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Yukiko Higa

National Institute of Infectious DiseasesORCID 0000-0002-0920-5307Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Ecology· 1 Evolutionary Biology· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 1

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EcologybioRxivPreprintSep 11, 2026

Contemporary environmental conditions decouple ecological similarity from evolutionary relatedness in vector mosquito communities

Chao Yuh Yang, Yoshihide Maekawa, Shinji Kasai, Yukiko Higa

The paper investigates how environmental conditions affect ecological similarity and evolutionary relatedness in mosquito communities, finding that environmental factors dominate over phylogenetic relatedness.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.09.750309

statistical modelecology & biodiversity

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Evolutionary BiologySciencePeer-reviewedOct 23, 2025

Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

Yuki Haba, Matthew L. Aardema, Maria Odete Alves Marques Carolino Afonso…·Annette Klein

The paper shows that the London Underground Mosquito adapted to human environments aboveground in the Middle East over 1000 years, not recently underground in London.

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statistical model

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NeuroscienceScience AdvancesPeer-reviewedDec 21, 2022

Emergence of hyper insecticide-resistant dengue vectors in Indochina Peninsula: threats of concomitant knockdown resistance mutations

Shinji Kasai, Kentaro Itokawa, Nozomi Uemura…·Osamu Komagata

The paper identifies high-frequency hyper insecticide-resistant mutations in Aedes aegypti from Vietnam and Cambodia, with concomitant mutations showing unprecedented pyrethroid resistance.

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