AKINO Toshiharu

Professor

Keywords: Myrmecology; eusocial insects; ants; pheromone communication; semiochemicals; social interaction;
pest management; biological control;
insect-plant interaction

Current Research Projects

  • Ant and Termite Chemical Communication

    • Nestmate Recognition

    • Task Recognition

    • Foraging and Homing

    • Myrmecophilous insects and plants

  • Mating cues of crickets and assasing bugs

  • Chemical Strategies of Plant Pollination

etc.

Recent Publication lists


2022

  1. Kyohsuke Ohkawara, Yumeno Kamei, Toshiharu Akino (2022) Anting behavior in birds: the behavioral patterns and the interactions with ants in the subgenus Dendrolasius of the genus Lasius Journal of Ornithology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-022-01974-5

2021

  1. Eric Hyrmeya Savadogo, Yui Shiomi, Junko Yasuda, Toshiharu Akino, Masamitsu Yamaguchi, Hideki Yoshida, Takanari Umegawachi, Ryo Tanaka, Dang Ngoc Anh Suong, Kenji Miura, Kazufumi Yazaki & Sakihito Kitajima (2021) Gene expression of PLAT and ATS3 proteins increases plant resistance to insects. Planta 253, Article number: 37 (DOI: 10.1007/s00425-020-03530-y)

2020

  1. Yuki Mitaka & Toshiharu Akino: A Review of Termite Pheromones: Multifaceted, Context-Dependent, and Rational Chemical Communications. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, section Chemical Ecology 8:595614. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.595614

  2. Yuki Mitaka & Toshiharu Akino: A Review of Termite Pheromones: Multifaceted, Context-Dependent, and Rational Chemical Communications. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, section Chemical Ecology 8:595614. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.595614　

  3. Takeda T, Sakata D, Nishikawa Y, Mizuno T, Akino T (2020) Intake of plant resin through the genitalia of two Asian assassin bugs (Reduviidae: Harpactorinae: Harpactorini) Jounral of Insect Behavior 33(5-6) 1-8 (DOI: 10.1007/s10905-020-09757-7

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

2019

  1. Fujisawa M, Hanasaki N, Takikawa Y, Yanagawa A, Matsukawa T, Akino T, Kajiyama S, and Arai S (2019) A Questionnaire-based Investigation Indicated Mental Relaxation Effects in the Scent of the Sacred Flower of the Saikusa Festival, Lilium japonicum Japanese Journal of Pharmacognosy 73 (1) 1-6

  2. Fujiwara-Tsujii N, Yasui H, Yasuda T, Wakamura S, Akino T, Fukaya M, Suzuki T, Hoshi T, Hagiwara H and Ono H (2019) Pheromone activity of synthetic contact sex pheromne, Gomadalactones, in male white-spotted longhorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology (First Online)

  3. Nakamura T, Harada K, and Akino T (2019) Identification of methyl 6-methylsalicylate as the trail pheromone of the Japanese pavement ant Tetramorium tsushimae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology 54(3): 297-305

  4. Mizuno T, Hagiwara Y, Akino T (2019) Varied effects of tending ant species on development of facultatively myrmecophilous lycaenid butterfly larva. Insects 10(8), 234



Contact Address

Applied Entomology Laboratory, Department of Bioresource Field Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Saga-Ippongi-cho 1, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto 616-8354, Japan

E-mail: t-akino<at>kit.ac.jp