazaki Y, Toki W (2020) Time-dependent oviposition deterrence by an oviposition mark in a fungus-farming lizard beetle. The Science of Nature 107: 53 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-020-01710-0 プレスリリース

Sakai K, Yamaguchi A, Tsutsumi S, Kawai Y, Tsuzuki S, Suzuki H, Jindou S, Suzuki Y, Kajimura H, Kato M, Shimizu M (2020) Characterization of FsXEG12A from the cellulose-degrading ectosymbiotic fungus Fusarium spp. strain EI cultured by the ambrosia beetle. AMB Express 10: 96 

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-020-01030-6

Toki W (2020) Two new species of the genus Anisoderomorpha Arrow, 1925 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Languriinae). Zootaxa 4779: 563-572 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4779.4.7

Takashina K, Chuma I, Kajimura H, Kameyama N, Goto C, Kuroda K (2020) Pathogenicity and distribution of Fusarium solani isolates associated with Erythrina decline in Japan. Plant Disease 104: 731-742 https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-01-19-0044-RE

Cognato AI, Sari G, Smith SM, Beaver RA, Li Y, Hulcr J, Jordal BH, Kajimura H, Lin CS, Pham HT, Singh S, Sittichaya W (2020) The essential role of taxonomic expertise in the creation of DNA databases for the identification and delimitation of Southeast Asian ambrosia beetle species (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 27 

https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00027

2019

Hanya G, Morishima K, Koide T, Otani Y,Hongo S, Honda T, Okamura H, Higo Y, Hattori M, Kondo Y, Kurihara Y, Jin S, Otake A, Shiroisihi I, Takakuwa T, Yamamoto H, Suzuki H, Kajimura K, Hayakawa T, Suzuki-Hashido N, Nakano T (2019) Host selection of hematophagous leeches (Haemadipsa japonica): Implications for iDNA studies. Ecological Research 34: 842-855 https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12059

Ayabe Y, Yoshida T, Kanasashi T, Hayashi A, Fukushi A, Hijii N, Takenaka C (2019) Web-building spider Nephila clavata (Nephilidae: Arachnida) can represent 137Cs contamination of arthropod communities and bioavailable 137Cs in forest soils at Fukushima, Japan. Science of the Total Environment 687: 1176-1185 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.158

Toki W, Matsuo S, Pham HT, Meleng P, Lee CY (2019) Heads or tails: exaggerated morphologies in relation to the use of large bamboo internodes in two lizard beetles, Doubledaya ruficollis and Oxylanguria acutipennis (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Languriinae). The Science of Nature 106: 50 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-019-1645-6

Jiang ZR, Kinoshita S, Sasaki O, Cognato AI, Kajimura H (2019) Non-destructive observation of the mycangia of Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) using X-ray computed tomography. Entomological Science 22: 173-181 https://doi.org/10.1111/ens.12353

2018

Shigetoh H, Yoshitake H, Hosoya T, Toki W (2018) Leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) new to Gaja-jima Is., the Tokara Isls., north Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Elytra New Series 8: 115-117

Yoshitake H, Hosoya T, Toki W, Katayama M (2018) Curculionid weevils (Coleoptera) new to Gajajima Is., the Tokara Isls., north Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Elytra New Series 8: 19-23

Hanya G, Otani Y, Hongo S, Honda T, Okamura H, Higo Y (2018) Activity of wild Japanese macaques in Yakushima revealed by camera trapping: Patterns with respect to season, daily period and rainfall. PLOS ONE 13: e0190631 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190631

Togashi K, Toki W (2018) Effects of inter-subspecies hybridization of non-native Monochamus alternatus alternatus and native M. a. endai (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on the induction of larval diapause and adult body size. Applied Entomology and Zoology 53: 29-40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-017-0526-8

2017

Ito M, Kajimura H (2017) Landscape-scale genetic differentiation of a mycangial fungus associated with the ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Japan. Ecology and Evolution 7: 9203-9221

Ayabe Y, Hijii N, Takenaka C (2017) Effects of local-scale decontamination in a secondary forest contaminated after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. Environmental Pollution 228: 344-353

Matsushita A, Yoshida T, Hijii N, Takenaka C (2017) Changes in the chemical compositions of leaf litter in the canopy of a Japanese cedar plantation. Journal of Forest Research 22: 256-260

Toki W, Pham HT, Hori M (2017) Pupa of arboreal tiger beetle Neocollyris similis (Lense) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) from internode cavity of a reed. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71: 202-203

Kondo T, Mizutani M, Hijii N (2017) Small patches of broadleaf trees influence nest-site selection and reproductive performance of two tit species (Paridae) in a Japanaese cedar plantation. Journal of Forest Research 22: 15-21

Ayabe Y, Minoura T, Hijii N (2017) Oviposition site selection by a lepidopteran leafminer in response to heterogeneity of leaf surface conditions: structural traits and microclimates. Ecological Entomology 42: 294-305

Katagiri N, Hijii N (2017) Effects of sika deer browsing on soil mesofauna in a thinned Japanese cypress plantation. Journal of Forest Research 22: 169-176

2016

Kawasaki Y, Schuler H, Stauffer C, Lakatos F, Kajimura H (2016) Wolbachia endosymbionts in haplodiploid and diploid scolytine beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Environmental Microbiology Reports 8: 680-688

