Search Results - "KURIYAMA, Takeo"
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Current sika deer effective population size is near to reaching its historically highest level in the Japanese archipelago by release from hunting rather than climate change and top predator extinction
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-06-2023)“…Deer species were repeatedly overexploited and protected for their meat and fur and they had strong impacts on ecosystems and human society by damaging crops…”
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Novel approach for detecting classical swine fever virus from swabs of wild boar cut tails using nested real-time PCR
Published in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (01-01-2024)“…We devised a method to detect the classical swine fever virus (CSFV) in tail-wiped swabs from wild boars. The CSFV gene in swabs was detected with high…”
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Embryonic developmental process governing the conspicuousness of body stripes and blue tail coloration in the lizard Plestiodon latiscutatus
Published in Evolution & development (01-01-2017)“…SUMMARY The combination of body stripes and vivid blue tail color has independently evolved in different lizard families. To understand how and when lizards…”
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Blue, Black, and Stripes: Evolution and Development of Color Production and Pattern Formation in Lizards and Snakes
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (21-08-2020)“…In order to understand molecular and genetic mechanism of color pattern formation, not only adult phenotypes but also processes and mechanisms of color…”
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Complex Historical Biogeography of the Eastern Japanese Skink, Plestiodon finitimus (Scincidae, Squamata), Revealed by Geographic Variation in Molecular and Morphological Characters
Published in Zoological science (01-04-2021)“…We investigated the geographic diversification of , which occurs in the central to northern parts of the Japanese Islands, based on a time-calibrated…”
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Predator presence and recent climatic warming raise body temperatures of island lizards
Published in Ecology letters (01-03-2021)“…In ectothermic predator‐prey relationships, evasion of predation by prey depends on physiological and behavioural responses relating to the thermal biology of…”
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Developmental mechanisms of longitudinal stripes in the Japanese four‐lined snake
Published in Journal of morphology (1931) (01-01-2018)“…The developmental mechanisms of color patterns formation and its evolution remain unclear in reptilian sauropsids. We, therefore, studied the pigment cell…”
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Snake and bird predation drive the repeated convergent evolution of correlated life history traits and phenotype in the Izu Island Scincid lizard (Plestiodon latiscutatus)
Published in PloS one (25-03-2014)“…Predation may create strong natural selection pressure on the phenotype and life history characteristics of prey species. The Izu scincid lizards (Plestiodon…”
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Effectiveness of signs of activity as relative abundance indices for wild boar
Published in Wildlife biology (01-12-2021)“…Population growth in wild boars and feral pigs Sus scrofa has negative environmental and economic implications worldwide. Accordingly, it is necessary to…”
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Pigment cell mechanism of postembryonic stripe pattern formation in the Japanese four-lined snake
Published in Journal of morphology (1931) (01-02-2016)“…ABSTRACT Postembryonic changes in the dermal and epidermal pigment cell architecture of the striped and nonstriped morph of the Japanese four‐lined snake…”
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Spatial heterogeneity in induced defense of Brachionus calyciflorus within a single lake caused by a bed of floating-leaved macrophyte Trapa species
Published in Limnology (01-01-2019)“…While induced defense of aquatic organisms against predators has been considerably studied by both laboratory and field research, our understanding is still…”
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Light reflection from crystal platelets in iridophores determines green or brown skin coloration in Takydromus lizards
Published in Zoology (Jena) (01-04-2017)“…•Light-reflecting platelets in iridophores determine green or brown skin coloration in Takydromus lizards.•Iridophores in brown skin reflect longer wavelengths…”
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Utilization of emergent plants as an aestivation habitat by the Trapa-feeding leaf beetle (Galerucella nipponensis) in Lake Inba, Japan
Published in Limnology (01-01-2019)“…Water chestnuts ( Trapa spp.) dominate many shallow eutrophic lakes, and impact aquatic fauna. Use of Trapa beds by animals may vary with the growth stage of…”
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Exploring the drivers of wildlife population dynamics from insufficient data by Bayesian model averaging
Published in Population ecology (01-07-2015)“…A long-standing interest in ecology and wildlife management is to find drivers of wildlife population dynamics because it is crucial for implementing the…”
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An impact assessment of the alien lizard Plestiodon japonicus (Scincidae, Reptilia) on a threatened island population of the native lizard P. latiscutatus at an early phase of the biological invasion
Published in Biological invasions (01-09-2013)“…On the island of Hachijojima, central Japan, a formerly abundant population of native lizard, Plestiodon latiscutatus has become endangered by predation from…”
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time-calibrated phylogenetic approach to assessing the phylogeography, colonization history and phenotypic evolution of snakes in the Japanese Izu Islands
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-02-2011)“…Aim We infer the biogeography and colonization history of a dispersal-limited terrestrial vertebrate, the Japanese four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quadrivirgata),…”
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Ultrastructure of the dermal chromatophores in a lizard (Scincidae: Plestiodon latiscutatus) with conspicuous body and tail coloration
Published in Zoological science (01-09-2006)“…Microscopic observation of the skin of Plestiodon lizards, which have body stripes and blue tail coloration, identified epidermal melanophores and three types…”
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Numerical study on the structural color of blue birds by a disordered porous photonic crystal model
Published in Europhysics letters (01-08-2014)“…It has been observationally confirmed that the color of birds, such as kingfisher and red-flanked bluetail, is a structural color owing to the interference of…”
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Novel approach for detecting classical swine fever virus from swabs of wild boar cut tails using nested real-time PCR
Published in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (2024)“…We devised a method to detect the classical swine fever virus (CSFV) in tail-wiped swabs from wild boars. The CSFV gene in swabs was detected with high…”
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Developmental mechanisms of longitudinal stripes in the J apanese four‐lined snake
Published in Journal of morphology (1931) (01-01-2018)“…The developmental mechanisms of color patterns formation and its evolution remain unclear in reptilian sauropsids. We, therefore, studied the pigment cell…”
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