Shin‐ichi Nakano

This study identifies biogeographic patterns of freshwater giant viruses using MAGs from deep lakes, revealing cosmopolitan and restricted species, and factors influencing their distribution.

The paper refines a marker-gene-based method to quantify multifunctional redundancy in prokaryotic communities by incorporating non-random extinction scenarios and applying it to aquatic ecosystems.

The paper uses single-cell genomics to analyze virus-host interactions in freshwater bacteria, revealing differences in infection rates and defense strategies between copiotrophs and oligotrophs.