Shinji Kasai

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

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

The paper genotypes Aedes aegypti mosquitoes captured in Tokyo airports to infer their origins and assess invasion risks.

The paper develops a target capture sequencing method and analysis pipeline to genotype the full voltage-gated sodium channel gene in mosquitoes, enabling the discovery of novel insecticide resistance mutations.