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Takahisa Miyatake

Takahisa Miyatake

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Ecology and Evolution

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41
Citations
5875
World Ranking
5893
National Ranking
32

Overview

Takahisa Miyatake is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research topics include insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, insect and pesticide research, animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, insect pest control strategies, insect-plant interactions and control, as well as insect behavior and control techniques.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Deep learning-assisted comparative analysis of animal trajectories with DeepHL," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Death feigning as an adaptive anti-predator behaviour: Further evidence for its evolution from artificial selection and natural populations," 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • "Freezing or death feigning? Beetles selected for long death feigning showed different tactics against different predators," 2022, Ecology and Evolution
  • "Amplitude of circadian rhythms becomes weaken in the north, but there is no cline in the period of rhythm in a beetle," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "An empirical test of the bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis: Female red flour beetles avoid extinction via multiple mating," 2021, Ecology and Evolution

Miyatake has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Kentarou Matsumura
  • Ryo Ishihara
  • Edmund Wilson
  • Thomas Morgan
  • George Parker

The scientist's research has been published regularly in several journals, notably:

  • Journal of Ethology
  • Applied Entomology and Zoology
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Best Publications

  • Interactions of mating, egg production and death rates in females of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata

    T Chapman;T Miyatake;H K Smith;L Partridge

  • ERADICATION OF THE MELON FLY, BACTROCERA CUCURBITAE, IN JAPAN: Importance of Behavior, Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution

    Juro Koyama;Hiroyuki Kakinohana;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Is death-feigning adaptive? Heritable variation in fitness difference of death-feigning behaviour

    Takahisa Miyatake;Kohji Katayama;Yukari Takeda;Akiko Nakashima

  • Intralocus Sexual Conflict Unresolved by Sex-Limited Trait Expression

    Tomohiro Harano;Kensuke Okada;Kensuke Okada;Satoshi Nakayama;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Mating-induced inhibition of remating in female Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata

    Takahisa Miyatake;Tracey Chapman;Linda Partridge

  • Pleiotropic antipredator strategies, fleeing and feigning death, correlated with dopamine levels in Tribolium castaneum

    Takahisa Miyatake;Ken Tabuchi;Ken Sasaki;Kensuke Okada

  • Egg Laying Preference, Larval Dispersion, and Cannibalism in Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

    Tsuyoshi Kakimoto;Kenji Fujisaki;Kenji Fujisaki;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Diurnal Periodicity of Death-Feigning in Cylas formicarius (Coleoptera: Brentidae)

    Takahisa Miyatake

  • Effects of temperature on mating duration, sperm transfer and remating frequency in Callosobruchus chinensis

    Masako Katsuki;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Tonically immobilized selfish prey can survive by sacrificing others

    Takahisa Miyatake;Satoshi Nakayama;Yusuke Nishi;Shuhei Nakajima

  • The period gene and allochronic reproductive isolation in Bactrocera cucurbitae.

    Takahisa Miyatake;Akira Matsumoto;Takashi Matsuyama;Hiroki R. Ueda

  • Drop or fly? Negative genetic correlation between death-feigning intensity and flying ability as alternative anti-predator strategies.

    Tatsunori Ohno;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Genetic Changes of Life History and Behavioral Traits during Mass-Rearing in the Melon Fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae)

    Takahisa Miyatake

  • GENETIC CORRELATIONS BETWEEN LIFE-HISTORY AND BEHAVIORAL TRAITS CAN CAUSE REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION.

    Takahisa Miyatake;Toru Shimizu

  • Costs of mating and egg production in female Callosobruchus chinensis.

    Shin Ichi Yanagi;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Effects of Starvation on Death-Feigning in Adults of Cylas formicarius (Coleoptera: Brentidae)

    Takahisa Miyatake

  • Intra-sexual Dimorphism in Male Mandibles and Male Aggressive Behavior in the Broad-Horned Flour Beetle Gnatocerus cornutus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

    Kensuke Okada;Akihiro Miyanoshita;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Genetic trade-off between early fecundity and longevity in Bactrocera cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae).

    Takahisa Miyatake

  • Dispersal and ejaculatory strategies associated with exaggeration of weapon in an armed beetle

    Takashi Yamane;Kensuke Okada;Satoshi Nakayama;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Correlated responses to selection for developmental period in Bactrocera cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae): Time of mating and daily activity rhythms

    Takahisa Miyatake

  • Genetic correlations between weapons, body shape and fighting behaviour in the horned beetle Gnatocerus cornutus.

    Kensuke Okada;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Heritable variation in polyandry in Callosobruchus chinensis

    Tomohiro Harano;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Body-Size Dependent Difference in Death-Feigning Behavior of Adult Callosobruchus chinensis

    Naofumi Hozumi;Takahisa Miyatake

  • A Behavioral Syndrome in the Adzuki Bean Beetle: Genetic Correlation Among Death Feigning, Activity, and Mating Behavior

    Satoshi Nakayama;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Direct effects of polyandry on female fitness in Callosobruchus chinensis

    Tomohiro Harano;Yukio Yasui;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Circadian rhythm and time of mating in Bactrocera cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae) selected for age at reproduction

    Takahisa Miyatake

  • Genetic trade-off between abilities to avoid attack and to mate: a cost of tonic immobility

    Satoshi Nakayama;Takahisa Miyatake

  • Effects of maternal age on reproductive traits and fitness components of the offspring in the bruchid beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)

    Shin Ichi Yanagi;Takahisa Miyatake

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Hosken
David J. Hosken University of Exeter
Kazuki Tsuji
Kazuki Tsuji University of the Ryukyus
Linda Partridge
Linda Partridge Max Planck Society
Tracey Chapman
Tracey Chapman University of East Anglia
Maki Katsuhara
Maki Katsuhara Okayama University
Shinsuke Koike
Shinsuke Koike Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Toru Miura
Toru Miura University of Tokyo
Takahiro Hara
Takahiro Hara Osaka University
Hiroki R. Ueda
Hiroki R. Ueda University of Tokyo
Masakazu Shimada
Masakazu Shimada University of Tokyo

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