Toshihisa Yashiro

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Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Plant Protection, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

External link: http://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/laboratory/karc/introduction/chart/kankyo_area/insect/index.html

昆虫の生態や進化や分類に関する研究を行っています。特に、社会性昆虫であるシロアリや農業害虫を含むウンカの繁殖に関する生態の解明に力を入れています。その他、生物間相互作用（共生、寄生、擬態など）や外来種などについての研究も行っています。国内外で新種の昆虫（シロアリ、アリ）も発見しています。

Enhanced heterozygosity from male meiotic chromosome chains is superseded by hybrid female asexuality in termites

Toshihisa Yashiro, Yi-Kai Tea, Cara Van Der Wal, Tomonari Nozaki, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Simon Hellemans, Kenji Matsuura, Nathan Lo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(51) e2009533118, Dec 21, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Loss of males from mixed-sex societies in termites

Toshihisa Yashiro, Nathan Lo, Kazuya Kobayashi, Tomonari Nozaki, Taro Fuchikawa, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Yusuke Namba, Kenji Matsuura

BMC Biology, 16 96, Sep, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Termite queens close the sperm gates of eggs to switch from sexual to asexual reproduction

Toshihisa Yashiro, Kenji Matsuura

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(48) 17212-17217, Dec, 2014 Peer-reviewed

深層学習による粘着板に捕獲したイネウンカ類の自動認識

高山智光, 矢代敏久, 真田幸代, 桂樹哲雄, 竹谷勝, 杉浦綾

農研機構九州沖縄農業研究センター成果情報(Web), 2021, 2021
On the termite species Neotermes sugioi

(174) 1-6, Sep, 2020 Invited
マルチプレックスPCRによるイネウンカ類3種の簡易識別法の開発

矢代敏久

九州沖縄農業試験研究の成果情報(Web), 2020, 2020
京都市左京区でクロカタビロオサムシを採集

矢代敏久

月刊むし, (574) 40-41, Nov, 2018
大東諸島初記録となるヒゲブトテントウダマシの採集

矢代敏久, 矢代亜由美

さやばね. ニューシリーズ = Sayabane. N.S., (31) 6, Sep, 2018 Peer-reviewed
卵門から見たシロアリの高次系統関係

矢代敏久

昆虫と自然, 53(2) 4-8, Jan, 2018 Invited
Evolution of asexual queen succession system in termites

68(3) 132-141, Apr, 2017 Peer-reviewedInvited
マダラウスバカゲロウの幼虫から羽化したクロウマヅラアシブトコバチ

南波佑介, 矢代敏久

月刊むし, (517) 47, Feb, 2014
四国の剣山でカラフトモモブトハバチを採集

矢代学, 矢代敏久

月刊むし, (505) 55, Feb, 2013
ベニバハナカミキリを岡山大学・津島キャンパス構内で採集

矢代敏久

月刊むし, (484) 44, May, 2011

Fungi from different environments

Kenji Matsuura, Toshihisa Yashiro (Role: Contributor, The cuckoo fungus ‘termite ball’ mimicking termite eggs: a novel insect-fungal association)

Science Publishers, Jan, 2009 (ISBN: 9781578085781)

Queen-destined parthenogenetic daughters as a preadaptation for asexual queen succession in termites

Tomonari Nozaki, Toshihisa Yashiro, Kenji Matsuura

International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI2018), Aug 5, 2018
Genomic imprinting drives the evolution of termite eusociality

Kenji Matsuura, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Kazuya Kobayashi, Toshihisa Yashiro, Edward L. Vargo

International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI2018), Aug 5, 2018
Lost males in mixed-sex termites societies

Toshihisa Yashiro, Nathan Lo, Kazuya Kobayashi, Tomonari Nozaki, Taro Fuchikawa, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Yusuke Namba, Kenji Matsuura

Australasian Evolution Society and Phylomania Combined Conference 2017, Dec, 2017
Sex and asex in termite societies

Toshihisa Yashiro, Kenji Matsuura

XXV International Congress of Entomology (ICE 2016), Sep 29, 2016
Queens close sperm-gates of eggs for asexual reproduction in termites

Toshihisa Yashiro, Kenji Matsuura

International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI14), Jul 14, 2014
Kinship-dependent adjustment of altruistic behavior in a facultatively parthenogenetic termite

Kenji Matsuura, Toshihisa Yashiro

EcoSummit 2007/The 3rd EAFES (East Asian Federation of Ecological Societies) International Congress, May, 2007