Osamu Kishida

TL;DR: The results presented here show that the eDNA metabarcoding approach is also promising even for forest mammal biodiversity surveys, and suggests that MiMammal primers are capable of amplifying and distinguishing a diverse group of mammalian species.

TL;DR: The survival rate of tadPoles of specific phenotypes was higher than that of tadpoles of mismatched or non-induced phenotypes when exposed to predation by the corresponding predators.

TL;DR: Recent studies on inducible morphological plasticity in predators and their prey are reviewed with an emphasis on internal and external constraints and how the nature of predator–prey interactions influences the expression of inducable phenotypes.

TL;DR: A unique and functionally well designed inducible morphological defense strategy where the induction process requires close cues from a predator and such a phenology in the predator–prey interaction allows the evolution of a close-cue detection system and adaptive cost-saving strategies.

TL;DR: This study analyzed how taxonomically and functionally diverse fungi showed correlated fine-scale distributions in soil and led to the working hypothesis that mycorrhizal, endophytic, saprotrophic, and pathogenic fungi could form compartmentalized networks of facilitative, antagonistic, and/or competitive interactions in belowground ecosystems.