[Peer-Reviewed Publications] (1st- or corresnponding-authored papers: 31)
Ito, Y., S.W. Gale, Nr. Tanaka (in prep.) Reticulation of an aquatic plant, Blyxa (Hydrocharitaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies. PLoS ONE
Ito, Y., S.W. Gale, J. Li, Nr. Tanaka (in prep.) Species delimitation in the aquatic plant genus Monochoria (Pontederiaceae) with description of two new species. Journal of Plant Research
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, et al. (in prep.) Phylogeny of Sparganium (Typhaceae) re-revisited: Molecular species delimitation reveals underestimated diversity in Sparganium erectum s.l. Plant Systematics and Evolution
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka (2023) Phylogeny of Alisma (Alismataceae) revisited: implications for polyploid evolution and
species delimitation. Journal of Plant Research136: 613-629. doi: 10.1007/s00606-021-01797-6
Ito, Y., S.R. Yadav, Y.S. Chang, S. Tagane, P. Li, T. Ohi-Toma (2022) Molecular species delimitation reveals underestimated diversity in the tree genus Nothapodytes (Icacinaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution308: 3. doi: 10.1007/s00606-021-01797-6
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, B.R. Keener, S. Lehtonen (2020) Phylogeny and biogeography of Sagittaria (Alismataceae) revisited: evidence for cryptic diversity and colonization out of South America. Journal of Plant Research133: 827-839. doi: 10.1007/s10265-020-01229-5
Larridon, I., Nr. Tanaka, A. Barfod, S.-K. Cho, S.W. Gale, R. Jobson, Y.-D. Kim, J. Li, A. Mesterhagy, A.M. Muasya, J. Parnell, S. Phillips, A. Prajaksood, P. Souladeth, K. Shuto, S. Tagane, Nb. Tanaka, O. Yano, M. Newman, Y. Ito (2019) First molecular phylogenetic insights into the evolution of Eriocaulon (Eriocaulaceae, Poales). Journal of Plant Research132: 589-600. doi:10.1007/s10265-019-01129-3
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, A.S. Barfod, J. Bogner, J. Li, O. Yano, S.W. Gale (2019) Molecular phylogenetic species delimitation in the aquatic genus Ottelia (Hydrocharitaceae) reveals cryptic diversity within a widespread species. Journal of Plant Research132: 335-344. doi: 10.1007/s10265-019-01109-7
Gale, S.W., S. Duangjai, J. Li, Y. Ito, S. Watthana, P. Termwutthipreecha, S. Suddee (2018) Integrative analyses of Nervilia (Orchidaceae) section Linervia reveal further undescribed cryptic diversity in Thailand. Systematics and Biodiversity16: 377-396. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1415233
Tanaka, Nb., T. Ohi-Toma, Y. Ito, Mu Mu Ang, J. Murata (2018) New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar (10): A new rheophytic Impatiens hukaungensis (Balsaminaceae) from the northern region. Journal of Japanese Botany93: 23-30.
