Miyazaki Lab.
Tamagawa Univ
Satoshi Miyazaki
Position: Professor of Eco-Evo-Devo Laboratory in Tamagawa University
Email: smiyazaki[at]tamagawa.ac.jp
Adress: Graduate School of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, 194-8610, Japan
Education and Post Doctoral Experience
2014.4 - 2015.3 Research Assistant Professor, Tokyo Women's Medical University
2011.4 - 2014.3 JSPS Post-doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama
2009.4 - 2011.3 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University
2009.3 PhD, Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
2006.4 - 2009.3 JSPS Research Fellowship for doctoral course students, Hokkaido University
2006.3 Master, Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
2004.3 Bachelor, Environmental Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Research Interests
・Evolution of colony foundation strategies in ants
・Caste polyphenism and caste evolution in social insects
・Sex determination and differentiation in social insects
・Developmental mechanisms of insect morphologies
・Pollination ecology
Publications
* Corresponding Author
27. Fujiwara, K., Miyazaki, S. and *Maekawa, K. 2024. Candidate target genes of the male-specific expressed Doublesex in the termite Reticulitermes speratus. PLoS ONE 19(3): e0299900. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299900. [PDF]
26. Tanaka, Y., Oguchi, K., Miyazaki, S., Maekawa, K. and *Shimoji, H. 2024. Reproductive potentials of task-shifting workers in a queenless ant. Insectes Sociaux 71, 109–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-024-00949-4. [PDF (view-only version)]
25. * Miyazaki, S. 2023. Thelytokous parthenogenesis in dealate queens of the ponerine ant Anochetus shohki. Asian Myrmecology 16: e016006 (1-6). DOI: 10.20362/am.016006. [PDF]
24. *Sugiura, N., Shikata, K. and Miyazaki, S. 2023. Notes on the foraging habits of adult Protohermes dobsonflies (Megaloptera: Corydalidae): Further evidence for anthophilous megalopterans. Entomological Science 26: e12542. https://doi.org/10.1111/ens.12542. [PDF]
23. Kurihara, Y., Ogawa, K., Chiba, Y., Hayashi, Y., *Miyazaki, S. 2022. Thoracic crop formation is spatiotemporally coordinated with flight muscle histolysis during claustral colony foundation in Lasius japonicus queens. Arthropod Structure & Development 69: 101169.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2022.101169
22. *Shigenobu S., Hayashi Y., Watanabe, D., Tokuda, G., Hojo, M.Y., Toga, K., Saiki R., Yaguchi, H., Masuoka, Y., Suzuki, R., Suzuki, S., Kimura, M., Matsunami, M., Sugime, Y., Oguchi, K., Niimi, T., Gotoh, H., Hojo, M.K., Miyazaki, S., Toyoda, T., *Miura, T. and *Maekawa, K. 2022. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: gene duplication facilitates social evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (3): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2110361119. [PDF]
21. *Miyazaki, S., Fujiwara, K., Kai, K., Masuoka, Y., Gotoh, H., Niimi, T., Hayashi, Y., Shigenobu, S. and *Maekawa, K. 2021. Evolutionary transition of doublesex regulation from sex-specific splicing to male-specific transcription in termites. Scientific Reports 11: 15992. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95423-7. [PDF]
20. *Sugiura, N. and Miyazaki, S. 2021. Discovery of flower-visiting fishflies: adult Neochauliodes amamioshimanus (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) nocturnally forages on Schima wallichii ssp. noronhae trees. Entomological Science 24: 152-156. https://doi.org/10.1111/ens.12463. [PDF]
19. *Miyazaki, S., Shimoji, H., Suzuki, R., Chinushi, I., Takayanagi, H. Yaguchi, H., Miura, T. and Maekawa, K. 2021. Expressions of conventional vitellogenin and vitellogenin-like A in worker brains are associated with a nursing task in a ponerine ant. Insect Molecular Biology 30: 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/imb.12682. [PDF]
Top Cited Article 2021-2022 in Insect Molecular Biology
18. *Cronin, A. L., Azuma, N., Miyazaki, S., Oguri, E., Schwarz, M. P. and Ito, F. 2020. Geographic patterns in colonial reproductive strategy in Myrmecina nipponica: Links between biogeography and a key polymorphism in ants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33: 1192–1202. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13659.
17. Yaguchi, H., Shigenobu, S., Hayashi, Y., Miyazaki, S., Toga, K., Masuoka, Y. and *Maekawa, K. 2018. A lipocalin protein, Neural Lazarillo, is key to social interactions that promote termite soldier differentiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285 (1883): DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0707.
