Recent Publications 2014 -

• 2023

Hiroshi Ito, Akira Sasaki. The adaptation front equation explains innovation-driven taxonomic turnovers and living fossilization. The American Naturalist (in press):  (2023).

Koichi Saeki, Akira Sasaki. Cell-to-cell transmission promotes the emergence of double-drug resistance. Virus Evolution :  (2023).

Mariko Ito, Akira Sasaki. Casting votes of antecedents play a key role in successful sequential decision-making. PLOS ONE 18(2): e0282062 (2023).

Sébastien Lion, Akira Sasaki, Michael Boots. Extending eco-evolutionary theory with oligomorphic dynamics. Ecology Letters 2023:00: 1-25 (2023).

• 2022

Ryuichi Kumata, Akira Sasaki. Antigenic escape accelerated by the presence of immunocompromised hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289: 20221437 (2022).

Yu Uchiumi, Masato Sato, Akira Sasaki. Evolutionary double suicide in symbiotic systems. Ecology Letters 26: 87-98 (2022).

Kouji Ishikawa, Tomohisa Kuroda, Takeshi Hori, Daisuke Iwata, Seijiro Matsuzawa, Jun Nakabayashi, Akira Sasaki, Taketo Ashizawa. Long-term blast control in high eating quality rice using multilines. Scientific Reports 12(1): 14880 (2022).

Sébastien Lion, Mike Boots, Akira Sasaki. Multi-morph eco-evolutionary dynamics in structured populations. American Naturalist 200(3): 345-372 (2022).

Akira Sasaki, Sébastien Lion, Mike Boots. Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6: 51-62 (2022).

• 2021

Masato Sato, Akira Sasaki. Evolution and maintenance of mutualism between tubeworms and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. American Naturalist 197(3): 351-365 (2021).

• 2020

Yu Uchiumi, Akira Sasaki. Evolution of division of labour in mutualistic symbiosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287(1930): 20200669 (2020).

Hiroshi C. Ito, Akira Sasaki. Evolutionary branching in distorted trait spaces. Journal of Theoretical Biology 489: 110152 (2020).

• 2019

Sayaki U. Suzuki, Akira Sasaki. Ecological and evolutionary stabilities of biotrophism, necrotrophism, and saprotrophism. American Naturalist 194(1): 90-103 (2019).

Yu Uchiumi, Hisashi Ohtsuki, Akira Sasaki. Evolution of self-limited cell division of symbionts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1895): 20182238 (2019). doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.2238

Kim, H., Toyokawa, W., & Kameda, T. "How do we decide when (not) to free-ride? Risk tolerance predicts behavioral plasticity in cooperation." 

Evolution and Human Behavior (2019) 40(1): 55-64, doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.08.001

• 2018

Sekiguchi, T. “Preferences over procedures and outcomes in judgment aggregation: an experimental study.”  Theory and Decision (2018): 1-20, doi:10.1007/s11238-018-9678-4

Mariko I. Ito, Hisashi Ohtsuki, Akira Sasaki. Emergence of opinion leaders in reference networks. PLOS ONE 13(3): e0193983 (2018). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193983

Koich Saeki, Akira Sasaki. The role of spatial heterogeneity in the evolution of local and global infections of viruses. PLOS Computational Biology 14(1): e1005952 (2018). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005952

Parvinen, K., Ohtsuki, H. & Wakano, J.Y. "Spatial heterogeneity and evolution of fecundity-affecting traits."  Journal of theoretical biology (2018) 454(7): 190-204, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.06.005

Kobayashi, Y., Wakano, J.Y. & Ohtsuki, H. "Genealogies and ages of cultural traits: An application of the theory of duality to the research on cultural evolution." Theoretical population biology (2018) 123: 18-27, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2018.04.007

Toyokawa, W., Whalen, A. & Laland, K.N. "Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds." bioRxiv (2018) 326637, doi:10.1101/326637  

Ohtsuki, H. "Evolutionary Dynamics of Coordinated Cooperation."  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2018) 6:62, doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00062

Nakahashi, W. & Ohtsuki, H. "Evolution of emotional contagion in group-living animals"  Journal of Theoretical Biology (2018) 440, 12-20, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.12.015

• 2017

Y. Uchiumi, H. Ohtsuki, A. Sasaki. Evolutionary emergence and maintenance of horizontally transmitted mutualism that do not rely on the supply of standing variation in symbiont quality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30(12): 2211-2221 (2017). doi:10.1111/jeb.13187

