Associate Professor Katsuhiko Sato and his colleagues in Mathematical and Physical Ethology Laboratory found that nematodes transfer to insects using an electric field. This result provides an important insight into the mystery : how is small organism that slowly crawls on the ground able to spread around the world?
■Published in Current Biology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.042
■Press Release of the research (Hokkaido Univ., Hiroshima Univ.)
Press Release（PDF)
https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2023/07/post-1255.html
■Articles in Newspapers etc
Nihon Keizai Shinbun (2nd Jul.)
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC260FI0W3A620C2000000/
Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun (6th Jul.)
https://www.nikkan.co.jp/articles/view/00678620
Yahoo! News (6th Jul.)
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/f9a7a955fbf7e63e9431bd1350d6f3d4397c8091
Yomiuri Shinbun (31st Jul.)
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/20230730-OYT1T50144/
Hokuriku Chunichi Shinbun (6th Jul.), Hokuriku Chunichi Shinbun (6th Jul.) etc
https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/723452
https://www.sannichi.co.jp/relation/article/yjLl7OSsc6WcWLiSiwWFvs924u3%252F5PrGNOhmNK%252BaYt4%253D
