大场信义博士于1945年出生于日本神奈川。自1975年担任横须贺市“自然人文博物馆”馆长以来，就一直师从自然人文博物馆董事长、世界上著名的研究生物发光体的Haneda博士。1983年研究日本萤火虫通讯系统并取得东京科技大学生理科学博士学位。在日本长期从事萤火虫分类、生态、行为生态学方面的研究，是亚洲萤火虫研究权威，现任日本萤火虫协会名誉理事长及韩国RDA名誉研究员。

人物概述

发表有关萤火虫分类和光通讯方面的论文达100多篇，出版专著16本。曾在日本，特别是东南部岛屿，韩国，台湾，马来西亚，泰国，新加坡，新西兰，新几内亚，美国，斯里兰卡等国家进行萤火虫考察。

现进行的研究方向：

萤火虫的进化

萤火虫的交流系统

萤火虫生态学

萤火虫生境的保护

Research achievement

Books

Nakane T. and Ohba N. 1981. The observation and breeding of fireflies. 121 pages, New Science, Tokyo.

Ohba N. 1986 Communication of fireflies. 241 pages, Tokai University , Japan.

Ohba N. 1986. Genji-firefly. Bunichi Sougou Shuppan, Tokyo.

Ohba N. 1996. Hotaru no Sato(fireflies habitats). 55 pages ,Fureberukan,Tokyo.

Ohba N. 1997. Breeding and observation of the fireflies. Hartshuppan, Tokyo.

Ohba N. 1999. The inhabitant environment of fireflies. Structure of biotope. Ed. Sugiyama K,40-61.Asakurashoten, Tokyo.

Ohba N. 1996. The tree of the firefly. Newton: 90-95.

Original papers

Ohba, N. 1980. Mating behavior of a Japanese Hotaria firefly (Coleoptera :Lampyridae). Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus.,(27): 13-18.

OHBA N. 1983. Studies onthe communication system of Japanese fireflies. Sci.Rept. Yokosuka City Mus.,(30):1-62, pls.1-6.

OHBA N. 1983. Flash communication in Luciola kuroiwae (Coleoptera:Lampyridae). Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus.,(31):1-8.

OHBA N. 1984. Synchronous flashing in the Japanese firefly, Luciola cruciata(Coleoptera:Lampyridae). Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus.,(32):23-33, pl.8.

Ohba, N. 1985. Flash communicatyion in Hotaria tsushimana (Coleoptera:(BLampyridae). Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus.,(33):13-17.

OHBA N. and HIDAKA T. 1991. Reflex bleeding of fireflies and prey-predator relationship. 22th int. ethol. Cofer. Abstract: 31.

OHBA N. and S. SIM 2000. Biological notes and rearing of Lamprigera sp.from West Sumatra(Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus., (47):23-30.

OHBA N. and SIM S.H. 1994. The morphology and life cycle of Pteroptyx valida

(Coleoptera:Lampyridae) in Singapore. Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus.,(42):1-11.

OHBA N. and S. SIM 2000. Biological notes and rearing of Lamprigera sp. from West

Sumatra(Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus., (47):23-30.

OHMIYA Y., SUMIYA M., V. VIVIANI and OHBA N. 2000. Comparative aspects of a luciferase molecule from the Japanese luminous beetle Rhagophthalmus ohbai. Sci. Rept Yokosuka City Mus., (47):31-38.

KOBAYASHI Y., SUZUKI H. and OHBA N. 2001. Formation of a spherical germ rudiment in the glow-worm, Rhagophthalmus ohbai WITTMER(Coleoptera: Rhagophthalmidae), and its phylogenetic implications. Proc. Arthropod. Embryol.Soc. Jpn. 36, 1-5.

SUZUKI H., SATO Y., FUJIYAMA S. and OHBA N.1996.Biochemical systematics of Japanese fireflies of the Subfamily luciolinae and their flash communication systems. Biochemical

Genetics,34(5/6):191-200.

SUZUKI H., SATO Y., FUJIYAMA S. and OHBA N.1996. Allozymic differentiation btween two ecological types of flashing behavior in the Japanese firefly, Luciola cruciata. Japanese Journal Entomology,64 (3):682-691.

WITTMER W. and OHBA N.1994. Neue Rhagophthalmidae(Coleoptera) aus China und benachbarten Landern. Japanese Jour. Ent.,62(2):341-355.

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