Hadal biosphere: insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth T Nunoura, Y Takaki, M Hirai, S Shimamura, A Makabe, O Koide, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (11), E1230-E1236, 2015 | 162 | 2015 |
Microbial diversity in deep-sea methane seep sediments presented by SSU rRNA gene tag sequencing T Nunoura, Y Takaki, H Kazama, M Hirai, J Ashi, H Imachi, K Takai Microbes and Environments, 1204130377-1204130377, 2009 | 88 | 2009 |
Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic, obligately anaerobic and heterotrophic marine Chloroflexi bacterium from a Chloroflexi-dominated microbial community … T Nunoura, M Hirai, M Miyazaki, H Kazama, H Makita, H Hirayama, ... Microbes and environments 28 (2), 228-235, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
Disturbance of deep-sea environments induced by the M9. 0 Tohoku Earthquake S Kawagucci, YT Yoshida, T Noguchi, MC Honda, H Uchida, H Ishibashi, ... Scientific Reports 2 (1), 1-7, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
Molecular biological and isotopic biogeochemical prognoses of the nitrification‐driven dynamic microbial nitrogen cycle in hadopelagic sediments T Nunoura, M Nishizawa, T Kikuchi, T Tsubouchi, M Hirai, O Koide, ... Environmental microbiology 15 (11), 3087-3107, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
The first microbiological contamination assessment by deep-sea drilling and coring by the D/V Chikyu at the Iheya North hydrothermal field in the Mid-Okinawa Trough (IODP … K Yanagawa, T Nunoura, S McAllister, M Hirai, A Breuker, L Brandt, ... Frontiers in microbiology 4, 327, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
Kosmotoga arenicorallina sp. nov. a thermophilic and obligately anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a shallow hydrothermal system occurring within a coral reef, southern part … T Nunoura, M Hirai, H Imachi, M Miyazaki, H Makita, H Hirayama, ... Archives of microbiology 192 (10), 811-819, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
Microbial diversity in sediments from the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the Mariana Trench T Nunoura, M Nishizawa, M Hirai, S Shimamura, P Harnvoravongchai, ... Microbes and environments, ME17194, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
Distribution and niche separation of planktonic microbial communities in the water columns from the surface to the hadal waters of the Japan Trench under the Eutrophic Ocean T Nunoura, M Hirai, Y Yoshida-Takashima, M Nishizawa, S Kawagucci, ... Frontiers in microbiology 7, 1261, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
Microbial community stratification controlled by the subseafloor fluid flow and geothermal gradient at the Iheya North hydrothermal field in the Mid-Okinawa Trough (Integrated … K Yanagawa, A Breuker, A Schippers, M Nishizawa, A Ijiri, M Hirai, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 80 (19), 6126-6135, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
Long-term cultivation and metagenomics reveal ecophysiology of previously uncultivated thermophiles involved in biogeochemical nitrogen cycle S Kato, S Sakai, M Hirai, E Tasumi, M Nishizawa, K Suzuki, K Takai Microbes and environments, ME17165, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
Variance and potential niche separation of microbial communities in subseafloor sediments off S himokita P eninsula, J apan T Nunoura, Y Takaki, S Shimamura, J Kakuta, H Kazama, M Hirai, ... Environmental microbiology 18 (6), 1889-1906, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
Quantitative viral community DNA analysis reveals the dominance of single-stranded DNA viruses in offshore upper bathyal sediment from Tohoku, Japan M Yoshida, T Mochizuki, SI Urayama, Y Yoshida-Takashima, S Nishi, ... Frontiers in microbiology 9, 75, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
Deepest and hottest hydrothermal activity in the Okinawa Trough: the Yokosuka site at Yaeyama Knoll J Miyazaki, S Kawagucci, A Makabe, A Takahashi, K Kitada, J Torimoto, ... Royal Society open science 4 (12), 171570, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
Physiological and genomic features of a novel sulfur-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium belonging to a previously uncultivated symbiotic lineage isolated from a hydrothermal vent T Nunoura, Y Takaki, H Kazama, J Kakuta, S Shimamura, H Makita, ... PLoS One 9 (8), e104959, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
Genome‐enabled metabolic reconstruction of dominant chemosynthetic colonizers in deep‐sea massive sulfide deposits S Kato, T Shibuya, Y Takaki, M Hirai, T Nunoura, K Suzuki Environmental microbiology 20 (2), 862-877, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
Library construction from subnanogram DNA for pelagic sea water and deep-sea sediments M Hirai, S Nishi, M Tsuda, M Sunamura, Y Takaki, T Nunoura Microbes and environments, ME17132, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
Domain‐level identification and quantification of relative prokaryotic cell abundance in microbial communities by micro‐FTIR spectroscopy M Igisu, K Takai, Y Ueno, M Nishizawa, T Nunoura, M Hirai, M Kaneko, ... Environmental Microbiology Reports 4 (1), 42-49, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
Comparative analysis of microbial communities in iron-dominated flocculent mats in deep-sea hydrothermal environments H Makita, S Kikuchi, S Mitsunobu, Y Takaki, T Yamanaka, T Toki, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 82 (19), 5741-5755, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
Defining boundaries for the distribution of microbial communities beneath the sediment-buried, hydrothermally active seafloor K Yanagawa, A Ijiri, A Breuker, S Sakai, Y Miyoshi, S Kawagucci, ... The ISME journal 11 (2), 529-542, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |