Hidetoshi Ota

Overview

Best Publications

• The conservation status of the world's reptiles

  Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  1119
  Citations

• Geographic patterns of endemism and speciation in amphibians and reptiles of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, with special reference to their paleogeographical implications

  Hidetoshi Ota

  400
  Citations

• The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

  Michael S. Engel;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Gimo M. Daniel;Pablo M. Dellapé

  343
  Citations

• The Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a Snake (Dinodon semicarinatus) Mitochondrial Genome With Two Identical Control Regions

  Yoshinori Kumazawa;Hidetoshi Ota;Mutsumi Nishida;Tomowo Ozawa

  296
  Citations

• Gene rearrangements in snake mitochondrial genomes: highly concerted evolution of control-region-like sequences duplicated and inserted into a tRNA gene cluster.

  Y Kumazawa;H Ota;M Nishida;T Ozawa

  248
  Citations

• Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review

  Hinrich Kaiser;Brian I. Crother;Christopher M.R Kelly;Luca Luiselli

  199
  Citations

• Accommodating Heterogenous Rates of Evolution in Molecular Divergence Dating Methods: An Example Using Intercontinental Dispersal of Plestiodon (Eumeces) Lizards

  Matthew C. Brandley;Matthew C. Brandley;Yuezhao Wang;Xianguang Guo;Adrián Nieto Montes de Oca

  177
  Citations

• Different origins of bird and reptile sex chromosomes inferred from comparative mapping of chicken Z-linked genes.

  A. Kawai;C. Nishida-Umehara;J. Ishijima;Y. Tsuda

  148
  Citations

• Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

  Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  130
  Citations

• Inference of the Protokaryotypes of Amniotes and Tetrapods and the Evolutionary Processes of Microchromosomes from Comparative Gene Mapping

  Yoshinobu Uno;Chizuko Nishida;Hiroshi Tarui;Satoshi Ishishita

  130
  Citations

• The ZW sex chromosomes of Gekko hokouensis (Gekkonidae, Squamata) represent highly conserved homology with those of avian species.

  Aya Kawai;Junko Ishijima;Chizuko Nishida;Ayumi Kosaka

  127
  Citations

• Taxonomic Relationships within the Pan-Oriental Narrow-mouth Toad Microhyla ornata as Revealed by mtDNA Analysis (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae)

  Masafumi Matsui;Hiroharu Ito;Tomohiko Shimada;Hidetoshi Ota

  124
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• Phylogenetic Relationships of the Family Agamidae (Reptilia: Iguania) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

  Masanao Honda;Hidetoshi Ota;Mari Kobayashi;Jarujin Mari Nabhitabhata

  109
  Citations

• Phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships of the Polypedates leucomystax complex (Amphibia)

  Norihiro Kuraishi;Masafumi Matsui;Amir Hamidy;Daicus M. Belabut

  99
  Citations

• Multiple invasions of the Ryukyu Archipelago by Oriental frogs of the subgenus Odorrana with phylogenetic reassessment of the related subgenera of the genus Rana

  Masafumi Matsui;Tomohiko Shimada;Hidetoshi Ota;Tomoko Tanaka-Ueno;Tomoko Tanaka-Ueno

  99
  Citations

• Phylogenetic Relationships, Character Evolution, and Biogeography of the Subfamily Lygosominae (Reptilia: Scincidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

  Masanao Honda;Hidetoshi Ota;Mari Kobayashi;Jarujin Nabhitabhata

  95
  Citations

• The Current Geographic Faunal Pattern of Reptiles and Amphibians of the Ryukyu Archipelago and Adjacent Regions.

  Hidetoshi Ota

  87
  Citations

• The phylogenetic systematics of blue-tailed skinks (Plestiodon) and the family Scincidae

  Matthew C. Brandley;Hidetoshi Ota;Tsutomu Hikida;Adrián Nieto Montes De Oca

  85
  Citations

• Phylogenetic Relationships of the Asian Box Turtles of the Genus Cuora sensu lato (Reptilia: Bataguridae) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

  Masanao Honda;Yuichirou Yasukawa;Ren Hirayama;Hidetoshi Ota

  84
  Citations

• Factors affecting nesting beach selection by loggerhead turtles ( Caretta caretta ): a multiple regression approach

  Akira Kikukawa;Naoki Kamezaki;Hidetoshi Ota

  82
  Citations

• GENETIC VARIATION IN THE INDIAN RICE FROG, RANA LIMNOCHARIS (AMPHIBIA: ANURA), IN TAIWAN, AS REVEALED BY ALLOZYME DATA

  Mamoru Toda;Mamoru Toda;Mutsumi Nishida;Masafumi Matsui;Kuang-Yang Lue

  75
  Citations

• Geographic Variation and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Mauremys mutica (Cantor, 1842) (Reptilia: Bataguridae), with Description of a New Subspecies from the Southern Ryukyus, Japan

  Yuichirou Yasukawa;Hidetoshi Ota;John B. Iverson

  75
  Citations