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Ecology and Evolution
Japan
2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
7780
World Ranking
4466
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Toru Miura is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Insect and Pesticide Research

Their recent papers are:

  • Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: Gene duplication facilitates social evolution, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The making of the defensive caste: Physiology, development, and evolution of the soldier differentiation in termites, 2020, Evolution & Development
  • Social Evolution With Decoupling of Multiple Roles of Biogenic Amines Into Different Phenotypes in Hymenoptera, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Expressions of conventional vitellogenin and vitellogenin-like A in worker brains are associated with a nursing task in a ponerine ant, 2020, Insect Molecular Biology
  • Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying the Differentiation of Neotenic Reproductives in Termites: Partial Release From Arrested Development, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kohei Oguchi
  • Hisanori Kohtsuka
  • Mayuko Nakamura
  • Yoshinobu Hayashi
  • Kiyoto Maekawa

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as:

  • ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
  • Evolution & Development
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Zoology
  • Organisms Diversity & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • Aphid polyphenisms: trans-generational developmental regulation through viviparity.

    Kota Ogawa;Toru Miura

  • Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein

    Takuma Hashimoto;Daiki D. Horikawa;Daiki D. Horikawa;Daiki D. Horikawa;Yuki Saito;Hirokazu Kuwahara;Hirokazu Kuwahara

  • Developmental origin and evolution of bacteriocytes in the aphid-Buchnera symbiosis.

    Christian Braendle;Toru Miura;Ryan Bickel;Alexander W Shingleton

  • The Evolutionary History of Termites as Inferred from 66 Mitochondrial Genomes

    Thomas Bourguignon;Nathan Lo;Stephen L. Cameron;Jan Šobotník

  • A comparison of parthenogenetic and sexual embryogenesis of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea).

    Toru Miura;Christian Braendle;Alexander Shingleton;Geoffroy Sisk

  • Juvenile hormone titers and caste differentiation in the damp-wood termite Hodotermopsis sjostedti (Isoptera, Termopsidae).

    Richard Cornette;Hiroki Gotoh;Shigeyuki Koshikawa;Toru Miura

  • Developmental link between sex and nutrition; doublesex regulates sex-specific mandible growth via juvenile hormone signaling in stag beetles.

    Hiroki Gotoh;Hitoshi Miyakawa;Asano Ishikawa;Yuki Ishikawa

  • Developmental regulation of caste-specific characters in social-insect polyphenism.

    Toru Miura

  • Gene up-regulation in response to predator kairomones in the water flea, Daphnia pulex

    Hitoshi Miyakawa;Maki Imai;Naoki Sugimoto;Yuki Ishikawa

  • A mutation in the receptor Methoprene-tolerant alters juvenile hormone response in insects and crustaceans

    Hitoshi Miyakawa;Kenji Toyota;Kenji Toyota;Ikumi Hirakawa;Yukiko Ogino;Yukiko Ogino

  • Wing development genes of the pea aphid and differential gene expression between winged and unwinged morphs.

    J. A. Brisson;A. Ishikawa;T. Miura

  • Juvenile Hormone Regulates Extreme Mandible Growth in Male Stag Beetles

    Hiroki Gotoh;Richard Cornette;Shigeyuki Koshikawa;Yasukazu Okada

  • Soldier caste-specific gene expression in the mandibular glands of Hodotermopsis japonica (Isoptera: Termopsidae)

    Toru Miura;Azusa Kamikouchi;Miyuki Sawata;Hideaki Takeuchi

  • Phylogenetic Relationships among Subfamilies in Higher Termites (Isoptera: Termitidae) Based on Mitochondrial Coii Gene Sequences

    Toru Miura;Kiyoto Maekawa;Osamu Kitade;Takuya Abe

  • Comprehensive survey of developmental genes in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: frequent lineage‐specific duplications and losses of developmental genes

    S. Shigenobu;S. Shigenobu;S. Shigenobu;R. D. Bickel;J. A. Brisson;T. Butts

  • Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Nasute Termite Genus Nasutitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Pacific Tropics

    Toru Miura;Yves Roisin;Tadao Matsumoto

  • Social interactions affecting caste development through physiological actions in termites.

    Dai Watanabe;Hiroki Gotoh;Toru Miura;Kiyoto Maekawa

  • Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: Gene duplication facilitates social evolution

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  • Nitrogen recycling through proctodeal trophallaxis in the Japanese damp-wood termite Hodotermopsis japonica (Isoptera, Termopsidae)

    M. Machida;O. Kitade;T. Miura;T. Matsumoto

  • Morphogenesis and gene expression in the soldier-caste differentiation of termites

    T. Miura

  • Wing disc development during caste differentiation in the ant Pheidole megacephala (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

    Shin-ya Sameshima;Toru Miura;Tadao Matsumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuji Shigenobu
Shuji Shigenobu National Institute for Basic Biology
Kazuki Tsuji
Kazuki Tsuji University of the Ryukyus
Takema Fukatsu
Takema Fukatsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Naoki Sugimoto
Naoki Sugimoto Konan University
Yves Roisin
Yves Roisin Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jan Šobotník
Jan Šobotník Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Yukihiro Goda
Yukihiro Goda Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
Douglas J. Emlen
Douglas J. Emlen University of Montana
Nathan Lo
Nathan Lo University of Sydney
Hajime Asama
Hajime Asama University of Tokyo

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