K. Watanabe

The paper develops a culture-independent method to identify numerically dominant unknown bacteria in membrane bioreactors and applies it to three industrial systems, revealing distinct dominant bacterial groups over time.

This study deletes the PM/PGFS gene in mice and finds elevated intraocular pressure, suggesting PM/PGFS regulates prostanoid levels that affect eye pressure.

The paper assesses how gravel bar restoration in a dam-regulated river affects microbial community structure and functional diversity compared to undisturbed tributaries.

This study assesses how reservoir-derived plankton affect stream macroinvertebrates in different habitats, finding lower trophic contributions in lentic habitats compared to lotic ones.

This paper develops a FISH method to directly detect mRNA in microbial cells at the single-cell level without reverse transcription, applicable to both gram-negative and gram-positive microbes.

The paper integrates single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility analysis to identify novel regulatory elements in mouse mammary epithelial cells and their differentiation states.

The paper shows that introducing Clostridium scindens into the gut microbiota epigenetically alters bone marrow and provides protection against Entamoeba histolytica infection.

The paper shows how feedback loops between Plk4, STIL, and HsSAS6 coordinate procentriole formation during centriole duplication.

This study identifies OVOL2 as a key factor that induces mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition in fibroblasts and enhances reprogramming to epithelial lineages.

This study examines the fine-scale genetic structure of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the Philippines and finds a positive correlation between genetic inbreeding and local dengue incidence.

The paper reports higher seroprevalence of Entamoeba histolytica compared to HIV-1 and syphilis in a Tokyo VCT center, with risk factors including male sex, older age, and syphilis positivity.

The paper investigates the diversification timing and biogeography of the Nemouridae family in the Japanese Archipelago using molecular data, finding diversification events linked to geological history.

This study compares DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification for assessing stream macroinvertebrate biodiversity, finding metabarcoding comparable and more sensitive than morphology.

The paper detects Wolbachia in field-collected Ae. aegypti mosquitoes using PCR markers, finding 16.8% infected by wsp and 13.2% by 16S rDNA, with most sequences aligning to supergroup B.