Ito, Y., C. Enju, J. Li, Nr. Tanaka (2018) Evolutionary distinctiveness and conservation priority of the endangered Najas ancistrocarpa (Hydrocharitaceae). Systematics and Biodiversity16: 45-54. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1358219
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, A.S. Barfod, R. Kaul, A.M. Muasya, P. Garcia-Murillo, N. de Vere, B.E.E. Duyfjes, D.C. Albach (2017) From terrestrial to aquatic habitats and back again - Molecular insights into the evolution and phylogeny of Callitriche (Plantaginaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society184: 46-58. doi: 10.1093/botlinnean/box012
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, S.W. Gale, O. Yano, J. Li (2017) Phylogeny of Najas (Hydrocharitaceae) revisited: implications for systematics and evolution. Taxon66: 309-323. doi: 10.12705/662.2
Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, C. Nepi, A. Santangelo, A. Stinca, N. Tanaka, J. Murata (2017) Towards a better understanding of the Ruppia maritima complex (Ruppiaceae): notes on the correct application and typification of the names R. cirrhosa and R. spiralis. Taxon66: 167-171. doi: 10.12705/661.11
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfod, B. Oxelman, A.M. Muasya (2017) Molecular phylogeny of the cosmopolitan aquatic plant genus Limosella (Scrophulariaceae) with a particular focus on the origin of the Australasian L. curdieana. Journal of Plant Research130: 107-116. doi: 10.1007/s10265-016-0872-6
Ito, Y. (2016) Taxonomic notes on the genus Najas (Hydrocharitaceae) in Thailand: addition of N. major and exclusion of N. minor. Thai Forest Bulletin44: 104-107. doi: 10.20531/tfb.2016.44.2.03
Ito, Y., G. Lucio, L. Iharlegui, Nr. Tanaka (2016) Phylogeny of Potamogeton (Potamogetonaceae) revisited: implications for hybridization and introgression in Argentina. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B42: 131-141.
Yano, O., N. Tanaka, Y. Ito (2016) Molecular evidence for a natural hybridization between Isolepiscrassiuscula and I. lenticularis (Cyperaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany54: 433-445. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2016.1205106
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, P. Garcia-Murillo, A.M. Muasya (2016) A new delimitation of the Afro-Eurasian plant genus Althenia (Potamogetonaceae) to include its Australasian relative: evidence from DNA and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution98: 261-270. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.008
Ito, Y., J. Viljoen, Nr. Tanaka, O. Yano, A.M. Muasya (2016) Phylogeny of Isolepis (Cyperaceae) revisited: non-monophyletic nature of I. fluitans sensu lato and resurrection of I. lenticularis. Plant Systematics and Evolution302: 231-238. doi: 10.1007/s00606-015-1253-7
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, C.-K. Kim, R. Kaul, D.C. Albach (2016) Phylogeny of Sparganium (Typhaceae) revisited: non-monophyletic nature of S. emersum sensu lato and resurrection of S. acaule. Plant Systematics and Evolution302: 129-135. doi: 10.1007/s00606-015-1245-7
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, T. Ohi-Toma, J. Murata, A.M. Muasya (2015) Phylogeny of Ruppia (Ruppiaceae) revisited: Molecular and morphological evidence for a new species from Western Cape, South Africa. Systematic Botany40: 942-949. doi: 10.1600/036364415X689988
Ito, Y., Nb. Tanaka (2014) Chromosome studies in the aquatic monocots of Myanmar: A brief review with additional records. Biodiversity Data Journal2: e1069. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1069
Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, A.V. Skriptsova, M. Sasagawa, Nr. Tanaka, J. Murata (2014) Ruppia megacarpa (Ruppiaceae): a new species to the floras of Japan, Korea, and Russia. Botanica Pacifica3: 49-52. doi: 10.17581/bp.2014.03105
Ito, Y., Nb. Tanaka, R. Pooma, Nr. Tanaka (2014) DNA barcoding reveals a new record of Potamogeton distictus and its hybrids, P. distinctus x P. nodosus and P. distinctus x P. wrightii (P. x malainoides) from Myanmar. Biodiversity Data Journal2: e1073. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1073
