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I am interested in the taxonomy, phylogeny, reproductive biology, morphology, and evolution of invertebrate animals. The main focus of my research is the order Tanaidacea, a group of tiny aquatic crustaceans, with around 1400 species. However, past or ongoing collaborative projects in taxonomy and phylogeny have dealt with animal groups other than tanaidaceans, including isopods, amphipods, copepods, pycnogonids, nematodes, annelids, nemerteans, and xenoturbellids.

References

• Kakui K (2024) Nectonema horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) parasitic in the Tanner crab Chionoecetes bairdi, with a note on the relationship between host and parasite phylogeny. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 159: 153–157.
  DOI: 10.3354/dao03815

• Kakui K (2024) A new parasitic barnacle (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Rhizocephala, Mycetomorpha) from the abyssal zone in the northwestern Pacific. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100: 385–390.
  DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.120887

• Kakui K, Tsuyuki A (2024) Flatworm cocoons in the abyss: same plan under pressure. Biology Letters 20: 20230506.
  DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0506

• Kakui K, Hiruta C (2023) Differential masculinization of the chelipeds in two simultaneously hermaphroditic Apseudes tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Malacostraca). Zoologischer Anzeiger 305: 23–27.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.05.004

• Kakui K, Hiruta C (2022) Protogynous hermaphroditism in Crustacea: a new example from Tanaidacea. Canadian Journal of Zoology 100: 481–487.
  DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2022-0033