Naruo NIKOH

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Affiliation: 自然と環境コース, The Open University of Japan

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901081000219370
researchmap Member ID: 6000000808

External link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naruo_Nikoh

Research Areas

Life sciences / Genomics / Symbiotic bacterilal genome
Life sciences / Evolutionary biology / Symbiosis, Lateral gene transfer, Genome, Molecular evolution, Molecular phylogeny

Research History

Apr, 2014 - Present

Professor, Department of Arts and Science, The Open University of Japan

Teaching Experience

Papers

Host's guardian protein counters degenerative symbiont evolution.

Ryuichi Koga, Masahiko Tanahashi, Naruo Nikoh, Takahiro Hosokawa, Xian-Ying Meng, Minoru Moriyama, Takema Fukatsu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(25), Jun 22, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Genome Analysis of "Candidatus Regiella insecticola" Strain TUt, Facultative Bacterial Symbiont of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.

Naruo Nikoh, Tsutomu Tsuchida, Ryuichi Koga, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Takema Fukatsu

Microbiology resource announcements, 9(40), Oct 1, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Serratia symbiotica" Strain IS, a Facultative Bacterial Symbiont of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.

Naruo Nikoh, Ryuichi Koga, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Takema Fukatsu

Microbiology resource announcements, 8(19), May 9, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Exaggeration and cooption of innate immunity for social defense.

Mayako Kutsukake, Minoru Moriyama, Shuji Shigenobu, Xian-Ying Meng, Naruo Nikoh, Chiyo Noda, Satoru Kobayashi, Takema Fukatsu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(18) 8950-8959, Apr 30, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Genomic insight into symbiosis-induced insect color change by a facultative bacterial endosymbiont, “candidatus rickettsiella viridis”

Naruo Nikoh, Tsutomu Tsuchida, Taro Maeda, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Shuji Shigenobu, Ryuichi Koga, Takema Fukatsu

mBio, 9(3), May 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Role of Egr1 on Pancreatic Endoderm Differentiation.

Takako Tsugata, Naruo Nikoh, Tatsuya Kin, Chika Miyagi-Shiohira, Yoshiki Nakashima, Issei Saitoh, Yasufumi Noguchi, Hideo Ueki, Masami Watanabe, Naoya Kobayashi …

Cell medicine, 10 2155179017733177-2155179017733177, 2018
Symbiotic bacteria associated with gut symbiotic organs and female genital accessory organs of the leaf beetle Bromius obscurus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Kayoko Fukumori, Ryuichi Koga, Naruo Nikoh, Takema Fukatsu

Applied Entomology and Zoology, 52(4) 589-598, Nov 1, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Small genome symbiont underlies cuticle hardness in beetles

Hisashi Anbutsu, Minoru Moriyama, Naruo Nikoh, Takahiro Hosokawa, Ryo Futahashi, Masahiko Tanahashi, Xian-Ying Meng, Takashi Kuriwada, Naoki Mori, Kenshiro Oshima …

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 114(40) E8382-E8391, Oct, 2017 Peer-reviewed
A Novel, Extremely Elongated, and Endocellular Bacterial Symbiont Supports Cuticle Formation of a Grain Pest Beetle

Bin Hirota, Genta Okude, Hisashi Anbutsu, Ryo Futahashi, Minoru Moriyama, Xian-Ying Meng, Naruo Nikoh, Ryuichi Koga, Takema Fukatsu

MBIO, 8(5), Sep, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Novel bacteriocyte-associated pleomorphic symbiont of the grain pest beetle Rhyzopertha Dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)

Genta Okude, Ryuichi Koga, Toshinari Hayashi, Yudai Nishide, Xian-Ying Meng, Naruo Nikoh, Akihiro Miyanoshita, Takema Fukatsu

Zoological Letters, 3(1) 13, 2017 Peer-reviewed
DNApod: DNA polymorphism annotation database from next-generation sequence read archives.

Takako Mochizuki, Yasuhiro Tanizawa, Takatomo Fujisawa, Tazro Ohta, Naruo Nikoh, Tokurou Shimizu, Atsushi Toyoda, Asao Fujiyama, Nori Kurata, Hideki Nagasaki …

PloS one, 12(2) e0172269, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Complete Genome Sequence of the Intracellular Bacterial Symbiont TC1 in the Anaerobic Ciliate Trimyema compressum.

Naoya Shinzato, Hiroaki Aoyama, Seikoh Saitoh, Naruo Nikoh, Kazuma Nakano, Makiko Shimoji, Misuzu Shinzato, Kazuhito Satou, Kuniko Teruya, Takashi Hirano …

Genome announcements, 4(5), Sep 22, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Suppression of Bedbug's Reproduction by RNA Interference of Vitellogenin

Minoru Moriyama, Takahiro Hosokawa, Masahiko Tanahashi, Naruo Nikoh, Takema Fukatsu

PLOS ONE, 11(4) e0153984, Apr, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Obligate bacterial mutualists evolving from environmental bacteria in natural insect populations

Takahiro Hosokawa, Yoshiko Ishii, Naruo Nikoh, Manabu Fujie, Nori Satoh, Takema Fukatsu

NATURE MICROBIOLOGY, 1(1) 15011, Jan, 2016 Peer-reviewed
神奈川県に生息するヤマメ集団の遺伝的構造の比較と在来集団生息の可能性の検討

金子裕明, 勝呂尚之, 二河成男

日本生物地理学会会報, 70:131-139, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Riboflavin Provisioning Underlies Wolbachia's Fitness Contribution to Its Insect Host

Minoru Moriyama, Naruo Nikoh, Takahiro Hosokawa, Takema Fukatsu

MBIO, 6(6) e01732-15, Nov, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Insect's intestinal organ for symbiont sorting

Tsubasa Ohbayashi, Kazutaka Takeshita, Wataru Kitagawa, Naruo Nikoh, Ryuichi Koga, Xian-Ying Meng, Kanako Tago, Tomoyuki Hori, Masahito Hayatsu, Kozo Asano …

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 112(37) E5179-E5188, Sep, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Potential Factors for the Differentiation of ESCs/iPSCs Into Insulin-Producing Cells.

Tsugata T, Nikoh N, Kin T, Saitoh I, Noguchi Y, Ueki H, Watanabe M, James Shapiro AM, Noguchi H

Cell medicine, 7(2) 83-93, Feb, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Symbiont-Supplemented Maternal Investment Underpinning Host's Ecological Adaptation

Nahomi Kaiwa, Takahiro Hosokawa, Naruo Nikoh, Masahiko Tanahashi, Minoru Moriyama, Xian-Ying Meng, Taro Maeda, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Shuji Shigenobu, Motomi Ito …

CURRENT BIOLOGY, 24(20) 2465-2470, Oct, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Evolutionary origin of insect-Wolbachia nutritional mutualism

Naruo Nikoh, Takahiro Hosokawa, Minoru Moriyama, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Takema Fukatsu

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 111(28) 10257-10262, Jul, 2014 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

マーダー生物学

藤原晴彦 (Role: Joint translator)

東京化学同人, May, 2021

Research Projects

Analysis of function of endosymbiotic bacteria, Wolbachia, genes on the genome of Monochamus alternatus.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2013

AIKAWA Takuya, ANBUTSU Hisashi, KIKUCHI Taisei, NIKOH Naruo
Exploration of molecular mechanisms underlying the interaction between host insects and symbiotic bacteria and development of basic technology for the application

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2013

ANBUTSU Hisashi, NIKOH Naruo

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