Masaki Mizutani

The paper studies the evolution of insect-Escherichia coli mutualism by analyzing transcriptional changes in bacterial lineages that improve host performance.

This study evolves a minimal genome bacterium to grow at a lower temperature, revealing genetic and non-genetic adaptation mechanisms.

This paper introduces a highly efficient transformation method for the minimal Mycoplasma cell JCVI-syn3B, achieving transformation efficiencies up to 4.4 x 10^-2 with minimal DNA and cell amounts.

This paper reports that Blattabacterium, an endosymbiont of cockroaches, exhibits frequent and asymmetric cell division, unlike other uncultivable symbiotic bacteria.