Akira Sasaki, Akiko N. Mizuno. Partitioning light spectra: Adaptive stratification of phytobenthic communities in Antarctic lakes. Journal of Theoretical Biology 424: 1-10 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.04.022

Reeves, T., Ohtsuki, H. & Fukui, S. "Asymmetric public goods game cooperation through pest control." Journal of Theoretical Biology (2017), 435, 238-247, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.09.006

Ohtsuki, H. & Innan, H. "Forward and Backward Evolutionary Processes and Allele Frequency Spectrum in a Cancer Cell Population." Theoretical Population Biology (2017), 117, 43-50, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2017.08.006

Muthukrishna, M., Henrich, J., Toyokawa, W., Hamamura, T., Kameda, T. & Heine, S.  "Overconfidence Is Universal? Elicitation of Genuine Overconfidence (EGO) Method Reveals Systematic Differences Across Domain, Task Knowledge, and Incentives in Four Populations." Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3064202 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3064202 (2017)

Nakahashi, W. "Cultural sexual selection in monogamous human populations."  Royal Society Open Science (2017) 4, 160946, doi:/10.1098/rsos.160946

Nakahashi, W. “The effect of trauma on Neanderthal culture: A mathematical analysis.” HOMO-Journal of Comparative Human Biology (2017) 68, 83-100, doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2017.02.001

Ohtsuki, H., Wakano, J.Y. & Kobayashi, Y. "Inclusive fitness analysis of cumulative cultural evolution in an island-structured population." Theoretical Population Biology (2017) 115, 13-23, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2017.03.001

Sekiguchi, T. & Ohtsuki, H. "Fixation probabilities of strategies for bimatrix games in finite populations." Dynamic Games and Applications (2017) 7(1), 93-111, doi:10.1007/s13235-015-0170-2

Parvinen, K., Ohtsuki, H. & Wakano, J.Y. "The effect of fecundity derivatives on the condition of evolutionary branching in spatial models." Journal of Theoretical Biology (2017) 416, 129-143, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.12.019

Oya, G. & Ohtsuki, H. "Stable polymorphism of cooperators and punishers in a public goods game."  Journal of Theoretical Biology (2017) 419, 243-253, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.11.012

Bessho, K. & Otto, S. P. "Fixation probability in a haploid-diploid population."  Genetics (2017) 205: 421-440, doi:10.1534/genetics.116.192856 

• 2016

Inaba, M., Takahashi, N. & Ohtsuki, H. "Robustness of linkage strategy that leads to large-scale cooperation." Journal of Theoretical Biology (2016) 409, 97-107, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.08.035

Ito, H. & Sasaki, A. “Evolutionary branching under multi-dimensional evolutionary constraints.” Journal of Theoretical Biology (2016) 407 409-428, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.07.011

Sekiguchi, T. "Optimal group composition for efficient division of labor.” Theory and Decision, (2016) 81(4), 601-618, doi:10.1007/s11238-016-9552-1

Yashima, K. & Sasaki, A. “Spotting epidemic keystones by R0 sensitivity analysis: High-risk stations in the Tokyo metropolitan area.”  PLoS ONE, (2016) 11(9), e0162406, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162406

Nakamura, M., Ohtsuki, H. "Optimal Decision Rules in Repeated Games where Players Infer Others' Minds by Simplified Belief Calculation."  Games (2016) 7(3), 19, doi:10.3390/g7030019

Tanaka, H., Ohtsuki, H. & Ohtsubo, Y. "The Price of Being Seen to Be Just: An Intention Signalling Strategy for Indirect Reciprocity." Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2016) 283(1835), 20160694, doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0694

Kobayashi, Y., Ohtsuki, H. & Wakano, J. Y. "Population size vs. social connectedness -- A gene-culture coevolutionary approach to cumulative cultural evolution."  Theoretical Population Biology (2016) 111, 87-95, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2016.07.001

Morita, M., Ohtsuki, H. & Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, M. "Does Sexual Conflict between Mother and Father Lead to Fertility Decline? A Questionnaire Survey in a Modern Developed Society." Human Nature (2016) 27(2), 201-219, doi:10.1007/s12110-016-9254-y

Morita, M., Ohtsuki, H. & Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, M. "A panel data analysis of the probability of childbirth in a Japanese sample: new evidence of the two-child norm." American Journal of Human Biology, (2016) 28(2), 220-225, doi:10.1002/ajhb.22776

Nakahashi, W. “Coevolution of female ovulatory signals and male-male competition in primates.”  Journal of Theoretical Biology (2016) 392, 12–22, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.12.007

• 2015

Nakahashi, W.  “The evolution of culturally transmitted teaching behavior.” In: Mesoudi A and Aoki K (eds.) Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Paleolithic. Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series (2015), Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 23-33, doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55363-2_3

• Yashima, K. & Sasaki, A. “Epidemic dynamics of infectious disease in metropolitan area and its optimal intervention strategy.” 

