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Kazunori Yoshizawa

Kazunori Yoshizawa

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Kazunori Yoshizawa is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan. Their research spans multiple areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling

Yoshizawa's primary research topics focus on:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fossil Insects in Amber
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Study of Mite Species
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Hemiptera Insect Studies

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Yoshizawa illustrate their research interests and academic contributions:

  • †Cormopsocidae: A new family of the suborder Trogiomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea) from Burmese amber, 2020, Entomological Science
  • Phylogenomics of Parasitic and Nonparasitic Lice (Insecta: Psocodea): Combining Sequence Data and Exploring Compositional Bias Solutions in Next Generation Data Sets, 2020, Systematic Biology
  • Brazilian cave heritage under siege, 2022, Science
  • Mitochondrial genomes within bark lice (Insecta: Psocodea: Psocomorpha) reveal novel gene rearrangements containing phylogenetic signal, 2021, Systematic Entomology
  • New psocids (Psocodea: Prionoglarididae, Psyllipsocidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber deposits, 2021, Cretaceous Research

Yoshizawa has published frequently in these scientific venues:

  • Entomological Science
  • Zootaxa
  • Arthropod Structure & Development
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Journal of Morphology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Charles Lienhard
  • Yoshitaka Kamimura
  • Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
  • Zixin Cheng
  • Jun Abe

Best Publications

  • Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

    Bernhard Misof;Shanlin Liu;Karen Meusemann;Ralph S. Peters

  • Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects.

    Kevin P. Johnson;Christopher H. Dietrich;Frank Friedrich;Rolf G. Beutel

  • Multiple origins of parasitism in lice

    Kevin P. Johnson;Kazunori Yoshizawa;Kazunori Yoshizawa;Vincent Stuart Smith

  • Mitochondrial genome deletions and minicircles are common in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera).

    Stephen L. Cameron;Stephen L. Cameron;Kazunori Yoshizawa;Atsushi Mizukoshi;Michael F. Whiting

  • Phylogenetic position of Phthiraptera (Insecta: Paraneoptera) and elevated rate of evolution in mitochondrial 12S and 16S rDNA

    Kazunori Yoshizawa;Kevin P Johnson

  • Symbiotic bacteria associated with stomach discs of human lice

    Kayoko Sasaki-Fukatsu;Ryuichi Koga;Naruo Nikoh;Kazunori Yoshizawa

  • Phylogenetic analysis of paraneopteran orders (Insecta: Neoptera) based on forewing base structure, with comments on monophyly of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera)

    Kazunori Yoshizawa;Toyohei Saigusa

  • Aligned 18S for Zoraptera (Insecta): phylogenetic position and molecular evolution.

    Kazunori Yoshizawa;Kevin P. Johnson

  • Morphology of male genitalia in lice and their relatives and phylogenetic implications

    Kazunori Yoshizawa;Kazunori Yoshizawa;Kevin P. Johnson

  • Phylogeny and higher classification of suborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: 'Psocoptera')

    Kazunori Yoshizawa

  • Monophyletic Polyneoptera recovered by wing base structure

    Kazunori Yoshizawa

  • Female penis, male vagina, and their correlated evolution in a cave insect

    Kazunori Yoshizawa;Rodrigo L. Ferreira;Yoshitaka Kamimura;Charles Lienhard

  • MORPHOLOGY OF PSOCOMORPHA (PSOCODEA: 'PSOCOPTERA')

    Kazunori Yoshizawa

  • Molecular systematics of the suborder Trogiomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’)

    Kazunori Yoshizawa;Charles Lienhard;Kevin P. Johnson

  • Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K–Pg boundary

    Vincent S. Smith;Tom Ford;Kevin P. Johnson;Paul C. D. Johnson

  • The Zoraptera problem: evidence for Zoraptera + Embiodea from the wing base

    Kazunori Yoshizawa

  • Phylogenomics of Parasitic and Nonparasitic Lice (Insecta: Psocodea): Combining Sequence Data and Exploring Compositional Bias Solutions in Next Generation Data Sets.

    Robert S de Moya;Kazunori Yoshizawa;Kimberly K O Walden;Andrew D Sweet

  • In search of the sister group of the true lice : A systematic review of booklice and their relatives, with an updated checklist of Liposcelididae (Insecta: Psocodea)

    Kazunori Yoshizawa;Charles Lienhard

  • A systematic revision of Japanese Trichadenotecnum Enderlein (Psocodea:'Psocoptera':Psocidae:Ptyctini), with redefinition and subdivision of the genus

    Kazunori Yoshizawa

  • Bacterial endosymbiont of the slender pigeon louse Columbicola columbae

    Takema Fukatsu;Ryuichi Koga;Wendy A. Smith;Kohjiiro Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin P. Johnson
Kevin P. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Karen Meusemann
Karen Meusemann University of Freiburg
Bernhard Misof
Bernhard Misof Universität Hamburg
Xin Zhou
Xin Zhou China Agricultural University
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Stephen L. Cameron
Stephen L. Cameron Purdue University West Lafayette
Xun Xu
Xun Xu Beijing Genomics Institute
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute
Jun Wang
Jun Wang University of Central Florida

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