Ayabe Y, Hijii N (2016) Aviodance of parasitoid attack is associated with the spatial use within a leaf by a lepidopteran leafminer. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 161: 39-49

Nakashima H, Eguchi N, Uesugi T, Yamashita N, Matsuda Y (2016) Effect of ectomycorrhizal composition on survival and growth of Pinus thunbergii seedlings varying in resistance to the pine wilt nematode. Trees 30: 475-481

Kanzaki N, Kajimura H, Okabe K (2016) Rhabditidoides aegus n. sp. an associate of stag beetles and sap flow in Japan. Nematology 18: 195-208

2015

Cognato AI, Hoebeke ER, Kajimura H, Smith SM (2015) History of the exotic ambrosia beetles Euwallacea interjectus and Euwallacea validus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Xyleborini) in the United States. Journal of Economic Entomology 108: 1129-1135

Ayabe Y, Minoura T, Hijii N (2015) Plasticity in resource use by the leafminer moth Phyllocnistis sp. in response to variations in host plant resources over space and time. Journal of Forest Research 20: 213-221

Yamaoka Y, Kuroki D, Matsutani K, Aoyama T, Masuya H, Kajimura H (2015) Pathogenicity of Fusarium solani associated with a bark beetle, Scolytogenes birosimensis, to Pittosporum tobira. Journal of Forest Research 20: 514-521

Ayabe Y, Kanasashi T, Hijii N, Takenaka C (2015) Relationship between radiocesium contamination and the contents of various elements in the web spider Nephila clavata (Nephilidae: Arachnida). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 150: 228-235

Katagiri N, Hijii N (2015) Effects of sika deer browsing on the arthropod communities on enderstory vegetation in a thinned Japanese cypress plantation. Journal of Forest Research 20: 347-356

Kanasashi T, Sugiura Y, Hijii N, Takenaka C, Umemura M (2015) Radiocesium distribution in sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) in Eastern Japan: translocation from needles to pollen. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 139: 398-406

2014

Kawasaki Y, Ito H, Kajimura H (2014) Equilibrium frequency of endosymbionts in multiple infections based on the balance between vertical transmission and cytoplasmic incompatibility. PLOS ONE 9: e94900

Oguri H, Yoshida T, Nakamura A, Soga M, Hijii N (2014) Vertical stratification of spider assemblages in two conifer plantations in central Japan. Journal of Arachnology 42: 34-43

Ayabe Y, Kanasashi T, Hijii N, Takenaka C (2014) Radiocesium contamination of the web spider Nephila clavata (Nephilidae: Arachnida) 1.5 years after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 127: 105-110

2013

Ninomiya S, Mikata K, Kajimura H, Kawasaki H (2013) Two novel ascomycetous yeast species, Wickerhamomyces scolytoplatypi sp. nov. and Cyberlindnera xylebori sp. nov., isolated from ambrosia beetle galleries. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 63: 2706-2711

Kajii C, Morita T, Jikumaru S, Kajimura H, Yamaoka Y, Kuroda K (2013) Xylem dysfunction in Ficus carica infected with wilt fungus Ceratocystis ficicola and the role of the vector beetle Euwallacea interjectus. International Association of Wood Anatomists Journal 34: 301-312

Yoshida T, Hijii N (2013) The body-size distribution of arboreal collembolans in relation to the vertical structure of a Japanese cedar plantation. Applied Soil Ecology 83: 116-124

Yoshida T, Takito Y, Soga M, Hijii N (2013) Responses of litter invertebrate communities to litter manipulation in a Japanese conifer plantation. Acta Oecologica 51: 74-81

2012

Kobune S, Kajimura H, Masuya H, Kubono T (2012) Symbiotic fungal flora in leaf galls induced by Illiciomyia yukawai (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and in its mycangia. Microbial Ecology 63: 619-627

Masuya H, Kajimura H, Tomisawa N, Yamaoka Y (2012) Fungi associated with Scolytogenes birosimensis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) infesting Pittosporum tobira. Environmental Entomology 41: 255-264

2011

Yoshida T, Hijii N (2011) Microarthropod colonization of litter in arboreal and soil environments of a Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) plantation. Journal of Forest Research 16: 46-54

Fukumoto H, Kajimura H (2011) Effects of asynchronous acorn production by co-occurring Quercus trees on resource utilization by acorn-feeding insects. Journal of Forest Research 16: 62-67

Ishikawa H (2011) Effects of dung beetles on seedling emergence from herbaceous seeds in the dung of sika deer (Cervus nippon) in a temperate Japanese grassland ecosystem. Ecological Research 26: 725-734

Ishikawa H (2011) Seed contents of sika deer (Cervus nippon) dung and the fate of seeds in a temperate short grassland in an urban park in Japan. Journal of Ecology and Field Biology 34: 295-305

2010

Kawasaki Y, Ito M, Miura K, Kajimura H (2010) Superinfection of five Wolbachia in the alnus ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) (Coleoptera: Curculiondae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 100: 231-239

Ishikawa H (2010) Effects of ingestion of seeds by sika deer (Cervus nippon) and dung presence on their germination in a herbaceous community. Ecological Research 25: 591-598