Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Genetics
Research interest
Research interests include Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Genetic diversity and population structure, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, and Legal and Regulatory Analysis.
Description of a new music frog (Anura, Ranidae, <i>Nidirana</i>) critically endangered in Taiwan.
Speciation on the continent in the Miocene? Multiple overseas dispersal to the island? –Reexamination of diversification process of Kurixalus eiffingeri (Boettger, 1895) (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae)–
Genetic Diversity of Sodefrin-Variant Pheromones and Pheromone Responsiveness in Subspecies of the Japanese Sword-Tail Newt <i>Cynops ensicauda</i>.
Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats
Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial organisms of these and adjacent islands
Demographic imbalance in the hybrid zone led to asymmetric gene flow between two closely related geckos, <i>Gekko hokouensis</i> and <i>Gekko yakuensis</i> (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
Author Correction: Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats
The emergence of a cryptic lineage and cytonuclear discordance through past hybridization in the Japanese fire-bellied newt,<i>Cynops pyrrhogaster</i>(Amphibia: Urodela)
Morphological and taxonomic reexamination on a crocodile newt recently described from Japan (Urodela, Salamandridae, Echinotriton).
Structure and movement of the hybrid zone between two divergent lineages of the Japanese newt<i>Cynops pyrrhogaster</i>(Amphibia: Urodela) in central Japan
Distribution and Genetic Diversity of the Amphibian Chytrid in Japan.
Relict distribution of <i>Microhyla</i> (Amphibia: Microhylidae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago: High diversity in East Asia maintained by insularization
Two new species of lotic breeding salamanders (Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) from western Japan.