Publications

原著論文 (査読付)

*: equal contributors; †: corresponding author; ¶: 千頭が第一著者あるいは共同第一著者の論文

¶14.  Yasuhiko Chikami†, Kensuke Yahata† (2025)

Soma–germ contact across the basement membrane in the ovary. Biology Letters, 21: 2120250056.

プレスリリース → https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/journal/biology-environment/20250502140000.html

13. Kanta Sugiura*, Tensho Terano*, Haruhiko Adachi, Jin Hagiwara, Keisuke Matsuda, Kenji Nishida, Paul Hanson, Shigeru Kondo, Yasuhiko Chikami, Hiroki Gotoh† (2025) 

A general theory of the complex pronotum morphology of treehoppers in Smiliinae and its relatives (Hemiptera: Membracidae) and its applicability to other subfamilies. European Journal of Entomology, 122: 42–55.

プレスリリース → https://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/news/detail.html?CN=10723

12. Tomonari Nozaki†, Yasuhiko Chikami, Koki Yano, Ryuta Sato, Kenji Suetsugu, Shingo Kaneko (2025)

Lack of successful sexual reproduction suggests the irreversible parthenogenesis in a stick insect. Ecology.

プレスリリース → https://www.nibb.ac.jp/pressroom/news/2025/02/05.html

¶ 11. Yasuhiko Chikami†, Kensuke Yahata† (2024)

The structural and functional modularity of ovarian follicle epithelium in the pill-millipede Hyleoglomeris japonica Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae).

Tissue and Cell, 88: 102372.

プレスリリース → https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/journal/biology-environment/20240425143000.html

10. Itsuki Ohtsu, Yasuhiko Chikami, Taichi Umino, Hiroki Gotoh† (2022)

Evaluation of body size indicators for morphological analyses in two sister species of genus Dorcus (Coleoptera, Lucanidae). Journal of Insect Science, 22: 7.

¶ 9. Yasuhiko Chikami, Miki Okuno, Atsushi Toyoda, Takehiko Itoh, Teruyuki Niimi† (2022)

Evolutionary history of sexual differentiation mechanism in insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39: msac145.

プレスリリース → https://www.nibb.ac.jp/press/2022/08/01.html

8. Shuhei Hashiro†, Yasuhiko Chikami, Haruka Kawaguchi, Alexander A. Krylov, Teruyuki Niimi, Hisashi Yasueda† (2021)

Efficient production of long double-stranded RNAs applicable to agricultural pest control by Corynebacterium glutamicum equipped with coliphage T7-expression system. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 105: 4987–5000.

7. Euki Yazaki*, Ryosuke Miyata*, Yasuhiko Chikami, Ryo Harada, Goro Tanifuji, Takuro Nakayama, Kensuke Yahata, Tetsuo Hashimoto, Yuji Inagaki† (2021)

Signs of the plastid: Enzymes involved in plastid-localized biosynthetic pathways in a terrestrial gregarine. Parasitology International, 83: 102364. 

¶ 6. Yasuhiko Chikami, Haruka Kawaguchi, Takamasa Suzuki, Hirofumi Yoshioka, Yutaka Sato, Toshinobu Yaginuma, Teruyuki Niimi† (2021)

Oral RNAi of diap1 results in rapid reduction of damage to potatoes in Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata. Journal of Pest Science, 94, 505–515.

プレスリリース → https://www.nibb.ac.jp/press/2020/09/25.html

5. Shuhei Hashiro, Mayu Mitsuhashi, Yasuhiko Chikami, Haruka Kawaguchi, Teruyuki Niimi, Hisashi Yasueda† (2019)

Construction of Corynebacterium glutamicum cells as containers encapsulating dsRNA overexpressed for agricultural pest control. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 103: 8485-8496. 

¶ 4. Yasuhiko Chikami, Kensuke Yahata† (2019)

Comparative Morphology of Ovarian Follicle in Two Polydesmid Millipedes: Evolutionary Implication of Folded Structure of Follicle Epithelium in Polydesmida (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). Proceedings of the Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 52: 1-9. 

¶ 3. Yasuhiko Chikami, Kensuke Yahata† (2019)

Histological study of ovarian follicle epithelium in Hyleoglomeris (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae): Two subpopulations in the follicle epithelial cells. Proceedings of the Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 52: 15-18. 

¶ 2. Kensuke Yahata*†, Yasuhiko Chikami*†, Erika Umetani* (2018) 

Morphological study of the ovary in Hanseniella caldaria (Myriapoda; Symphyla): the position of oocyte-growth and evolution of ovarian structure in Arthropoda. Arthropod Structure & Development, 47: 655-661.

1. Hiroki Sakai*, Megumi Sumitani*, Yasuhiko Chikami, Kensuke Yahata, Keiro Uchino, Takashi Kiuchi, Susumu Katsuma, Fugaku Aoki, Hideki Sezutsu, Masataka G. Suzuki† (2016) 

Transgenic Expression of the piRNA-Resistant Masculinizer Gene Induces Female-Specific Lethality and Partial Female-to-Male Sex Reversal in the Silkworm, Bombyx mori. PLOS Genetics, 12: e1006203.

総説・和文

査読あり

1. 畠山正統、千頭康彦、新美輝幸 (2017) 

ハチ目（膜翅目）とコウチュウ目（鞘翅目）におけるゲノム編集研究. 蚕糸・昆虫バイオテック, 86: 115–124. 招待あり.

査読なし

3. 千頭康彦、 新美輝幸 (2022)

RNA 農薬ーRNA を利用した害虫防除の新たな試み. 農耕と園藝. 招待あり. 

2. 竹中將起、千頭康彦 (2021)

「特集／遺伝子から紐解く、昆虫の性的形質の多様性 」総論：昆虫における性的形質の多様性と進化. 昆虫と自然, 56: 2–4. 招待あり. 

1. 千頭康彦、森田慎一、新美輝幸 (2019)

「特集／昆虫の性決定」鞘翅目における性決定と性分化. 昆虫と自然, 54: 15–18. 招待あり.