Ayako Gotoh

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Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Biology, Konan University

Degree: 博士（農学）

Researcher number: 70734680
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801012070980459
researchmap Member ID: B000303585

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Research Interests

Research Areas

Life sciences / Ecology and environmental science /

Research History

Apr, 2019 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Biology, KONAN UNIVERSITY
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2019

講師, 甲南大学理工学部生物学科

Education

Apr, 1998 - Mar, 2002

Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Papers

Evolution of meconium removal from cocoons in ants

A. Gotoh, F. Ito, R. Mizuno, Y. Shimamoto, K. Kinomura, E. Katsura, R. Hashim

Insectes Sociaux, Aug 14, 2023
Near-anoxia induces immobilization and sustains viability of sperm stored in ant queens

Ayako Gotoh, Mika Takeshima, Ken-ichi Mizutani

Scientific Reports, 13(1), Mar 1, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Proteomic analysis of spermathecal fluid reveals factors related to long-term sperm storage in ant queens

Ayako Gotoh

bioRxiv, Nov 4, 2022 Lead authorCorresponding author
Near-anoxia induces immobilisation and sustains viability of sperm in ant queens: Novel insights into mechanisms of prolonged sperm storage

Ayako Gotoh, Mika Takeshima, Ken-ichi Mizutani

bioRxiv, Sep 12, 2022
Morphology of immatures of the thelytokous ant, Monomorium triviale Wheeler (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini) with descriptions of the extraordinary last-instar queen larvae

NAOTO IDOGAWA, AYAKO GOTOH, SHIGETO DOBATA

Zootaxa, 5105(2) 253-268, Mar 3, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Caste differentiation of spermatheca and organs related to sperm use and oviposition in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Ayako Gotoh, Ken Sasaki

Apidologie, 52(1) 262-271, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Transcriptome characterization of male accessory glands in ants to identify molecules involved in their reproductive success

A. Gotoh, S. Shigenobu, K. Yamaguchi, S. Kobayashi, F. Ito, K. Tsuji

Insect Molecular Biology, 27(2) 212-220, Apr 1, 2018
Journey of sperms from production by males to storage by queens in Crematogaster osakensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Ayako Gotoh, Koudai Furukawa

Journal of Insect Physiology, 105 95-101, Feb 1, 2018
Transcriptome profiling of the spermatheca identifies genes potentially involved in the long-term sperm storage of ant queens

Ayako Gotoh, Shuji Shigenobu, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Satoru Kobayashi, Fuminori Ito, Kazuki Tsuji

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 7(1) 5972, Jul, 2017
Social structure of the polygynous ant, Crematogaster osakensis

A. Gotoh, M. Dansho, S. Dobata, Y. Ikeshita, F. Ito

INSECTES SOCIAUX, 64(1) 123-131, Feb, 2017
Degeneration patterns of the worker spermatheca during morphogenesis in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Ayako Gotoh, Johan Billen, Rosli Hashim, Fuminori Ito

EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT, 18(2) 96-104, Mar, 2016
Vestigial spermatheca morphology in honeybee workers, Apis cerana and Apis mellifera, from Japan

Ayako Gotoh, Fuminori Ito, Johan Billen

APIDOLOGIE, 44(2) 133-143, Mar, 2013
Histological study of the spermatheca in three thelytokous parthenogenetic ant species, Pristomyrmex punctatus, Pyramica membranifera and Monomorium triviale (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Ayako Gotoh, Johan Billen, Kazuki Tsuji, Tomonori Sasaki, Fuminori Ito

ACTA ZOOLOGICA, 93(2) 200-207, Apr, 2012
Testes degeneration in ants: a histological study of Gnamptogenys bicolor

Diane Allard, Fuminori Ito, Yohsuke Aikawa, Ayako Gotoh, Johan Billen

ACTA ZOOLOGICA, 92(4) 372-376, Oct, 2011
Thelytokous parthenogenesis by queens in the dacetine ant Pyramica membranifera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Fuminori Ito, Yoshifumi Touyama, Ayako Gotoh, Shungo Kitahiro, Johan Billen

NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, 97(8) 725-728, Aug, 2010
Evolution of specialized spermatheca morphology in ant queens: Insight from comparative developmental biology between ants and polistine wasps

Ayako Gotoh, Johan Billen, Rosli Hashim, Fuminori Ito

ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT, 38(6) 521-525, Nov, 2009
Comparison of spermatheca morphology between reproductive and non-reproductive females in social wasps

Ayako Gotoh, Johan Billen, Rosh Hashim, Fuminori Ito

ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT, 37(3) 199-209, May, 2008
Seasonal cycle of colony structure in the Ponerine ant Pachycondyla chinensis in western Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

A. Gotoh, F. Ito

INSECTES SOCIAUX, 55(1) 98-104, Feb, 2008
Reproduction by queens and gamergates in the Oriental ponerine ant Pachycondyla (= Ectomomyrmex) leeuwenhoeki var. sumatrensis Forel.

Ito, F, Ikeshita, Y, Gotoh, A, Hashim, R

Journal of Science and Technology in the Tropics, 2007 Peer-reviewed
Apoptotic wing degeneration and formation of an altruism-regulating glandular appendage (gemma) in the ponerine ant Diacamma sp from Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae)

A Gotoh, S Sameshima, K Tsuji, T Matsumoto, T Miura

DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION, 215(2) 69-77, Feb, 2005

Misc.

アリ科女王の長期間にわたる精子貯蔵メカニズム

後藤彩子

比較生理生化学, 35(3) 150-157, Dec, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
昆虫におけるメスの精子貯蔵器官の機能に関わる分子

後藤彩子

甲南大学紀要. 理工学編, (1) 1-16, Jan, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Ants collected in Mt.Iinoyama, Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Bulletin of the Biological Society of Kagawa, 34(34) 59-62, 2007 Peer-reviewed
香川県からスズバチネジレバネとスズメバチネジレバネを記録

木船悌嗣, 倉橋伴知, 後藤彩子, 段床稔, 伊藤文紀

四国虫報, 40 25, 2006

Books and Other Publications

外来アリのはなし

(Role: Contributor, 第2章増殖マシンとしてのアリ)

朝倉書店, May, 2020

Research Projects

女王アリの長期間の精子貯蔵に関わる受精嚢内微小環境の解析

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

後藤彩子
Identification of molecules related to long-term sperm storage in ant queens

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

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