Publications

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Publications

Preprints under review

1. Mizumoto N.* & Nozaki T. (2023) The significance of social interactions in synchronized swarming flight in a termite. bioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.25.573318

Journal Papers (refereed)  

34. Mizumoto N.*, Hellemans S., Engel M. S., Bourguignon T. & Buček A.* (2024) Extinct and extant termites reveal the fidelity of behavior fossilization in amber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (in press)

33. Tanaka Y., Valentini G., Pratt. C. S., Shimoji H., & Mizumoto N.* (2023) Protocol to obtain long movement trajectories of leaders and followers in ant tandem runs. STAR Protocols (in press)

32. Mizumoto N. (2023) TManual: Assistant for manually measuring length development in structures built by animals. Ecology and Evolution, DOI:10.1002/ece3.10394

31. Mizumoto N.#*, Tanaka Y.#, Valentini G., Richardson O. T., Annagiri S., Pratt. C. S. & Shimoji H. (2023) Functional and mechanistic diversity in ant tandem runs. iScience, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106418 

30. Mizumoto N. * & Bourguignon T. (2022) Light alters activity but do not disturb tandem coordination of termite mating pairs. Ecological Entomology, DOI: 10.1111/een.13209

29. Mizumoto N. *, Bourguignon T., & Bailey W. N. (2022) Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 119(46) e2212401119, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212401119

28. Lee S.B.*, Chouvenc T., Mizumoto N., Mullins A. & Su N.Y. (2022) Age-based spatial distribution of workers is resilient to worker loss in a subterranean termite. Scientific Reports, 12:7837, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11512-1

27. Buček A., Wang M., Šobotník J., Sillam-Dussès D., Mizumoto N., Stiblík P., Clitheroe C., Lu T., González Plaza J. J., Mohagan A., Rafanomezantsoa J. J., Fisher B., Engel M., Roisin Y., Evans T., Scheffrahn R. & Bourguignon T. (2022) Molecular phylogeny reveals the past transoceanic voyages of drywood termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). Molecular Biology and Evolution DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac093

26. Mizumoto N.*, Bourguignon T.  & Kanao T.  (2022)Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles. Evolution, DOI:10.1111/evo.14457

25. Yashiro T.*, Tea Y-K., Wal C.V.D., Nozaki T., Mizumoto N., Hellemans S., Matsuura K. & Lo N. (2021) Enhanced heterozygosity from male meiotic chromosome chains is superseded by hybrid female asexuality in termites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 118, e2009533118, DOI:10.1073/pnas.2009533118

24.  Mizumoto N.* & Bourguignon T.  (2021) The evolution of body size in termites. Proceedings of the Royal Society B  288:20211458, DOI:10.1098/rspb.2021.1458

23. Mizumoto N.*, Lee S.B., Valentini G., Chouvenc T. & Pratt S.C. (2021) Coordination of movement via complementary interactions of leaders and followers in termite mating pairs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288:20210998, DOI:10.1098/rspb.2021.0998

22. Taerum S.*, Jasso-Selles D. E., Hileman J., De Martini F., Mizumoto N. & Gile G. H. (2020) Spirotrichonymphea (Parabasalia) symbionts of the termite Paraneotermes simplicicornis.  European Journal of Protistology, 76:125742, DOI:10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125742 

21. Mizumoto N.*, Rizo A., Pratt S.C. & Chouvenc T. (2020) Termite males enhance mating encounters by changing speed according to density. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89:2542-2552, DOI:10.1111/1365-2656.13320 

20. Valentini G., Mizumoto N., Pratt S.C., Pavlic T.P.* & Walker S.I.* (2020) Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviors. eLife, 9:e55395, DOI:10.7554/eLife.55395

19. Mizumoto N.*, Gile G. H. & Pratt S.C. (2020) Behavioral rules for soil excavation by colony founders and workers in termites. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 114(5):654-661, DOI:10.1093/aesa/saaa017

18. Mizumoto N.*, Bardunias P.M. & Pratt S.C. (2020) Complex relationship between tunneling patterns and individual behaviors in termites. American Naturalist, 196(5) DOI:10.1086/711020  

