Dr Shigeto Dobata
Kyoto University
Professor, Life Sciences
Japan
My co-authors include
Yuuka Murakami
My Publications
Public goods dilemma in asexual ant societies
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
September 2013
The trick of termite pairing
Science Advances
June 2019
Using swarm robots to understand the evolution of self-organization
Communications Biology
January 2019
Seasonal and temporal variations in colony-level foraging activity of a queenless ant, ...
Journal of Ethology
September 2018
Copy if dissatisfied, innovate if not: contrasting egg-laying decision making in an insect
Animal Cognition
August 2018
The optimal movement patterns for mating encounters with sexually asymmetric detection ...
Scientific Reports
February 2018
Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a pr...
Scientific Reports
November 2017
Nature of collective decision-making by simple yes/no decision units
Scientific Reports
October 2017
Anomalous diffusion on the servosphere: A potential tool for detecting inherent organis...
PLoS ONE
June 2017
Optimizing mating encounters by sexually dimorphic movements
Journal of The Royal Society Interface
May 2017
Social structure of the polygynous ant, Crematogaster osakensis
Insectes Sociaux
November 2016
Active modification of the environment by a robot with construction abilities
ROBOMECH Journal
April 2015
Designing pheromone communication in swarm robotics: Group foraging behavior mediated b...
Swarm Intelligence
August 2014
Relationship between survivability of ant colony and rate of state transition to rest
December 2013
Lévy walk enhances efficiency of group foraging in pheromone-communicating swarm...
December 2013
ARMS RACE BETWEEN SELFISHNESS AND POLICING: TWO-TRAIT QUANTITATIVE GENETIC MODEL FOR CA...
Evolution
August 2012
Intragenomic conflict over queen determination favours genomic imprinting in eusocial H...
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
February 2012
Collision-Induced “Priority Rule” Governs Efficiency of Pheromone-Communicating Swarm R...
January 2012
Paternally inherited alleles in male body parts of an ant (Diacamma sp.) sex mosaic: im...
Insectes Sociaux
July 2011
Parasitism of adult Poecilus versicolor (Coleoptera: Carabidae) by hymenopteran larvae
The Canadian Entomologist
June 2011
Persistence of the single lineage of transmissible ‘social cancer’ in an asexual ant
Molecular Ecology
December 2010
Increasing Individual Density Reduces Extra-Variance in Swarm Intelligence
January 2010
Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources database 1 January 200...
Molecular Ecology Resources
August 2009
A cheater lineage in a social insect
Communicative & Integrative Biology
March 2009
Cheater genotypes in the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
February 2009
Disturbed Population Genetics: Suspected Introgressive Hybridization between Two Mnais ...
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
August 2005
Dependency by Concentration of Pheromone Trail for Multiple Robots