3 papers
q-bio.QM2026
Predator-associated cues promote host riding, and coupling to mobile hosts improves survival in an epizoic limpet
Ryo Nakayama, Tomoyuki Nakano, Keita Harada +1
Epizoic limpets may reduce predation risk by riding mobile gastropod hosts, but the behavioral steps leading to host attachment and the benefits of attachment remain poorly underst…
q-bio.OT2024
Multiple power laws and scaling relation in exploratory locomotion of the snail Tegula nigerrima
Katsushi Kagaya, Tomoyuki Nakano, Ryo Nakayama
One of goals in soft robotics is to achive spontaneous behavior like real organisms. To gain a clue to achieve this, we examined the long (16-hour) spontaneous exploratory locomoti…
q-bio.NC2024
Self-Organized Criticality Explains Readiness Potential
Katsushi Kagaya, Tomoyuki Kubota, Kohei Nakajima
Readiness potential is a widely observed brain activity in several species including crayfish before the spontaneous behavioral initiation. However, it is poorly understood how thi…