Ito, Y., J.H. Cota-Sanchez (2014) Distribution and conservation status of Sparganium (Typhaceae) in the Canadian Prairie Provinces. Great Plains Research24: 119-125. doi: 10.1353/gpr.2014.0019
Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, Nb. Tanaka, Nr. Tanaka, J. Murata (2014) New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar (8) Blyxa aubertii var. echinosperma, Lemna trisulca, and Najas tenuis. APG: Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica65: 53-61. PDF
Ito, Y., A.S. Barfod (2014) An updated checklist of aquatic plants of Myanmar and Thailand. Biodiversity Data Journal2: e1019. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1019
Ito, Y. (2013) New records of aquatic plants for the flora of Thailand: Nechamandra alternifolia and Potamogeton octandrus. Thai Forest Bulletin41: 140-144. PDF
Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, J. Murata, Nr. Tanaka (2013) Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of the Ruppia maritima complex focusing on taxa from the Mediterranean. Journal of Plant Research126: 753-762. doi: 10.1007/s10265-013-0570-6
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka (2013) Additional Potamogeton hybrids from China: Evidence from a comparison of plastid trnT-trnF and nuclear ITS phylogenies. APG: Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica64: 15-28. PDF
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka (2011) Hybridisation in a tropical seagrass genus, Halodule (Cymodoceaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies. Telopea13: 219-231. Link
Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, J. Murata, Nr. Tanaka (2010) Hybridization and polyploidy of an aquatic plant, Ruppia (Ruppiaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies. American Journal of Botany97: 1156-1167. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0900168 (featured on cover)
Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, Nb. Tanaka, J. Murata (2009) New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar (3) Caldesia parnassifolia, Nechamandra alternifolia, Potamogeton maackianus and P. octandrus. Journal of Japanese Botany84: 321-329. PDF
Tanaka, Nr., Y. Ito, R. Matsuyama, K. Uehara (2007) Chromosome numbers of Zannichellia L. (Zannichelliaceae) in Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B33: 133-136. PDF
Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, K. Uehara (2007) Inferring the origin of Potamogeton ×inbaensis (Potamogetonaceae) using nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Journal of Japanese Botany82: 20-28. PDF
Yano O, Y. Ito, T. Nishimoto (2016) Chromosome numbers of four aquatic plant species from Okayama Prefectural Nature Conservation Center, Western Japan. Bulletin of Okayama Prefectural Nature Conservation Center23: 13-18. (In Japanese with English Abstract) [矢野興一・伊藤 優・西本 孝 (2016) 岡山県自然保護センターの水生植物4種の染色体数. 岡山県自然保護センター研究報告] PDF
[Conference Papers and Presentations (International)] (Oral: 12 | Poster: 5)
Yu Ito, Chigaya Enjyu, Jie Li, Norio Tanaka. Evolutionary distinctiveness and conservation priority of the endangered Najas ancistrocarpa (Hydrocharitaceae). International Academic Conference on the Formation Mechanism of Plant Diversity in East Asia and Conservation of Endangered Plants Zhejiang, China. June, 2017.
Yu Ito, Stephan W. Gale, Jie Li, Okihito Yano & Norio Tanaka. Species delimitation in aquatic plant genera with description of new species from Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Asia-Pacific Chapter meeting 2017 Xishuangbanna, China. March, 2017. (Oral, B1.4)
Yu Ito, Anders S. Barfod, Josef Bogner, Stephan W. Gale, Jie Li, Okihito Yano & Norio Tanaka. Species delimitation in the aquatic plant genus Ottelia (Hydrocharitaceae) with description of new species. 1st XTBG conference Xishuangbanna, China. December, 2016. (Oral, Y-24)