16. *Ito, F., Miyazaki, S., Hashim, R. and Billen, J. 2017. Colony composition and behavioral characteristics of Myrmoteras iridium and M. jaitrongi in Ulu Gombak, Peninsular Malaysia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Asian Myrmecology 9: e009010. [PDF]
15. *Okada, Y., Sasaki, K., Miyazaki, S., Shimoji, H., Tsuji, K., and Miura, T. 2015. Social dominance and reproductive differentiation mediated by the dopaminergic signaling in a queenless ant. Journal of Experimental Biology 218 (7): 1099-1110.
14. Miyazaki, S., Yoshimura, M., Saiki, R., Hayashi, Y., Kitade, O., Tsuji, K. and *Maekawa, K. 2014. Intracolonial genetic variation affects reproductive skew and colony productivity during colony foundation in a parthenogenetic termite. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 177. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0177-0. [PDF]
13. *Miyazaki, S., Okada, Y., Miyakawa, H., Tokuda, G., Cornette, R., Koshikawa, S., Maekawa, K. and Miura, T. 2014. Sexually dimorphic body color is regulated by sex-specific expression of yellow gene in ponerine ant, Diacamma sp. PLOS ONE 9 (3): e92875. https://doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092875. [PDF]
12. Masuoka, Y., Miyazaki, S., Saiki, R., Tsuchida, T., *Maekawa, K. 2013. High Laccase2 expression is likely involved in the formation of specific cuticular structures during soldier differentiation of the termite Reticulitermes speratus. Arthropod Structure & Development 42 (6): 469-475.
11. Hattori, A., Sugime, Y., Sasa, C., Miyakawa, H., Ishikawa, Y., Miyazaki, S., Okada, Y., Cornette, R., Lavine, L. C., Emlen, D. J., Koshikawa, S., *Miura, T. 2013. Soldier morphogenesis in the damp-wood termite is regulated by the insulin signaling pathway. Journal of Experimental Zoology 320 (5): 295-306.
10. Ishikawa, A., Ishikawa, Y., Okada, Y., Miyazaki, S., Miyakawa, H., Koshikawa, S., Brisson, J., *Miura, T. 2012. Screening of up-regulated genes induced by high density in the vetch aphid Megoura crassicauda. Journal of Experimental Zoology 317 (3): 194-203.
9. Okada, Y., Miyazaki, S., Koshikawa, S., Cornette, R., Maekawa, K., Tsuji, K. and *Miura, T. 2010. Identification of a reproductive-specific, putative lipid transport protein gene in a queenless ponerine ant Diacamma sp. Naturwissenschaften 97 (11): 971-979.
8. Miyakawa, H., Imai, M., Sugimoto, N., Ishikawa, Y., Ishikawa, A., Ishigaki, H., Okada, Y., Miyazaki, S., Koshikawa, S., Cornette R. and *Miura, T. 2010. Gene up-regulation in response to predator kairomones in the water flea, Daphnia pulex. BMC Developmental Biology 10: 45.
7. Miyazaki, S., Murakami, T., Kubo, T., Azuma, N., Higashi, S. and *Miura, T. 2010. Ergatoid queen development in the ant Myrmecina nipponica: modular and heterochronic regulation of caste differentiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277 (1690): 1953-1961.
6. Bawn, S., Tiwananthagorn, S., Lin, K. S., Hirota, J., Irie, T., Htun, L. L., Maw, N. N., Myaing, T. T., Phay, N., Miyazaki, S., Sakurai, T., Oku, Y., Matsuura, H. and *Katakura, K. 2010. Evaluation of Myanmar medicinal plant extracts for antitrypanosomal and cytotoxic activities. The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science 72 (4): 525-528.
5. Okada, Y., Miyazaki, S., Miyakawa, H., Ishikawa, A., Tsuji, K. and *Miura, T. 2010. Ovarian development and insulin-signaling pathways during reproductive differentiation in the queenless ponerine ant Diacamma sp. Journal of Insect Physiology 56 (3): 288-295.
4. *Kikuchi, T., Miyazaki, S., Ohnishi, H., Takahashi, J., Nakajima, Y. and Tsuji, K. 2008. Small queens and big-headed workers in a monomorphic ponerine ant. Naturwissenschaften 95 (10): 963-968.
3. Koshikawa, S., Miyazaki, S., Cornette, R., Matsumoto, T. and *Miura, T. 2008. Genome size of termites (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Isoptera) and wood roaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Cryptocercidae). Naturwissenschaften 95 (9): 859-867.
2. *Sugiura, N., Miyazaki, S. and Nagaishi, S. 2006. A supplementary contribution of ants in the pollination of an orchid, Epipactis thunbergii, usually pollinated by hover flies. Plant Systematics and Evolution 258 (1-2): 17–26.
1. Miyazaki, S., Murakami, T., Azuma, N., Higashi, S. and *Miura, T. 2005. Morphological differences among three female castes: worker, queen and intermorphic queen in the ant Myrmecina nipponica (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 46 (2): 363-374.