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21) | Kohda M, Yamanouchi H, Hirata T, Sato S, Ota K (2017) A novel aspect of goby-shrimp symbiosis: Gobies provide droppings in their burrows as vital food for their partner shrimps. Marine Biology. 164: 22. (doi:10.1007/s00227-016-3060-2) |
20) | Takahashi T, Ota K (2016) Body size evolution of a shell-brooding cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29, 2373-2382. (doi:10.1111/jeb.12961) |
19) | Ota K (2016) When to flee? the economics of sneakers facing territorial aggression. Animal Behaviour 114, 181-188. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.009) |
18) | Sogawa S, Ota K , Kohda M (2016) A dear enemy relationship in a territorial cichlid: evidence for the threat-level hypothesis. Behaviour 153, 387-400. (doi:10.1163/1568539x-00003351) |
17) | Ota K, Kohda M (2015) How and to what extent do sneakers gain proximity to females in an externally fertilizing fish? Animal Behaviour 108, 129-136. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.07.029) |
16) | Morita M, Awata S, Yorifuji M, Ota K, Kohda M, Ochi H (2014) Bower-building behaviour is associated with increased sperm longevity in Tanganyikan cichlids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27, 2629-2643. (doi:10.1111/jeb.12522) |
15) | Ota K, Kohda M (2014) Maternal food provisioning in a substrate-brooding African cichlid. PLoS ONE 9, e99094. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099094) |
14) | Ota K, Awata S, Morita M, Yokoyama R, Kohda M. (2014) Territorial males can sire more offspring in nests with smaller doors in a cichlid. Journal of Heredity 105, 416-422. (doi:10.1093/jhered/esu009) |
13) | Ota K, Awata S, Morita M, Kohda M. (2014) Sneak males are not necessarily similar to females in colour in a sexually monochromatic cichlid. Journal of Zoology 293, 63-70. (doi:10.1111/jzo.12125) |
12) | Ota K (2013) Male-male competition for fertilization in a cichlid. In: Kuwamura T, Awata S (eds.) An introduction to behavioral ecology of fishes. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, Japan (ŒK‘ºEˆÀ–[“c•ÒF ‹›—Þs“®¶‘ÔŠw“ü–åC“ŒŠC‘åŠwo”ʼnï). pp 2-33. (In Japanese) |
11) | Ota K, Aibara M, Morita M, Awata S, Hori M., Kohda M (2012) Alternative reproductive tactics in the shell-brooding Lake Tanganyika cichlid Neolamprologus brevis. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2012, 193235. (doi:10.1155/2012/193235) |
10) | Ota K, Hori M, Kohda M (2012) Testes investment along a vertical depth gradient in an herbivorous fish. Ethology 118, 683-693. (doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02056.x) |
9) | Takahashi T, Ota K, Kohda M, Hori M (2012) Some evidence for different ecological pressures that constrain male and female body size. Hydrobiologia 684, 35-44. (doi:10.1007/s10750-011-0961-4) |
8) | Ota K, Hori M, Kohda M (2012) Changes in reproductive life-history strategies in response to nest density in a shell-brooding cichlid Telmatochromis vittatus. Naturwissenschaften 99, 23-32. (doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0864-2) |
7) | Ota K, Kohda M, Hori M, Sato T (2011) Parker's sneak-guard model revisited: why do reproductively parasitic males heavily invest in testes? Naturwissenschaften 98, 837-843. (doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0834-8) |
6) | Ota K, Kohda M (2011) Social status dependent nest choice of territorial males under reproductive parasitism in a Lake Tanganyika cichlid Telmatochromis vittatus. Journal of Fish Biology 78, 700-712. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02872.x)@@@ [featured as Editor's choice] |
5) | Ota K, Kohda M, Sato T (2010) Why are reproductively parasitic males so small?-influence of tactic-specific selection. Naturwissenschaften 97, 1113-1116. (doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0725-4)@@@ [featured by New Scientist, Practical Fishkeeping] |
4) | Ota K, Heg D, Hori M, Kohda, M (2010) Sperm phenotypic plasticity in a cichlid: a territorial malefs counterstrategy to spawning takeover. Behavioral Ecology 21, 1293-1300. (doi:10.1093/beheco/arq146) |
3) | Ota K, Kohda M, Sato T (2010) Unusual allometry for sexual size dimorphism in a cichlid where males are extremely larger than females. Journal of Biosciences 35, 257-265. (doi:10.1007/s12038-010-0030-6)@@@[featured in front cover] |
2) | Ota K, Kohda M (2006) Nest use by territorial males in a shell-brooding cichlid: the effect of reproductive parasitism. Journal of Ethology 24, 91-95. (doi:10.1007/s10164-005-0167-1) |
1) | Ota K, Kohda M (2006) Description of alternative male reproductive tactics in a shell-brooding cichlid, Telmatochromis vittatus, in Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Ethology 24, 9-15. (doi:10.1007/s10164-005-0154-6) |
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