• IFAC-PapersOnLine (2015) 48(18), 136-140, doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.11.025

• Tonoike, A., Nagasawa, M., Mogi, K., Serpell, J.A., Ohtsuki, H. & Kikusui, T. "Comparison of owner-reported behavioral characteristics among genetically clustered breeds of dog (Canis familiaris)." 

• Scientific Reports (2015) 5, 17710, doi:10.1038/srep17710

• Ohtsuki, H., Iwasa, Y. & Nowak, M. A. "Reputation effects in public and private interactions." 

• PLOS Computational Biology (2015) 11(11), e1004527, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004527

• Sekiguchi, T. & Ohtsuki, H. "Effective group size of majority vote accuracy in sequential decision-making." 

• Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2015) 32(3), 595-614, doi:10.1007/s13160-015-0192-6

• Nakahashi, W. & Ohtsuki, H. "When is emotional contagion adaptive?" 

• Journal of Theoretical Biology (2015) 380, 480-488, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.06.014

• Kobayashi, Y., Wakano, J. Y. & Ohtsuki, H. "A paradox of cumulative culture." 

• Journal of Theoretical Biology (2015) 379, 79-88, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.05.002

• Kaito, C., Dieckmann, U., Sasaki, A. and Takasu, F. “Beyond pairs: Definition and interpretation of third-order structure in spatial point patterns.”

• Journal of Theoretical Biology (2015) 372 22-38, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.004

• Ito, K., Ohtsuki, H. & Yamauchi, A. "Relationship between aggregation of rewards and the possibility of polymorphism in continuous snowdrift games." 

  • Journal of Theoretical Biology (2015) 372, 47-53, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.015

  • 2014

• So, K. H. Z., Ohtsuki, H. & Kato, T. "Spatial effect on stochastic dynamics of bistable evolutionary games." 

• Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2014) P10020, doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2014/10/P10020

• Yamamichi, M., Yoshida, T. and Sasaki, A. “Timing and propagule size of invasion determine its success by a time-varying threshold of demographic regime shift.”

• Ecology (2014) 95 2303-2315, doi:10.1890/13-1527.1

• Nakamura, M. & Ohtsuki, H. "Indirect reciprocity in three types of social dilemmas." 

• Journal of Theoretical Biology (2014) 355, 117-127, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.03.035

• Nakahashi, W. “The effect of cultural interaction on cumulative cultural evolution.” 

• Journal of Theoretical Biology (2014) 352, 6-15, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.02.032

• Yashima, K. & Sasaki, A. “Epidemic Process over the Commute Network in a Metropolitan Area.”  

• PLoS ONE (2014) 9(6), e98518, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098518

• Nakahashi, W. & Feldman, M.W. “Evolution of division of labor: Emergence of different activities among group members.” 

• Journal of Theoretical Biology (2014) 348, 65-79, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.01.027

• Ohtsuki, H. "Evolutionary dynamics of n-player games played by relatives." 

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2014) 369(1642), 20130359 doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0359

• Kobayashi, Y. & Ohtsuki, H. "Evolution of social versus individual learning in a subdivided population revisited: Comparative analysis of three coexistence mechanisms using the inclusive-fitness method." 

• Theoretical Population Biology (2014) 92, 78-87, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2013.12.003

• Mpolya, E. A., Yashima, K., Ohtsuki, H. & Sasaki, A. "Epidemic dynamics of a vector-borne disease on a villages-and-city star network with commuters." 

• Journal of Theoretical Biology (2014) 343, 120-126, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.11.024

• Úbeda, F., Ohtsuki, H. & Gardner, A. "Ecology drives intragenomic conflict over menopause." 

• Ecology Letters (2014) 17(2), 165-174, doi:10.1111/ele.12208