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Genomes and Genes | Yoshitomo KikuchiSummaryAffiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Country: Japan Publications
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Efficient Colonization of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris by an Environmentally Transmitted Burkholderia SymbiontYoshitomo Kikuchi
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Hokkaido Center, Sapporo, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 79:2088-91. 2013..Here, we investigated the infective dose of the symbiont by experimental administration. The 50% infective dose was remarkably low, only 80 cells, indicating efficient colonization of the symbiont...- Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugsYoshitomo Kikuchi
Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
BMC Biol 7:2. 2009..We investigated histological, ecological, phylogenetic, and genomic aspects of the unique gut symbiosis of the acanthosomatid stinkbugs... - Specific developmental window for establishment of an insect-microbe gut symbiosisYoshitomo Kikuchi
Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Hokkaido Center, 2 17 2 1 Tsukisamu Higashi, Toyohira, Sapporo 062 8517, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:4075-81. 2011..Potential mechanisms involved in infection competence and possible reasons why the infection preferentially occurs in the 2nd instar are discussed... - An ancient but promiscuous host-symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hostsYoshitomo Kikuchi
Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Hokkaido Center, Sapporo, Japan
ISME J 5:446-60. 2011..Possible mechanisms as to how the environmentally transmitted promiscuous symbiotic association has been stably maintained in the evolutionary course are discussed... - Diversity of Wolbachia endosymbionts in heteropteran bugsYoshitomo Kikuchi
Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310 8512, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:6082-90. 2003.... - Primary gut symbiont and secondary, Sodalis-allied symbiont of the Scutellerid stinkbug Cantao ocellatusNahomi Kaiwa
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:3486-94. 2010..Biological aspects of the primary gut symbiont and the secondary Sodalis-allied symbiont are discussed... - Evolution of symbiotic organs and endosymbionts in lygaeid stinkbugsYu Matsuura
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
ISME J 6:397-409. 2012..The designation 'Candidatus Schneideria nysicola' is proposed for the endosymbiont clade... - Phylogenetic position and peculiar genetic traits of a midgut bacterial symbiont of the stinkbug Parastrachia japonensisTakahiro Hosokawa
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, 1 1 1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305 8566, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:4130-5. 2010..The possibility that the symbiont is involved in uric acid recycling is discussed. The designation "Candidatus Benitsuchiphilus tojoi" is proposed for the symbiont... - Gut symbiotic bacteria of the genus Burkholderia in the broad-headed bugs Riptortus clavatus and Leptocorisa chinensis (Heteroptera: Alydidae)Yoshitomo Kikuchi
Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310 8512, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:4035-43. 2005..chinensis did not form clades but were intermingled in the phylogeny, suggesting that horizontal transmission of the symbiont might have occasionally occurred between populations and species of the bugs... - Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualistTakahiro Hosokawa
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305 8566, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:769-74. 2010.... - Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistanceYoshitomo Kikuchi
Bioproduction Research Institute, Hokkaido Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo 062 8517, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:8618-22. 2012.... - Strict host-symbiont cospeciation and reductive genome evolution in insect gut bacteriaTakahiro Hosokawa
Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
PLoS Biol 4:e337. 2006..Furthermore, comparative analyses of the sister groups, the endocellular Buchnera and the extracellular Ishikawaella, would lead to insights into how the different symbiotic lifestyles have affected their genomic evolution... 
The making of symbiont capsule in the plataspid stinkbug Megacopta punctatissimaTakahiro Hosokawa
Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Tsukuba 305 8566, Japan
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 54:471-7. 2005..Ecological and evolutionary implications of the highly developed, female-specific system for symbiont transmission were discussed...- Obligate symbiont involved in pest status of host insectTakahiro Hosokawa
Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Tsukuba 305 8566, Japan
Proc Biol Sci 274:1979-84. 2007..Our finding sheds new light on the evolutionary origin of insect pests, potentially leading to novel approaches to pest control and management... - Insect-microbe mutualism without vertical transmission: a stinkbug acquires a beneficial gut symbiont from the environment every generationYoshitomo Kikuchi
Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:4308-16. 2007.... - Polyphyly of gut symbionts in stinkbugs of the family CydnidaeTakahiro Hosokawa
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 78:4758-61. 2012..All of the symbionts were species specific, and constituted at least four distinct lineages in the Gammaproteobacteria, indicating multiple evolutionary origins of the gut symbionts among the burrower bugs... - Novel clade of alphaproteobacterial endosymbionts associated with stinkbugs and other arthropodsYu Matsuura
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 78:4149-56. 2012..The designation "Candidatus Lariskella arthropodarum" is proposed for the endosymbiont clade... - How many symbionts are provided by mothers, acquired by offspring, and needed for successful vertical transmission in an obligate insect-bacterium mutualism?Takahiro Hosokawa
Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology AIST, Tsukuba 305 8566, Japan
Mol Ecol 16:5316-25. 2007..These results illuminate several ecological factors that may be relevant to parental and offspring controls over symbiotic resource allocation through host insect generations... - Symbiont acquisition alters behaviour of stinkbug nymphsTakahiro Hosokawa
Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305 8566, Japan
Biol Lett 4:45-8. 2008.... - Endosymbiotic bacteria in the esophageal organ of glossiphoniid leechesYoshitomo Kikuchi
Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 68:4637-41. 2002..The nucleotide compositions of the 16S rRNA gene from the leech symbionts were highly AT biased (53.7%)... - Novel clade of Rickettsia spp. from leechesYoshitomo Kikuchi
Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 68:999-1004. 2002..7% (43 of 44) of T. tagoi leeches and 100% (9 of 9) of H. marginata leeches carried Rickettsia, suggesting that infection with Rickettsia is prevalent in these leeches. This is the first report of Rickettsia found in annelids... 
Laccase2 is required for cuticular pigmentation in stinkbugsRyo Futahashi
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 8566, Japan
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 41:191-6. 2011..These results indicate that laccase2 gene is generally required for cuticular pigmentation in different stinkbug families, highlighting its conserved biological function across diverse insect taxa...- Leeches and their microbiota: naturally simple symbiosis modelsJoerg Graf
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269 3125, USA
Trends Microbiol 14:365-71. 2006..The current knowledge and features of leech biology that promote the investigation of interspecific interactions (host-microbe and microbe-microbe) and their evolution are highlighted... - Interaction between innate immune cells and a bacterial type III secretion system in mutualistic and pathogenic associationsAdam C Silver
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:9481-6. 2007.... - Spatial and temporal population dynamics of a naturally occurring two-species microbial community inside the digestive tract of the medicinal leechYoshitomo Kikuchi
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 N Eagleville Rd, Unit 3125, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:1984-91. 2007..The simplicity, symbiont-symbiont interaction, and mixed microcolonies of this naturally occurring, digestive-tract symbiosis lay the foundation for understanding the more complex communities residing in most animals...