Yu Ito, Norio Tanaka, Anders S. Barfod, Seong-Hyun Cho, Stephan W. Gale, Richard Jobson, Young-Dong Kim, Isabel Larridon, Jie Li, A. Muthama Muasya, John Parnell, Sylvia Phillips, Amornrat Prajaksood, Kotaro Shuto, Phetlasy Souladeth, Shuichiro Tagane, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Okihito Yano & Mark Newman. Molecular phylogeny of Eriocaulon (Eriocaulaceae). 38th Australasian Systematic Botany Society meeting Alice Springs, Australia. September, 2016. (Oral, 8-36)
Yu Ito. Molecular phylogenetic studies on aquatic vascular plants: A review of issues. International Conference: Problems of taxonomy and geography of aquatic plants Borok, Russia. October, 2015. (Invited lecture)
Yu Ito, Norio Tanaka, Tetsuo Ohi-Toma & Jin Murata. Phylogeny and systematics of the cosmopolitan aquatic genus Ruppia (Ruppiaceae): Implication for conservation. FAPESP - JSPS Joint Research workshop Sao Paulo, Brazil. February, 2015. (Poster)
Yu Ito, Pablo Garcia-Murillo & Norio Tanaka. Redefined ….again! A new delimitation of the genus Althenia (Potamogetonaceae). 36th Australasian Systematic Botany Sosiety meeting Palmerston North, New Zealand. November, 2014. (Oral, Abstract P. 34)
Yu Ito, Dirk C. Albach, A. Muthama Muasya, Bengt Oxelman & Norio Tanaka. Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan aquatic genus Limosella (Scrophulariaceae): a test of the South African origin of an Australasian endemic species. 36th Australasian Systematic Botany Sosiety meeting Palmerston North, New Zealand. November, 2014. (Poster, Abstract P. 42)
Yu Ito, Dirk C. Albach, Robert Kaul, A. Muthama Muasya, Pablo Garcia-Murillo, Norio Tanaka, Natasha de Vere, Brigitta de Wilde & Pieter B. Pelser. Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan aquatic plant, Callitriche (Plantaginaceae). MACROPHYTE2014 Wuhan, China. October, 2014. (Oral, Abstract P. 51)
Yu Ito, Norio Tanaka, Pablo Garcia-Murillo & Pieter B. Pelser. A first glimpse at the phylogeny and biogeography of Zannichellia and allied genera (Potamogetonaceae). JSPS 12th annual meeting Chiba, Japan. March, 2014. (Oral, 1p02)
Yu Ito, Pieter Pelser & Norio Tanaka. Toward the comprehension of the origin of antitropical distributions: A taxonomic review of cool-temperate aquatic plants in Asia and Oceania. JSPS 12th annual meeting Chiba, Japan. March, 2013. (Oral, 1a03)
Yu Ito, Hugo Cota-Sanchez, Changkyun Kim & Norio Tanaka. A phylogenetic view of habitat transitions in the aquatic genus Sparganium (Typhaceae). JSPS 11th annual meeting Osaka, Japan. March, 2012. (Oral, O-14)
Yu Ito. Phylogeny and evolution of aquatic plants, with focus on hybridization and polyploidy. Seminar in University of Vienna Austria. May, 2011. (invited lecture)
Yu Ito. Phylogeny and evolution of aquatic plants, with focus on hybridization and polyploidy. Seminar in Kassel University, Germany November, 2010. (invited lecture)
Yu Ito, Norio Tanaka, Tetsuo Ohi-Toma & Jin Murata. Hybridization and polyploidy of an aquatic plant, Ruppia (Ruppiaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies. East Asian Plant Diversity and Conservation S. Korea, August 2010. (Invited Speaker, S912)
Yu Ito, Norio Tanaka, Tetsuo Ohi-Toma & Jin Murata. Molecular phylogenetic studies on an aquatic plant, Ruppia (Ruppiaceae). The Fourth International Conference: The Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledon Copenhagen, Denmark. August, 2008. (Oral, Abstract P. 31)
Yu Ito, Norio Tanaka, Tetsuo Ohi-Toma & Jin Murata. Phylogenetic studies of an aquatic plant, Ruppia (Ruppiaceae) with reference to the polyploid evolution. 17th Annual Conference of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and International Seminar on Changing Scenario in Angiosperm Systematics Kolhapur, India. November, 2007. (Oral, O2.13)
Yu Ito, Norio Tanaka, Arata Momohara & Koichi Uehara. Conservation study of endangered Potamogeton species in Japan: DNA sequence data allow the differentiation of a hybrid. XVII International Botanical Congress Vienna, Austria. July, 2005. (Poster, P2345)
[Conference Papers and Presentations (Domestic)] (Oral: 3 | Poster: 4)*発表者