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Overview

Kazuki Tsuji is affiliated with the University of the Ryukyus in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a range of topics including Plant and animal studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect and Pesticide Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kazuki Tsuji include:

  • Intraspecific Adaptation Load: A Mechanism for Species Coexistence, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Exotic Ants of the Asia-Pacific: Invasion, National Response, and Ongoing Needs, 2021, Annual Review of Entomology
  • Social Evolution With Decoupling of Multiple Roles of Biogenic Amines Into Different Phenotypes in Hymenoptera, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Deformed Wing Virus in Two Widespread Invasive Ants: Geographical Distribution, Prevalence, and Phylogeny, 2020, Viruses
  • Resilience of native ant community against invasion of exotic ants after anthropogenic disturbances of forest habitats, 2022, Ecology and Evolution

Kazuki Tsuji frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Kaori Tsurui-Sato, Haruki Tatsuta, Kazuya Kobayashi, Shigeto Dobata, and Mitsuho Katoh.

Their publications appear regularly in scientific venues such as Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Viruses, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Queen Succession Through Asexual Reproduction in Termites

    Kenji Matsuura;Edward L. Vargo;Kazutaka Kawatsu;Paul E. Labadie

  • Ant Reproductive Strategies

    Jürgen Heinze;Kazuki Tsuji

  • Queen and worker policing in the monogynous and monandrous ant, Diacamma sp.

    Noritsugu Kikuta;Kazuki Tsuji

  • Secondary polygyny by inbred wingless sexuals in the dolichoderine ant Technomyrmex albipes

    Katsusuke Yamauchi;Tokiko Furukawa;Kyoichi Kinomura;Hidetsune Takamine

  • Comparative transcriptomics reveals the conserved building blocks involved in parallel evolution of diverse phenotypic traits in ants

    Claire Morandin;Mandy M. Y. Tin;Sílvia Abril;Crisanto Gómez

  • Production of females by parthenogenesis in the ant,Cerapachys biroi

    K. Tsuji;K. Yamauchi

  • Asian weaver ants, Oecophylla smaragdina, and their repelling of pollinators

    Kazuki Tsuji;Kazuki Tsuji;Ahsol Hasyim;Harlion;Koji Nakamura

  • Obligate parthenogenesis and reproductive division of labor in the Japanese queenless ant Pristomyrmex pungens

    K. Tsuji

  • Regulation of worker reproduction by direct physical contact in the ant Diacamma sp. from Japan.

    Kazuki Tsuji;Kaori Egashira;Bert Hölldobler

  • Reproductive conflict among ant workers in Diacamma sp. from Japan: dominance and oviposition in the absence of the gamergate

    C. Peeters;K. Tsuji

  • Reproductive Conflicts and Levels of Selection in the Ant Pristomyrmex pungens: Contextual Analysis and Partitioning of Covariance

    Kazuki Tsuji

  • Dimorphic ergatoid males and their reproductive behavior in the ponerine ant Hypoponera bondroiti

    K. Yamauchi;Y. Kimura;B. Corbara;K. Kinomura

  • Lifespan and reproduction in a queenless ant

    K. Tsuji;K. Nakata;J. Heinze

  • Indices of reproductive skew depend on average reproductive success

    Kazuki Tsuji;Nobuyuki Tsuji

  • Evolution of life history strategies in ants : variation in queen number and mode of colony founding

    Kazuki Tsuji;Nobuyuki Tsuji

  • Colony level sex allocation in a polygynous and polydomous ant

    Kazuki Tsuji;Katsusuke Yamauchi

  • Reproductive division of labour related to age in the japanese queenless ant, Pristomyrmex pungens

    Kazuki Tsuji

  • Cheater genotypes in the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus.

    Shigeto Dobata;Tomonori Sasaki;Hideaki Mori;Eisuke Hasegawa

  • Nest relocations in the Japanese queenless ant Pristomyrmex pungens Mayr. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    K. Tsuji

  • Social dominance and reproductive differentiation mediated by dopaminergic signaling in a queenless ant

    Yasukazu Okada;Ken Sasaki;Satoshi Miyazaki;Hiroyuki Shimoji

  • Lycaenid Caterpillar Secretions Manipulate Attendant Ant Behavior

    Masaru K. Hojo;Masaru K. Hojo;Naomi E. Pierce;Kazuki Tsuji

Frequent Co-Authors

Toru Miura
Toru Miura University of Tokyo
Edward L. Vargo
Edward L. Vargo Texas A&M University
Masakazu Shimada
Masakazu Shimada University of Tokyo
Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler Arizona State University
Johan Billen
Johan Billen KU Leuven
Alexander S. Mikheyev
Alexander S. Mikheyev Australian National University
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Daniel J. C. Kronauer
Daniel J. C. Kronauer Rockefeller University
Takahisa Miyatake
Takahisa Miyatake Okayama University
Shuji Shigenobu
Shuji Shigenobu National Institute for Basic Biology

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