Yuichi Hongoh

High-fidelity long-read metagenomics reveals the metabolic functions of dominant termite gut bacteria

This study uses high-fidelity long-read metagenomics to reconstruct genomes of dominant termite gut bacteria and reveals their lineage-specific metabolic functions.

Discovery and genomics of H2-oxidizing/O2-reducing Deferribacterota ectosymbiotic with protists in the guts of termites and a Cryptocercus cockroach

The paper discovers a new ectosymbiotic clade of Deferribacterota associated with protists in termite and cockroach guts and describes their genomic features and potential ecological roles.

Soil nutrition-dependent dynamics of the root-associated microbiome in paddy rice

The paper examines how soil nutrition affects the root-associated microbiome of rice across seasons and conditions, finding nitrogen-fixing bacteria dominate in non-fertilized fields and a machine learning model can predict soil fertilization status from microbiome data.

Facultative endosymbiosis between cellulolytic protists and methanogenic archaea in the gut of the Formosan termite Coptotermes formosanus

This study identifies a facultative endosymbiotic relationship between methanogenic archaea and cellulolytic protists in termite gut, showing genomic and ecological adaptations to their symbiotic lifestyle.

Mapping-based all-RNA-information sequencing analysis (ARIseq) pipeline simultaneously revealed taxonomic composition, gene expression, and their correlation in an acidic stream ecosystem

The paper introduces ARIseq, a pipeline that simultaneously analyzes rRNA and mRNA to study microbial ecosystems, revealing taxonomic composition, gene expression, and their correlations in an acidic stream.