17. Mizumoto N.* & Bourguignon T. (2020) Modern termites inherited the potential of collective construction from their common ancestor. Ecology and Evolution 10: 6775-6784 DOI:10.1002/ece3.6381

16. Mitaka Y.*, Matsuyama S., Mizumoto N., Matsuura K. & Akino T. (2020) Chemical identification of an aggregation pheromone in the termite Reticulitermes speratus. Scientific Reports 10: 7424 DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-64388-4

15. Shimoji H.*#, Mizumoto N.#, Oguchi K. & Dobata S. (2019) Caste-biased locomotor activities in isolated termites. Physiological Entomology 45:  50-59 DOI:10.1111/phen.12315 

14. Mee E. D., Gaylor M. G., Jasso-Selles D. E., Mizumoto N. & Gile G. H.* (2019) Molecular phylogenetic position of Hoplonympha natator (Trichonymphea, Parabasalia): Horizontal symbiont transfer or differential loss? Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 67: 268 DOI:10.1111/jeu.12765

13. Mizumoto N.*, Miyata S. & Pratt S. C. (2019) Inferring collective behavior from a fossilized fish shoal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20190891 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0891 

12. Mizumoto N.* & Dobata S. (2019) Adaptive switch to sexually dimorphic movements by partner-seeking termites. Science Advances 5: eaau6108 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau6108 

11. Mizumoto N.* (2018) Barricade construction by primitive termites: Task allocation and evolutionary perspectives. Artificial Life and Robotics 23: 469-473 DOI:10.1007/s10015-018-0474-6

10. Yashiro T.*, Lo N., Kobayashi K., Nozaki T., Fuchikawa T., Mizumoto N., Namba Y. & Matsuura K. (2018) Loss of males from mixed-sex societies in termites BMC Biology 16: 96 DOI:10.1186/s12915-018-0563-y

9. Mizumoto N.*, Dobata S. (2018) The optimal movement patterns for mating encounters with sexually asymmetric detection ranges. Scientific Reports 8: 3356 DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21437-3

8. Matsuura K.*#, Mizumoto N.#, Kobayashi K., Nozaki T., Fujita T., Yashiro T., Fuchikawa T., Mitaka Y. & Vargo E. L. (2018) A genomic imprinting model of termite caste determination: Not genetic but epigenetic inheritance influences offspring caste fate. The American Naturalist 191(6): 677-690 DOI:10.1086/697238

7. Hasegawa E.*#, Mizumoto N.#, Kobayashi K., Dobata S., Yoshimura J. Watanabe S., Murakami Y. & Matsuura K. (2017) Nature of collective decision-making by simple yes/no decision units. Scientific Reports 7: 14436 DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-14626-z

6. Mizumoto N.*, Fuchikawa T. & Matsuura K. (2017) Pairing strategy after today's failure: unpaired termites synchronize mate search using photic cycles. Population Ecology 59(3): 205-211 DOI:10.1007/s10144-017-0584-3

5. Nagaya N.*#, Mizumoto N.#, Abe S. M., Dobata S., Sato R. & Fujisawa R.* (2017) Anomalous diffusion on the servosphere: a potential tool for detecting inherent organismal movement patterns. PLOS ONE 12(6): e0177480. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177480

4. Mizumoto N.*, Abe S. M.* & Dobata S.* (2017) Optimizing mating encounters by sexually dimorphic movements. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 14: 20170086. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0086

3. Mizumoto N.*, Yashiro T. & Matsuura K. (2016) Male same-sex pairing as an adaptive strategy for future reproduction in termites. Animal Behaviour 119: 179-187. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.07.007

2. Mizumoto N.*, Kobayashi K. & Matsuura K. (2015) Emergence of intercolonial variation in termite shelter tube patterns and prediction of its underlying mechanism. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150360 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150360

1. Mizumoto N. & Matsuura K.* (2013) Colony-specific architecture of shelter tubes by termites. Insectes Sociaux 60: 525-530. DOI: 10.1007/s00040-013-0319-1