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Species | Naruo NikohSummaryAffiliation: University of the Air Country: Japan Publications
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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...
Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transferNaruo Nikoh
Division of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan
BMC Biol 7:12. 2009..We further examined their expression levels in the bacteriocyte using real-time quantitative RT-PCR...
Bacterial genes in the aphid genome: absence of functional gene transfer from Buchnera to its hostNaruo Nikoh
Department of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan
PLoS Genet 6:e1000827. 2010....
Reductive evolution of bacterial genome in insect gut environmentNaruo Nikoh
Department of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan
Genome Biol Evol 3:702-14. 2011..Our data highlight strikingly similar evolutionary patterns that are shared between the extracellular and endocellular insect symbiont genomes...
Wolbachia genome integrated in an insect chromosome: evolution and fate of laterally transferred endosymbiont genesNaruo Nikoh
Division of Natural Sciences, The University of the Air, Chiba 261 8586, Japan
Genome Res 18:272-80. 2008..These features of the laterally transferred endosymbiont genes are compared with the evolutionary patterns of mitochondrial and plastid genome fragments acquired by nuclear genomes through recent endosymbiotic gene transfers...
