Lake Biwa Museum

Recent papers from Lake Biwa Museum

1. Does a historical catch record support a stable latent structure in catch composition across ports, taxa, and years? An assessment of cooperative-level catch statistics from Lake Biwa, Japan, 1962–1972PLoS ONE · 2026
2. Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Yamakado Marsh, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, with Descriptions of Two New SpeciesSpecies Diversity · 2026
3. On Stenocypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda) species from Yunnan Province, southwestern China, with a description of a new speciesZooKeys · 2026
4. Repeated adaptation of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius kurodai from lotic to lentic environments in the Kanto Plain, Japan: morphological, behavioural and genetic approachesJournal of Evolutionary Biology · 2026
5. When your posts yield biodiversity findings: social media-facilitated discovery of Eupelmus (Eupelmus) curvator Yang (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae) in Japan with notes on its bionomicsZooKeys · 2026
6. First worldwide record of Ankylocythere sinuosa (Rioja, 1942) (Ostracoda: Podocopida: Entocytheridae) on the marbled crayfish, Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017, with a possible host shift from the invasive red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae)Journal of Crustacean Biology · 2026
7. Contrasting effects of benthic macroinvertebrates on bacterial production in profundal lake sedimentsLimnology · 2026
8. Re-evaluation of the distribution of Monactinus biwaensis based on quantitative morphological analysis of extant and fossil specimensPlankton and Benthos Research · 2026
9. Collection of ITS2 region reference sequences for freshwater fish in the Japanese archipelago for environmental DNA metabarcoding applicationsZooKeys · 2026
10. Genome‐Wide Analysis Successfully Resolves Population Structure Shaped by Recent Divergence in the Endangered Bagrid Catfish Pseudobagrus ichikawaiEcology and Evolution · 2026
11. Non‐Marine Diatom Biostratigraphy Based on Evolutionary Changes of the Genus Praestephanos in the Pliocene Lacustrine Deposits of the Kameyama Formation, Tokai Group, and Its Correlation With the Kobiwako Group, Central JapanIsland Arc · 2026
12. Democratizing reproducible GIS in digital humanities: a workflow-based approach to historical spatial analysis using KNIMEAnnals of GIS · 2026
13. Temporal trends in long coronary chronic total occlusion interventions: the Japanese CTO-PCI expert registryEuropean Heart Journal · 2025
14. Community‐wide epizoochorous interactions revealed from roadkilled mammalsOikos · 2026
15. Epithemia fragarioides sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta): Formal recognition of a diatom widespread across JapanPhycological Research · 2025
16. Insights Into the Comprehensive Carbon Cycle in a Mangrove Ecosystem: A Case Study for Understanding Carbon Burial, Outgassing, and Outwelling in a Subtropical IslandJournal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · 2025
17. Refinement of the novel tank diving test: toward standardized and robust analysis of anxiety-like behavior in zebrafishFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · 2025
18. Nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids reveals a variety of trophic ecology of organisms inhabiting chemosynthesis-based ecosystemsProgress in Earth and Planetary Science · 2025
19. Testing the REVEALS-based vegetation reconstruction around Lake Biwa, western Japan, using absolute pollen productivity estimates derived from the flower counting methodThe Holocene · 2025
20. Terrestrial vegetation and climate patterns during the dark layer depositions in the Japan Sea based on a pollen record from the KR07-12 PC-07 in the last glacial–interglacial cycleProgress in Earth and Planetary Science · 2025